Follow-up to our posting on document review software certification program

The Catalyst CR Certified Reviewers program (CRCR) certification program for Catalyst CR which we announced yesterday (see details immediately below) has added an additional session:

                        OCT 6: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm

You can sign up for this additional session by clicking here.  The first 3 sessions we announced yesterday filled in 2 hours so Catalyst decided to add another session.  Please register as soon as possible because we expect this one to fill up quickly, too.

Now, in answer to your many, many emails:

1. The sessions above are live sessions being conducted by Catalyst trainers. These are not webcasts/webinars.

2. Catalyst will be setting up webcasts/webinars in the future for the same certification program. We will inform you when they are set-up.

3. However, Catalyst will be rolling out “live” sessions in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and several other cities. We will provide details on these programs in the future.

4. Also, we will be rolling out certification programs for other document review software such as Attenex, Clearwell, iConnect, Relativity, etc. We will provide details on these programs in the future. You can appreciate that the logistics of this enterprise are daunting and we are working diligently in providing this service.

Lastly, the second phase of this effort will include:

1. Webcasts and webinars from vendors such as Orange Legal Technologies so you can understand how the whole process of analytics, processing and review work together. Too many contract attorneys and paralegals enter e-discovery in a vacuum with no training or understanding how all the moving parts fit together.

2. Live seminars and webcasts and webinars from law firms in such areas as the FCPA, principles of attorney-client privilege, the merger process, etc. These are all subjects we encounter on projects yet we have little training on any of these areas.

3. A new page on the Posse List called “Briefing Notes” in which we provide background articles and comments on projects you are probably reviewing, or about to review. We start tomorrow with “Anatomy of a Merger: the Kraft/Cadbury deal”, a look at a deal much in the press; they are about to make a deal, it will be a whopper of an antitrust review and it will be coming (eventually) to a law firm near you. Next week we take a look at a project that many of you in DC are on: the Delta/USAir slot trade deal.

So stay tuned: we have much to tell.