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Litigation Support | Document Capture
EARLY CASE ASSESSMENT - YOU'VE HEARD THE BUZZ WORDS.
You talked to 15 more people. You got 50 different answers. Now you have 10 new eDiscovery projects, all presenting unique challenges.
So what does Early Case Assessment (ECA) actually mean to you, your firm, and your client?
Join nationally known eDiscovery experts Tom O'Connor and Chuck Kellner, along with Chris Smith, Senior Product Manager at Anacomp in a live webinar that addresses:
- What is ECA? Perspectives from Then and Now
- The Goals
- Measurement and Management
- ECA as a Managed Process
- Achieving the Desired Outcome: How ECA Supports the Other eDiscovery Phases
Find out how a process-based ECA approach can be customized to address your specific case goals.
TIGHT DEADLINE. A CASE LIKE NO OTHER. SOUND FAMILIAR?
In managing eDiscovery, today's attorneys and litigation support professionals face challenges of time, cost, defensibility and diversion of valuable resources from core business activities.
With the hope that technology solutions will save the world, many litigation teams quickly learned that they had to work the case around the technology, instead of the other way around. Hope is not a strategy.
Attend our on-demand webinar that draws from experiences of many real-life cases.
This session will focus on document review and specifically address
- Real-world challenges litigation teams still face, despite their technology investments
- Best practices from cases that have simplified the eDiscovery process and reduce demands on internal resources
- How to get more out of your eDiscovery technology investments and achieve your eDiscovery legal goals
No two cases are created alike, and so why not make the workflow adjust for the case?
LEVERAGING EARLY CASE ASSESSMENT TO SLASH EDISCOVERY TIME, COST AND RISK
How Can Early Case Assessment (ECA) Empower Law Firms and Corporate Counsel Departments Gain Initial Case Insight and Determine Optimal Strategies?
Early case assessment (ECA) can mean different things to different stakeholders. Yet the ability to gain early insight into the facts of a case, determine case strategy, and predict, control and minimize time, costs and risks is considered by many law firms and corporate general counsel departments as the "Holy Grail" of the litigation process.
But ECA is not solved by the proverbial silver bullet... and can't be completely addressed by a software solution alone. Instead, approaching ECA as a process, and leveraging the right combination of consulting services enabled by proven technologies is right one for meeting the challenges of ECA.
Moderated by Tom O'Connor (Director, Legal Electronic Document Institute) and featuring veteran legal technology consultant Chuck Kellner (Vice President, eDiscovery Consulting, Anacomp) and Chris Smith (Senior Product Manager, Anacomp), this session will describe ECA strategies litigators can use to:
- Leverage the metrics, methods and technologies to make optimal decisions around case strategy and budgets.
- Utilize defensible search methodologies to reduce the volume of electronically stored information (ESI) required for review.
- Make smart, budget-conscious decisions about what to review and how to negotiate the scope of data discovery.
- Reduce unnecessary capital expenditures and eliminate spends typically made under tight deadlines or resource constraints.
- Bring predictable, reasonable costs to electronic data discovery processes.
HOW TO LEVERAGE MODERN LITIGATION SUPPORT PLATFORMS
Is Your Litigation Support System Stuck in the 80's?
Some of today's popular litigation support systems were designed and built back when Milli Vanilli was still riding high on the charts.
Such systems have attempted to keep up with the times, but, due to their architectures, they typically remain difficult to use, unable to manage large volumes of data, or can't handle certain document types or foreign languages. In fact, many users of such systems acknowledge these faults, but continue to use them mostly because that's what they've "always used," or they believe that migrating to a new platform would be difficult or expensive to do.
But leveraging the latest litigation technology does not call for a drastic "rip and replace" of your existing technologies. Instead a migration and/or co-exist strategy can
- Be painless to an organization
- Provide uninterrupted litigation process support
- Easily transfer data back and forth
- Allow users to continue leveraging the features of their legacy system
- Be cost effective
- Lead to rapid litigation process acceleration
Moderated by renowned litigation consultant Tom O'Connor (Director, Legal Electronic Document Institute) and presented by Mandi Ross (CEO & Managing Director, Prism Litigation Technology) and Jeff Friedman (Senior Product Manager, Anacomp), this webinar answers the following questions:
- What are the limitations of older litigation support systems?
- What can modern litigation support platforms do that legacy systems can't?
- How can my firm or legal department migrate to or co-exist with a next-generation platform?
- What are the best practice paths and processes to do so?
- What firms have done so, and what can I learn from them?
- How can data be converted and shared from one system to another?
- How can I maximize my success with a new platform?
ENABLING INFORMATION COOPERATION IN EDISCOVERY
eDiscovery requires more than just making sense of large amounts of data. It demands cooperation between corporate and outside counsel, opposing counsel, third parties and judges. The costs and penalties for mismanaging access to information are higher than ever. Cooperation is not only required by the FRCP, and is essential in avoiding costly disputes, additional motions and possible obstruction charges.
Join legal experts Tom O'Connor and Chuck Kellner to learn:
- What cooperation is and how to align it with client advocacy
- Sedona's plea and recent decisions mandating cooperation
- What you need to know about your – or your client's – data
- How to maximize meet-and-confer to serve client interests and minimize discovery costs
- The role of early case assessment in enabling cooperation, client advocacy and cost controls
- How technology can bridge the digital divide to automate and streamline information sharing
Tom O'Connor is is Director of the Legal
Electronic Document Institute and a nationally known consultant, speaker and
writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems.
Chuck Kellner is Vice President of eDiscovery Consulting at
Anacomp and a recognized expert, consultant and CLE trainer on the preservation,
collection, search, and production of electronic data used in litigation,
mergers and acquisitions and government investigations.
WEBINAR: HOW TO PURCHASE LITIGATION SUPPORT SOFTWARE
Many in the legal community remain confused about how to choose litigation support solutions. You know you need to accelerate litigation processes, but how and where do you begin?
Join legal expert Tom O'Connor from the Legal Electronic Document Institute to learn
- The steps to take when evaluating a solution
- The criteria to consider when making a purchasing decision
- How to maximize success of the chosen solution
Tom will describe how some firms have gone through the process – the mistakes they made and the lessons they learned.
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Tom O'Connor is an attorney and a nationally known independent consultant in the area of computerized litigation support systems. A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom is on the faculty of several national CLE providers and has written two books on the subject. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and is currently engaged in an ongoing reconstruction effort with the legal community in New Orleans.
DISCOVER WHY HOSTED LITIGATION SUPPORT SOLUTIONS MAKE MORE SENSE THAN EVER.
Allow legal expert Tom OConnor, from the Legal Electronic Document Institute, teach you:- How to maximize the benefits of an on-demand, hosted litigation support solution
- How leading law firms and general counsel departments are benefitting from such solutions
- How to evaluate hosted litigation support solutions
Join Tom and Jeff Friedman, Senior Product Manager at Anacomp, and gain real-world insight into how hosted litigation support solutions
- Are rapidly deployed
- Reduce costs and risks
- Save users from having to scale and staff litigation projects for peak utilization
- Allow legal teams to focus on their core competencies
RECENT RULINGS IMPLICATIONS ON EDISCOVERY
There have been several recent decisions that impact mandates on the collection and preservation of electronically stored information (ESI) under the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP).
Such cases include:
- Victor Stanley v. Creative Pipe
- U.S. v. O'Keefe
- Equity Analytics v. Lundin
- White v. Graceland College
- Goodbys Creek v. Arch Insurance
- Mancia v. Mayflower Textile
Rulings on these cases and others significantly affect the use of PDFs, TIFFs, and various search techniques.
Join renowned litigation consultant Tom
O'Connor (Director of the Legal
Electronic Document Institute, LEDI) and
top litigator Browning E. Marean
(Partner, DLA Piper) to learn how these
rulings affect your eDiscovery
processes.
Featured Speakers: Browning E. Marean,Partner, DLA Piper and Technology Guru; Tom O'Connor-Director-Legal Electronic Document Institute Read Bio...
Browning E. Marean is a partner in DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary's San Diego
Downtown office. He is a member of the firm's Litigation Group. Mr. Marean
specializes in the areas of complex business litigation, technology matters,
professional responsibility, and knowledge management. Mr. Marean is
admitted to practice in California and Texas. Mr. Marean joined the firm
(then Gray Cary Ames & Frye) in 1969. He is a member of Dla Piper Rudnick
Gray Cary's Technology Committee and Professional Standards Committee, and
acts as attorney to the firm on ethical issues. He is a member of the San
Diego County Bar Associatiion Ethics Committee.
Mr. Marean is a frequent lecturer on various topics including computer
technology and its application to efficient practice and matter management,
risk and decision analysis, legal ethics issues, director and officer
liability, emerging securities fraud developments and knowledge management.
Mr. Marean received his law degree from the University of California,
Hastings College of Law in 1969 and his undergraduate degree from Stanford
University.
Tom O'Connor is an attorney and a nationally known independent consultant in
the area of computerized litigation support systems. A frequent lecturer on
the subject of legal technology, Tom is on the faculty of several national
CLE providers and has written two books on the subject. He is a Fellow of
the American Bar Foundation and is currently engaged in an ongoing
reconstruction effort with the legal community in New Orleans.
THE ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF WORKING WITH ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY WITH TOM O'CONNOR AND BROWNING MAREAN
In this information-packed Webinar, Tom and Browning discuss:
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The most common mistakes that lawyers who end up in hot ethical water make its just as important to know what not to do as it is to know what to do.
How to handle metadata in discovery documentseven seemingly harmless metadata such as the name of the person who created the document may be a confidential fact that should not be revealed.
Why the roles of general counsel and outside counsel differ may conflict with regard to processing ESI, especially with regards to Early Case Assessment.
How to manage consultants and vendors who assist you with your casesLearn about their fiduciary obligations, supervision of subcontracted services (especially overseas), conflicts of interest, and billing considerations.
Role technology can play in helping you to avoid these pitfalls.
-Bryan Briggs, Practice Support Specialist Holme Roberts & Owen LLP
"Thanks so much for organizing today's webinar on Ethics and E-Discovery. I really liked getting the up-to-the-minute "late-breaking news" from your speakers. Keep up the good work!"
-Ken Withers, Director, Judicial Education and Content The Sedona Conference
Featured Speaker: Browning E. Marean,Partner, DLA Piper and Technology Guru Read Bio...
Browning E. Marean is a partner in DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary's San Diego
Downtown office. He is a member of the firm's Litigation Group. Mr. Marean
specializes in the areas of complex business litigation, technology matters,
professional responsibility, and knowledge management. Mr. Marean is
admitted to practice in California and Texas. Mr. Marean joined the firm
(then Gray Cary Ames & Frye) in 1969. He is a member of Dla Piper Rudnick
Gray Cary's Technology Committee and Professional Standards Committee, and
acts as attorney to the firm on ethical issues. He is a member of the San
Diego County Bar Associatiion Ethics Committee.
Mr. Marean is a frequent lecturer on various topics including computer
technology and its application to efficient practice and matter management,
risk and decision analysis, legal ethics issues, director and officer
liability, emerging securities fraud developments and knowledge management.
Mr. Marean received his law degree from the University of California,
Hastings College of Law in 1969 and his undergraduate degree from Stanford
University.
IS THE BATES STAMP STILL DEAD?
Join top litigator Browning Marean III of DLA Piper and world-renowned legal consultant Tom O'Connor for part deux of their riveting discussion on the docNative Paradigm and it's impact on the world of eDiscovery.
Featured Speaker: Browning E. Marean,Partner, DLA Piper and Technology Guru Read Bio...
Browning E. Marean is a partner in DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary's San Diego
Downtown office. He is a member of the firm's Litigation Group. Mr. Marean
specializes in the areas of complex business litigation, technology matters,
professional responsibility, and knowledge management. Mr. Marean is
admitted to practice in California and Texas. Mr. Marean joined the firm
(then Gray Cary Ames & Frye) in 1969. He is a member of Dla Piper Rudnick
Gray Cary's Technology Committee and Professional Standards Committee, and
acts as attorney to the firm on ethical issues. He is a member of the San
Diego County Bar Associatiion Ethics Committee.
Mr. Marean is a frequent lecturer on various topics including computer
technology and its application to efficient practice and matter management,
risk and decision analysis, legal ethics issues, director and officer
liability, emerging securities fraud developments and knowledge management.
Mr. Marean received his law degree from the University of California,
Hastings College of Law in 1969 and his undergraduate degree from Stanford
University.
BEYOND THE BATES STAMP: HOW LAW FIRMS ARE REINVENTING DISCOVERY
Please join top-litigator Browning Marean III and world-renowned consultant Tom O'Connor for a riveting discussion on the death of the Bates Stamp. Native or TIFF-you make the call!
Featured Speakers: Browning E. Marean,Partner, DLA Piper and Technology Guru; Tom O'Connor-Director-Legal Electronic Document Institute Read Bio...
Browning E. Marean is a partner in DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary's San Diego
Downtown office. He is a member of the firm's Litigation Group. Mr. Marean
specializes in the areas of complex business litigation, technology matters,
professional responsibility, and knowledge management. Mr. Marean is
admitted to practice in California and Texas. Mr. Marean joined the firm
(then Gray Cary Ames & Frye) in 1969. He is a member of Dla Piper Rudnick
Gray Cary's Technology Committee and Professional Standards Committee, and
acts as attorney to the firm on ethical issues. He is a member of the San
Diego County Bar Associatiion Ethics Committee.
Mr. Marean is a frequent lecturer on various topics including computer
technology and its application to efficient practice and matter management,
risk and decision analysis, legal ethics issues, director and officer
liability, emerging securities fraud developments and knowledge management.
Mr. Marean received his law degree from the University of California,
Hastings College of Law in 1969 and his undergraduate degree from Stanford
University.
Tom O'Connor is an attorney and a nationally known independent consultant in the area of computerized litigation support systems. A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom is on the faculty of several national CLE providers and has written two books on the subject. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and is currently engaged in an ongoing reconstruction effort with the legal community in New Orleans.
TOP LITIGATOR BROWNING E. MAREAN III OF DLA PIPER SHARES HIS
HIGHLY-REGARDED CHECKLIST ON EDISCOVERY PROJECT MANAGEMENT
THE LITIGATOR'S SECRET HANDBOOK...
Browning E. Marean III, a partner at DLA Piper, is a
giant in the world of litigation, especially the burgeoning
field of electronic discovery. He serves as co-chair of DLA
Pipers Electronic Discovery Readiness and Response Group.
Browning has distilled a good deal of his knowledge about
managing cases involving eDiscovery into a checklist,
Discovery Project Management Template. Okay, so Browning
hasnt given his checklist a glamorous name, but the
information is pure gold. While you can find Brownings
checklist in book form, weve put together a free
alternative for you.
On April 29, 2008, we hosted Browning sharing many of his
tips in a Webinar, The Litigators Secret Handbook.
Don't miss this opportunity to listen to Browning set forth
the 47 tasks he considers in every case from the initial
meeting with your client to the disposition of the
electronic data used in the case after it closes.
To watch the presentation online:
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Click here to download the recording
Featured Speaker: Browning E. Marean,Partner, DLA Piper and Technology Guru Read Bio...
Browning E. Marean is a partner in DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary's San Diego
Downtown office. He is a member of the firm's Litigation Group. Mr. Marean
specializes in the areas of complex business litigation, technology matters,
professional responsibility, and knowledge management. Mr. Marean is
admitted to practice in California and Texas. Mr. Marean joined the firm
(then Gray Cary Ames & Frye) in 1969. He is a member of Dla Piper Rudnick
Gray Cary's Technology Committee and Professional Standards Committee, and
acts as attorney to the firm on ethical issues. He is a member of the San
Diego County Bar Associatiion Ethics Committee.
Mr. Marean is a frequent lecturer on various topics including computer
technology and its application to efficient practice and matter management,
risk and decision analysis, legal ethics issues, director and officer
liability, emerging securities fraud developments and knowledge management.
Mr. Marean received his law degree from the University of California,
Hastings College of Law in 1969 and his undergraduate degree from Stanford
University.
TOP FIVE E-DISCOVERY ROADBLOCKS AND HOW TO OVERCOME THEM
Have you encountered any of these roadblocks in your cases during discovery?
- Documents in languages other than English.
- Review software that requires you to convert documents into TIFF format.
- Too many documents to review in too little time. And from your clients perspective, skyrocketing review costs.
- Incomplete or missing metadata either because it was inadvertently destroyed or because your litigation software isnt up to the task.
- Litigation software thats difficult to learn and, therefore, difficult to use.
HOW TO OVERCOME THESE E-DISCOVERY ROADBLOCKS
In this Webinar, youll not only learn about the following, but see actual examples:
- Unicode Compatibility: See how this new standard makes it easy to process documents in any language.
- Native File Review: See how using files in their native format saves time vis-a-vis TIFF conversion and enhances your evidentiary foundation among other benefits.
- Review Tips: See a number of nifty document review shortcuts such as the removal of duplicates and near duplicates that can save you time and your clients moneyand hopefully persuade your clients to send more cases to you.
- Handling Metadata: See how to safely preserve, extract, and review metadatawithout an expensive consultant.
- Ease of Use: Well perform all of the above demonstrations using the new CaseLogistix 5.2. You can judge for yourself whether its as intuitive and easy to use as we claim.
If youre a litigator, in-house counsel, litigation paralegal or legal IT professional, we urge you to watch this Webinar now.
Featured Speaker: Allan Long, Sales Engineer, Anacomp Read Bio...
Allen Long, one of Anacomp's Professional Litigation Engineers, has spent
more than ten years providing technical and management expertise in
professional services, systems design and pre sales solution consulting. He
has a proven track record of utilizing technology to streamline processes
and manage complex sale environments in excess of $5 million. Allen has
demonstrated many successes including prestigious industry leaders such as
Xerox and Ricoh Corporation. He has managed startup organizations, as well
as re-engineered unprofitable business groups. He has mastered network and
systems technology environments including Microsoft, Novell, Mac and UNIX
platforms.
AUDIO FILES: THE NEXT FRONTIER IN ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY
Time to Brush Up on the Hearsay Rule. Here's Why! Whether you like his novels or not, Michael Crichton deserves credit for always being ahead of the technology curve. In "Disclosure," he himself may not have realized just how far ahead he was. In the novel (and film), which fittingly takes place in the offices of a technology company, an answering machine message plays a pivotal role in a sexual harassment lawsuit. With electronic discovery well established in the world of written documents, the next frontier lies in audio recordings, including everything from old school analog answering machines like the one in Disclosure to modern voice mail systems to call center recordings (this call may be recorded for quality purposes) to IP-based conference calls, and much more. But even if you receive a hot tip on some audio files during discovery, does your client have the time and resources to pay for their transcription?
LEARN HOW TO FIND THE SMOKING GUN IN AUDIO FILES...
Here's what you'll learn:
- Where to look for audio recordings during discovery.
- A comparison of traditional solutions such as transcription (both human and computerized) with newer technologies such as "high-speed phonetic audio search."
- A demonstration of keyword searches using the newer technologies, and an explanation as to what makes them accurate.
- The impact of unified messaging systems such as Microsoft Exchange 2007, which handle email, fax, and voice mail.
- Current case law and regulations in this area.
Featured Speaker: Tom O'Connor, Director, Legal Electronic Document Institute Read Bio...
Tom O'Connor is an attorney and a nationally known independent consultant in the area of computerized litigation support systems. A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom is on the faculty of several national CLE providers and has written two books on the subject. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and is currently engaged in an ongoing reconstruction effort with the legal community in New Orleans.
GET OFF THE PAPER CHASE! BEST PRACTICES IN OUTSOURCED DOCUMENT
CAPTURE FOR THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND INSURANCE INDUSTRIES
Discover how document capture positively impacts the
bottom line for businesses like yours. From customer and
credit applications to invoices and claims processing,
document capture is used by retail banks and brokerage firms
as well as insurance and mutual fund firms to accelerate
business processes.
Review the benefits to your business during this informative
webinar:
- Save time searching for documents
- Save money on document storage
- Process applications faster and more accurately
A wealth of options available to banks and financial services companies with regard to document capture. This webinar provides information on how to:
- Expedite processing paper in your organization
- Integrate critical data
- Identify if your organization is ready to implement document capture processes
Featured Speaker: Forrester Senior Analyst Craig Le Clair. Read Bio...
Craig Le Clair is a leading expert on information management and enterprise content management (ECM), with a specific focus on electronic forms, document imaging, document management and document-centric BPM. He brings a wealth of knowledge to Forrester through his 20 years experience in IT and enterprise content management. A veteran technology executive, Craig was a vice president at ADP, a co-founder of docHarbor and has held senior positions with several document management providers during the past 15 years. He is deeply experienced in the software industry, having authored How To Succeed In The Enterprise Software Market, which was released in 2005.
ACCELERATE BUSINESS PROCESSES WITH OUTSOURCED DOCUMENT CAPTURE
SERVICES
If you're like most paper-intensive or transaction-based businesses, you may be already utilizing some sort of document scanning or imaging for archival or backfile conversion purposes. But the state of document capture technology today enables for automated, day-forward document processing for accelerated business processes, reduced costs, improved customer service and enabled regulatory compliance
And the good news: such benefits are available to you via on-demand capture-as-a-service, saving you from costly and timely software implementations, expensive updates, utilizing your precious IT resources - allowing you to focus on your core competencies and expand your business.
This webinar will describe document capture: what it is, how it can be
utilized for maximum advantage, how leading companies are benefiting and why
outsourcing such capabilities makes sense within today's IT environments.
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Featured Speaker: Forrester Senior Analyst Craig Le Clair Read Bio...
Craig Le Clair is a leading expert on information management and enterprise content management (ECM), with a specific focus on electronic forms, document imaging, document management and document-centric BPM. He brings a wealth of knowledge to Forrester through his 20 years experience in IT and enterprise content management. A veteran technology executive, Craig was a vice president at ADP, a co-founder of docHarbor and has held senior positions with several document management providers during the past 15 years. He is deeply experienced in the software industry, having authored How To Succeed In The Enterprise Software Market, which was released in 2005.