Webcasts Offer In-Depth Information on eDiscovery

As a knowledge leader and pioneer in electronic discovery technology and methodology, EED offers a library of webcasts that will help you conquer the latest challenges, tools and trends. View the archived webcasts below at your convenience.

ESI Production Risks & Complexities in Large eDiscovery Cases: What Should Corporate Counsel Do?
54 minutes

The timely and accurate production of responsive, non-privileged ESI is one of the most critical parts of the electronic discovery process, and recent cases indicate that there are significant risks to companies that don’t “get it right.”  This webcast explores some of the current issues involving the appropriate role of corporate counsel, the importance of considering ESI production at the start of a case, and the need for corporations to have their own eDiscovery framework and processes in place, to be used by all of their service providers, rather than relying on the different processes of its various outside counsel.

Presenters:

Christopher W. O'Neill, Associate General Counsel, Corporate Litigation, IBM
Christopher W. O'Neill is based in White Plains, New York. He specializes in e-Discovery issues for IBM. Prior to his present position, O'Neill 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, O'Neill was a litigator at Rogers & Wells in New York City.

Jeffrey Jacobs, Esq., Senior Consultant, Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc.
Jeffrey Jacobs, a Senior Consultant with Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. (“EED”), advises clients on electronic discovery, litigation readiness, and records management and retention issues. Prior to EED, Jacobs held the positions of Special Counsel in the litigation group of the Washington, DC office of Sullivan & Cromwell, and Associate Litigation Counsel at MCI WorldCom. Following the Verizon-MCI merger in 2006, Mr. Jacobs joined the Washington, DC office of DLA Piper as a Special Counsel in the litigation group. Mr. Jacobs is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Chicago Law School.

eDiscovery: Putting it into Perspective
45 minutes

Electronically stored information (ESI), and therefore eDiscovery, is at the forefront of any federal litigation. The amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil procedure (FRCP), require corporations to incorporate a comprehensive and defensible strategy, process and plan for handling preservation, collection and production of ESI. There is a lot of discussion and confusion regarding eDiscovery. Learn what’s important, the steps you need to take, the potential pitfalls, and best practices when it comes to legal compliance. In addition, learn about how IBM and EED provide corporations with a single source for legal compliance solutions.

The presenter is Russ Gould, Director of Marketing for EED, Inc.

eDiscovery Risks for Corporate Counsel webcast
30 minutes

eDiscovery is no longer the sole domain of your outside legal counsel. Now you as corporate counsel have a responsibility. Do you understand the risks you face? Are you prepared to face them? Make sure. Read the whitepaper to gain an understanding of the risks. Then watch the on-demand webcast to learn what to do about them.

The presenter is Jeffrey Jacobs, a Senior Consultant with Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. (“EED”), who advises clients on electronic discovery, litigation readiness, and records management and retention issues. He spent ten years as a Special Counsel in the litigation group of the Washington, DC office of Sullivan & Cromwell. Mr. Jacobs joined MCI WorldCom as an Associate Litigation Counsel, where he was the in-house attorney responsible for managing all electronic discovery. Following the Verizon-MCI merger in 2006, Mr. Jacobs joined the Washington, DC office of DLA Piper as a Special Counsel in the litigation group.

Accelerate eDiscovery Review with EED’s Document Clustering Tool “CompareVue”
32 minutes

Discover a world where an eDiscovery review presents reviewers with simple to understand document groupings that are highly likely to receive the same subjective coding which facilitates improvements in review efficiency and effectiveness. This webinar dives into how document clustering via  “CompareVue” , a feature of EED’s Discovery Partner®hosted review application, enables law firms and corporations to reduce the time it takes to get through an eDiscovery document review while maintaining tagging consistent. The presenter is Michael Krasner, Senior Business Consultant for EED.

eDiscovery & ECM; Natural Partners in Content Lifecycle Management and FRCP Compliance
60 minutes
What you will learn:

• Legal requirements for document retention
• The impact of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) on legal departments
• Benefits of taking an integrated approach to ECM and eDiscovery
• A project management approach to ECM and EDD

Presenters:

Patrick Oot, Director of Electronic Discovery and Senior Litigation Counsel, Verizon

Mr. Oot is considered one of the nation’s leading experts on electronic discovery. He has extensive experience in discovery practices involving commercial litigation, regulatory filings, and antitrust matters. Mr. Oot is charged with advising Verizon’s business units on electronic discovery while developing new technologies that increase cost-efficiency.

Mr. Oot is a member of the advisory board for ALM’s LegalTech, The Georgetown University Law Center CLE Program’s Advanced E-discovery Institute, and The eDiscovery Institute,an independent search and retrieval science consortium.

He received both his B.A. and J.D. from Syracuse University and his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Oot is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts and is also registered corporate counsel in Virginia.

Jeff Beard, Attorney and Senior Consultant, Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc.

Mr. Beard is an attorney and Senior Consultant with Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. He is frequently involved in the more complex issues confronted by large firms and corporate law departments, including enterprise litigation readiness, electronic discovery, litigation support, records management, information security, and data privacy. Mr. Beard is also a former Legal Services IT Manager with a Fortune 100 corporation and a Six Sigma Green Belt. He has extensive experience with matter management, electronic invoicing, and document and enterprise content management.