Sep. 9, 2009

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND

This program will provide you with an understanding  of how technology can assist you in obtaining early case insight and enable you to complete tasks more efficiently, effectively and practically when facing costly eDiscovery processing and review cycles.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• How to use content analytics and conceptual search technologies, in addition to classical Boolean searches widely used in the market, to quickly extract the substance of a case
• To easily manage the unprecedented volume of electronically stored information within the confines of a given response timeframe via content analytics and conceptual search technologies
• How to reduce costs and risks
• How to leverage early case assessment (ECA) technologies to assist in decision making to help reduce unprecedented volumes of electronically stored information (ESI) and to increase your agility in responding to eDiscovery requests

INTENDED AUDIENCE

Corporate Counsel, Chief Legal Officers, Attorneys in private practice
 

TIMED AGENDA: 65 minutes

• The early case time-line under the new eDiscovery rules: the promise of ECA in assisting corporate counsel in their decision making – (20 minutes)
  
  Christopher O’Neill
   
• Leveraging new technologies to assist corporate counsel: best practices in applying ECA technologies to help pinpoint the essence of a matter, for faster factual decision making.  – (5 minutes)
  
  Aaron Brown
  
   
• Demonstration of early case assessment theory in practice  – (25 minutes)
  
  Christopher O’Neill, Aaron Brown
  
   
• Technology capabilities to support legal decision making – (10 minutes)
  
   Christopher O’Neill
  
   
• Key takeaways – (5 minutes)
  
   Aaron Brown
   

FACULTY

Aaron Brown, Ph. D., Program Director, Content Discovery, IBM

Aaron Brown, Ph. D.,  is Program Director, Content Discovery in the ECM segment of IBM Information Management Software, where he is responsible for strategy, planning, and product marketing for IBM’s Discovery software portfolio, including eDiscovery, content analytics, content classification, and enterprise search offerings. Dr. Brown joined IBM in 2003 and holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. abbrown@us.ibm.com

Christopher O'Neill, Associate General Counsel, Corporate Litigation, IBM

Chris O'Neill is Associate General Counsel, Corporate Litigation, at IBM Corporation, based in White Plains, New York. He specializes in e-Discovery issues for IBM. Prior to his present position, Chris held a variety of legal positions in IBM's software, servers, and sales business units. He received his law degree from NYU School of Law in 1987 and is a member of the New York bar. Prior to joining IBM, Chris was a litigator at Rogers & Wells in New York City. cwo@us.ibm.com