WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND

This program will look at the causes of high discovery risk and cost and provide practical and functional solutions for lowering discovery cost and risk and reducing current and legacy data volume.   The program discusses the key stakeholder challenges in preservation, data collection, retention and disposal processes from Legal, Records, IT and Business points of view. Presenters will debunk the myths and share how technology assists corporations to strategically maneuver towards proactive Information Governance while dynamically dealing with active eDiscovery requests.
 
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Attendees will learn how to reduce the risk and cost caused by ad hoc, unstructured discovery and information management practices.   Structured as a case study, the program will cover the root causes of high risk and costs and provide attendees with a comprehensive view of the issues using a risk heat map, cost analysis, deposition example, sample solutions for defensible disposal, and before and after cost and risk scenarios to benchmark against.   Additionally, by leveraging technologies available in the market,  you will learn how you can dynamically analyze and assess electronically stored information, and strategically enable proactive Information Governance while practically driving rapid eDiscovery responses.

•  The risky and costly discovery and information management challenges facing legal, IT, and RIM stakeholders
•  How functional silos separate these stakeholders, undermine good intentions, and increase legal risk and data volume
•  How Information Governance can help companies achieve rigorous discovery and defensible disposal and align Legal, Records, IT and Business
•  A defensible disposal case study with quantified risk and cost before and after information governance
•  Why the “Keep Everything Myths” aren’t legally defensible and are operational nightmares
•  Content Analytics enables high volume ESI analysis that was previously impractical
•  Onramp to Information Governance - dynamically analyze what you have, decommission what’s unnecessary, preserve and exploit the content that matter--for a legally sound basis for routine data disposition

INTENDED AUDIENCE

Corporate Counsel, CLO, Attorneys

Anyone focused on reducing the risks and costs of eDiscovery will benefit from a thorough foundation in the root cause of high discovery cost, the real risk drivers and the elements of rigorous discovery for defensible disposal.

TIMED AGENDA: 60 min

• “eDiscovery Cost Control and Defensible Disposal”
•  Debunking the “Keep Everything” Myths – David White (15 min)
•  Information Governance  - Deidre Paknad  (20 min)
•  On Ramp to Information Governance and Addressing Legacy Data -- Aaron Brown (25 min)

FACULTY

Deidre Paknad, President & CEO , PSS  Systems
Deidre.paknad@pss-systems.com
 

Deidre leads the company and drives its solution vision; she is widely credited with having conceived of and launched the first commercial applications for legal holds, collections and retention management in 2004 and is a well respected thought leader in the legal and information governance domain. Deidre founded the CGOC, a professional community on retention and preservation that analyst firm IDC labeled a "think tank". She has been an active member of several Sedona working groups since 2005 and leads the EDRM corporate information management working group.

Deidre is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive with 20 years' experience applying technology to poor-functioning business processes to reduce cost and risk. Prior to PSS, she helped Certus launch its Sarbanes Oxley software solution. Deidre previously founded and was CEO of CoVia Technologies from 1996 to 2000, where she was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution for innovation in 1999 and again in 2000. She held operations and marketing management posts at Altera Corporation, Consilium (acquired by Applied Materials) and Zinka over the course of her career. She has been profiled in several books and articles for entrepreneurship, most recently in Business Lessons from the Edge by Jim McCormick and Grade A Entrepreneurs by Marylene Delbourg Delphis. She graduated from the University of California.

David J. White, Seyfarth Shaw
dwhite@seyfarth.com
 

Mr. White is a senior associate in the Litigation Department of Seyfarth Shaw. His practice focuses on issues regarding electronic discovery as well as international and domestic data privacy and security, and other IT related legal issues. He is certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals as Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), and often advises clients in this regard. Mr. White’s electronic discovery practice is dedicated to both litigation response and readiness planning. He has more than a decade of experience assisting corporations in multiple sectors in preparing for and responding to discovery in litigation and regulatory matters, including electronic document preservation, production, spoliation mitigation, and computer forensic investigations. He is a contributing member of the Sedona Conference, and speaks regularly across the country in eDiscovery and data privacy issues. Before joining Seyfarth Shaw, he was the Principal Attorney of the White Law Group where he built his own practice assisting various Fortune 100 corporate clients with commercial litigation, eDiscovery, and intellectual property matters. Prior to becoming an attorney he worked for many years as an IT Consultant and Litigation Manager.

Mr. White is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and has technical and patent prosecution experience in cellular biology, mechanical engineering, and computer sciences. He holds an LL.M. from London University in international law. Mr. White is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt. Using Lean Six Sigma and project management methodologies to develop and implement eDiscovery protocols has time and again shown to reduce costs while delivering increased value to our clients. Seyfarth’s commitment to delivering legal services in such new ways - with an emphasis on value and continuous improvement—has been praised by the Association of Corporate Counsel as being "five years ahead of every other AmLaw 200 firm."

Aaron Brown, Ph. D. , Program Director, Content Discovery, IBM
abbrown@us.ibm.com
 

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.