eDiscovery in 2013: What You Need to Know
Overview:
As companies increasingly rely on discovery to manage their data, complex problems arise in data security from the threats of cyber-attack, social media, rogue employees and other external forces.
It’s time to consider changing your current strategy to minimize costs and to mitigate risks. Join this LIVE webcast to be in the know with respect to the very latest issues surrounding eDiscovery. In addition to laying out a most systematic eDiscovery and records management programs, the webcast faculty will also examine the most significant issues in the mix including:
- Technology-Assisted Review and “Predictive Coding”
- Rules and Ethics regarding key words searches in E-Discovery
- Identifying and Preserving ESI
- Data Breaches, Notification Duties and Legal Liability
- Cost -Sharing Ruling and Cost Recovery
- Drafting outsourcing agreements
- Up-to-the-minute regulatory updates and compliance
Agenda:
SEGMENT 1:
Tonya R. Deem, Partner,
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Identifying and Preserving ESI
-Identify, locate, and maintain evidence that:
- What is the Obligation?
- A party knows, or should know, is reasonably likely to be “relevant” to specific, predictable, and identifiable litigation
- May lead to the discovery of admissible evidence
- May be subject to a future discovery request
- When does the duty arise?
- -Easy cases:
-“Reasonable anticipation of litigation”
- When a complaint is served/filed
- When a government proceeding is initiated
- When a subpoena is received
- -Easy cases:
- What Evidence Must Be Preserved?
- Evidence that you reasonably believe to be relevant and discoverable
- Consider the nature of the issues in dispute, the accessibility of the information, the probative value of the information, and the relative burdens and cost of the preservation effort
- What is the Goal of Preservation?
- Mitigate risk
- Mitigate distractions
- The EDRM preservation flowchart
- Preservation Steps and Timeline:
- Engage the case team and the client
- Collectively develop a defined and intentional preservation strategy:
- Identify what type of information is likely to be relevant and discoverable
- Identify the potential data sources
- Determine reasonable accessibility
- Suspend Destruction
- Identify the client’s recycling programs/policies
- Evaluate what recycling needs to be suspended
- Prepare the Plan and Select the Preservation Method
- Several options and considerations
- Be aware of privilege issues
- Execute the Preservation Plan
- Litigation Hold notice—written vs. verbal?
- Effective hold notices:
- Clearly communicate the scope and need
- Are in an appropriate form for the audience
- Are specific
- Identify challenges to preservation
- Are reviewed and reissued
- Are monitored
- Are broadly disseminated
- Document:
- Who
- Why
- When
- What
- Compliance
- Monitor the Preservation
- Both in-house and outside counsel have an obligation to take reasonable steps to monitor compliance with discovery obligations:
- Identifying the sources of potentially relevant information
- Preserving the information
- Collecting the information for production
- Counsel must become fully familiar with his client’s retention policies and IT architecture
- Collaborate with IT
- Coordinate with key custodians
- Counsel must take reasonable steps to ensure that the client is in fact retaining potentially relevant evidence
- What is the Obligation?
SEGMENT 2:
A. David Fawal, Partner
Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens and Cannada, PLLC
ESI Preservation and Collection – Best Practices
- Federal requirements
- Managing Custodian Interview and Collection
- Recent examples of consequences for inadequate preservation
SEGMENT 3:
Caroline Walters, Attorney,
McKool Smith Hennigan
- Efficient collection of electronic evidence..
- Potential difficulties to the collection of electronic evidence arising from the Stored Communications Act.
SEGMENT 4:
Cass W. Christenson, Partner,
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
- Cooperation between counsel: new expectations and opportunities
- Demystifying proportionality and making it part of your e-discovery plan
- Incorporating cost-shifting principles into your e-discovery strategy
SEGMENT 5:
Patrick X. Fowler, Partner,
Snell & Wilmer LLP
- Competence (don’t conduct e-discovery if you have no idea what you are doing)
- Communications (Keeping the client reasonably informed about the status of the matter and its obligations)
- Diligence/expediting litigation (you need to act in a timely manner both in obtaining e-discovery and responding to e-discovery)
- Fairness to opposing party and counsel (do not obstruct access to or spoliate evidence; do not make frivolous requests/responses)
- Respecting the rights of others (avoiding overly broad, burdensome, harassing subpoenas or inappropriate collection methods of social media information)
Who Should Attend:
- eDiscovery Attorneys
- General Counsel
- Private companies
- Public companies
- C-Level
- Legal Officers
- In-house Lawyers
- Senior Management
- Chief Information Officers
- Computer Forensic Specialists
- E-discovery Lawyers
- Privacy & Data Management Officers
- Records & Information Directors/Managers
- Litigation officers
- Litigation Support Specialists
- Compliance, Risk and IT Managers
Tonya Deem is a litigator with trial, appellate and arbitration experience, representing both established companies and emerging companies in a …
A. David Fawal is in Butler Snow’s Commercial Litigation Group and located in the firm’s Birmingham office. AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, …
Caroline Walters is an attorney at the Los Angeles office of McKool Smith Hennigan. Her practice focuses on the defense …
Cass Christenson is a partner in the Washington office of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, and represents clients in state …
Patrick Fowler is a partner in the Phoenix, Arizona office of Snell & Wilmer. Pat chairs his firm’s Electronic Discovery …
Course Level:
Intermediate
Advance Preparation:
Print and review course materials
Method of Presentation:
On-demand Webcast (CLE)
Prerequisite:
NONE
Course Code:
114220
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NY Category of CLE Credit:
Total Credits:
2.0 CLE
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About Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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Founded in 1938, Snell & Wilmer is a full-service business law firm with more than 400 attorneys practicing in nine locations throughout the western United States and in Mexico, including Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; Los Angeles and Orange County, California; Denver, Colorado; Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Los Cabos, Mexico.
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