Best Practices Navigating the Dynamic ESI Landscape, eDiscovery Technologies and Strategies for your Practice
eDiscovery is continuously evolving with each new year adding layers of complexity. Beyond the exponential year-over-year growth of Electronically Stored Information (ESI), the sources of ESI continue to diversify. Attorneys failing to stay up to date on the quickly evolving landscape risk missing evidence, wasting money and losing cases. This webinar provides an overview of the new and emerging challenges lawyers will face in 2020 as well as describing solutions for those willing to stay ahead of the curve.
Agenda
eDiscovery continues to evolve
Data is different
Legal hold management
Cloud-based solutions
Predictive coding
Structured data
Privilege and production
Big data analysis
Case closure
Legacy data
Speakers
Robert Keeling, Partner, Sidley Austin, LLP
Robert Keeling is an experienced litigator whose practice includes a special focus on electronic discovery matters. Mr. Keeling has authored several articles on eDiscovery and social media and is a co-chair for his firm’s eDiscovery Task Force.
 Ray Mangum, Associate Sidley Austin, LLP
Ray Mangum represents clients in a variety of government investigations and commercial disputes, with a particular focus on matters involving complex data analytics and e-discovery issues.
Mastering the Document Intensive Case: A Blueprint for the Boutique Firm
Increasingly lawyers are taking advantage of technology to practice in specialized boutique and smaller firm environments. But the rapidly growing size of collections of electronically stored information (ESI) presents an increasingly difficult challenge: How to effectively manage these resource-hungry cases without large firm support? What happens when the firm takes on a document-intensive case that its current review and production methods can’t handle? This educational webinar addresses how a boutique firm can effectively manage large cases, meet its deadlines, and avoid being outgunned by larger firms with greater staff and resources.
Agenda
Growth of Boutique Law Firms
Challenges for Boutique Firms Handling Large & Complex Cases
Technology and Staffing to Support a Boutique Firm Practice
eDiscovery/Document Management Software by Case Stage
Document Review/Production Options in Large Cases
Case Study
Mastering the Document Intensive Case: A Blueprint for the Boutique Firm