5 January 2011  - Many legal pundits have repeatedly called for teaching e-discovery at law schools.  No one in the e-discovery world can miss what the digital information revolution has done to dramatically alter the discovery process.  Nobody has beat this drum more loudly than Ralph Losey, a reigning e-discovery guru (click here). But if you [...]

      Sound project management is vital to any eDiscovery matter.  Without it, data can be overlooked, budgets overrun, deadlines missed, and defensibility compromised.   To ensure that your eDiscovery matter is managed properly, you need more than just a good project manager; you need a well thought-out process that incorporates quality assessment and control. To find [...]

On Thursday, March 11th, at 1:00pm Catalyst is sponsoring a webinar discussion exploring recent e-discovery trends regarding privileged documents, including the Facciola-Redgrave protocol for privilege analysis and best practices for creating privilege logs. This presentation will include: * Analysis of key aspects of the Facciola-Redgrave Framework for avoiding a document-by-document privilege review.  * Assessment of ways [...]

19 November 2009 Reporting for The Posse List:  Gregory Bufithis, Scott Madsen and Alex Hania Last week Georgetown Law CLE, in cooperation with the Sedona Conference, presented its 6th Annual Advanced E-Discovery Institute.  It was one of the best conferences we’ve attended on e-discovery and that is based on the content covered, the experts/luminaries in the e-discovery field that [...]

15 November 2009 The presentation on Advanced Search and Retrieval Technology was made by Jason R. Baron, Maura Grossman and Ralph Losey, all powerhouses in the e-discovery world. Baron and Losey started off with their multimedia PowerPoint presentation (to the tune of Darude’s Sandstorm which we had just seen at the Capital One Future of [...]

15 November 2009 The Institute ended on Friday with a reconvening of the Federal Judges panel that opened the program the first day.  Much was discussed (generated by questions from the audience) so we’ll highlight only some of the major points: 1.   There was much discussion about privilege, how the volume of information produced by electronic discovery [...]

12 November 2009 The presentation was titled Information Everywhere: Understanding New Technologies and Coping With New Problems and was presented by Judge James Francis (U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of New York), Anne Kershaw (founder of A. Kershaw, P.C.), Thomas Morrissey (responsible for the development and implementation of technology supporting the Office of [...]

12 November 2009 The first session was a truly all-star U.S. judicial panel: Magistrate Judge John Facciola, Magistrate Judge Paul Grimm, Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan,  Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck,  District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin and Magistrate Judge David Waxe, moderated by Kenneth Withers, Director of Judicial Education and Content for The Sedona Conference. The focus was on the five major subject areas in [...]