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- June 26 - 27, 2008
June 27
Exhibit Floor 10am - 5pm
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LO Legal Outsourcing: Trends, Best Practices, and Emerging MarketsRM: 501A |
ED Electronic Discovery Issues in LitigationRM: 502A |
KM Knowledge ManagementRM: 502B |
FL Law Technology News Presents FutureLawRM: 503 |
ET Emerging TechnologyRM: 506 |
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Keynote Presentation:
From a Judicial Perspective: Selected Issues Regarding the Federal Amended E-Discovery Rules
Elizabeth D. Laporte, US District Court, Northern District of California Magistrate JudgeRM: 502A
Sponsored by: 
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Exhibit Hall Opens |
| 10:30 - 12:00 |
LO1:
Selecting Your Outsourcing Provider
Moderator:
GANESH NATARAJAN
President & CEO
Mindcrest Inc.
Chicago, IL
Panelists:
MATTHEW FAWCETT
General Counsel
JDS Uniphase Corporation
Milpitas, CA
JAMES K.WAGNER JR.
Co-Founder
DiscoverReady LLC
New York, NY
LLOYD RICHARDSON
Partner
McGuire Woods LLP
McLean, VA
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ED1:
The Match Game: Searching and Sampling ESI
Moderator:
PATRICK OOT
Director of Electronic Discovery & Senior Litigation Counsel
Verizon Legal Department
Arlington, VA
Panelists:
JOE UTSLER
Product Manager
LexisNexis Litigation Services
Los Angeles, CA
RALPH LOSEY
Co-Chair of the Akerman Senterfitt's E-Discovery Team
Akerman Senterfitt
Orlando, FL
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KM1:
Creating A Successful Enterprise Search System
Speakers:
ALI SHAHIDI
Director of Knowledge Management
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Santa Monica, CA
AMY HALVERSON
Manager of Litigation Knowledge Management
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Palo Alto, CA
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FL1:
Sell Your Tech
Speakers:
DOUG CADDELL
CIO
Foley & Lardner LLP
Chicago, IL
ROB KAHN
Director, Business Development
Fenwick & West LLP
Mountain View, CA
ROBIN SOLOMON
Firmwide Knowledge Manager
Heller Ehrman
Los Angeles, CA
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ET1:
11:45 - 12:30
eDiscovery Supply Chain Best Practices
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Exhibit Hall Break |
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LO2:
Outsourcing and Offshoring Document Review
Moderator:
TEJU DESHPANDE
Vice President, Client Services
Mindcrest Inc.
Chicago, IL
Panelists:
MACYL BURKE
Director of Marketing
ACT Litigation Services
Valencia, CA
GANESH NATARAJAN
President & CEO
Mindcrest Inc.
Chicago, IL
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ED2:
E-Discovery Jeopardy
Moderator:
CRAIG BALL
Attorney and Technologist
Computer Forensic Examiner
Austin, TX
Panelists:
PATRICK YOUNG
Director, Sales
Discovery Services
LexisNexis
Overland Park, KS
HEATHER STEWART
Database Administrator
Snell & Wilmer, LLP
Phoenix, AZ
LISA ROSEN
President
Rosen Technology Resources
Chicago, IL
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KM2:
Social Computing and Collaboration – Wiki, Blogs, and Tags and RSS
Speakers:
THOMAS W. BALDWIN
Chief Knowledge Officer
Reed Smith LLP
Los Angeles, CA
MARY PANETTA
Director of Knowledge Management
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP
Los Angeles, CA
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FL2:
Green Law
Speakers:
ANTHONY HOKE
Global Technology Purchasing/Asset Manager
Morrison & Foerster LLP
San Francisco, CAA
BRUCE LYMBURN
Partner
Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP
Oakland, CA
ALVIDAS JASIN
Director of Business Development
Thompson Hine LLP
Cleveland, OH
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Exhibit Hall Break |
| 3:30 - 5:00 |
LO3:
Recent Trends in Legal Outsourcing
Moderator:
LLOYD RICHARDSON
Partner
McGuire Woods LLP
McLean, VA
Panelists:
MOHIT DASWANI
Principal
JMI Equity
San Diego, CA
GANESH NATARAJAN
President & CEO
Mindcrest Inc.
Chicago, IL
AJOY VACCHER
Managing Director
The Astor Group
New York, NY
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ED3:
The Price is Right: Using a combination of staffing options, outsourcing and technology to control cost
Speakers:
RALPH LOSEY
Co-Chair of the Akerman Senterfitt's E-Discovery Team
Akerman Senterfitt
Orlando, FL
RICK HAUSER
Operation Manager
Senior Corporate Counsel, Office of the General Counsel
Farmers Group, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
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KM3:
Email – Friend or Foe to Knowledge Management?
Speakers:
AYELETTE ROBINSON
Practice Resources Attorney
Morrison Foerster
Palo Alto, CA
CRAIG CARPENTER
Vice President of Marketing
Recommind
San Francisco, CA
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FL3:
TomorrowLand
Speakers:
J. CRAIG WILLIAMS
Partner
The Williams Lindberg Law Firm (Tech & Law in
MultiJurisdictional Practices)
Newport Beach, CA
CRAIG BALL
Attorney and Technologist (Crystal Ball: Future of E-Discovery)
Certified Computer Forensic Examiner
Austin, TX
DOUGLAS CADDELL
CIO
Foley & Lardner (Next Generation – Systems & People*)
Chicago, IL
PETER HSIAO
Head, Land Use & Environmental Law Group
Morrison & Foerster LLP (CleanTech)
Los Angeles, CA
THOMAS W. BALDWIN
Chief Knowledge Officer
Reed Smith LLP (Relationship Capital)
Los Angeles, CA
JUDITH FLOURNOY
CIO
Loeb & Loeb LLP (Leadership)
Los Angeles, CA
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LO: Legal Outsourcing: Trends, Best Practices, and Emerging Markets [Top]
Law firms and corporations outsource for a variety of reasons,
including reduction of operating costs. The industry is growing
domestically and internationally. Forrester Research projects that
the industry may grow to $4 billion dollars in India alone by 2015.
Join us for a discussion on where the industry is been and where
it is headed.
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LO1: Selecting Your Outsourcing Provider [Top]
What should in-house counsel or law firms keep in mind when
selecting the right outsourcing provider? Which model of
engagement works best for you? This panel will dissect issues
such as vendor management, change of control, quality of work
product, blended service models and the critical role of "process"
in legal process outsourcing.
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LO2: Outsourcing and Offshoring Document Review [Top]
Learn how technology-assisted state-of-the art process management
techniques have taken offshore legal document review well
past the proof of the concept stage. This panel will share industry
best practices on how to successfully structure and manage offshore
document review projects. The focus of this session will be
on project planning, eDiscovery tools and developing quality metrics
that are key to streamlining and monitoring large scale offshore
document review work.
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LO3: Recent Trends in Legal Outsourcing [Top]
Thought leaders on this panel share their unique perspectives on
present and future trends in legal outsourcing. Get valuable
strategic insights from corporations, law firms and venture
capitalists on where this dynamically evolving industry is headed.
A special focus will be on emergent eDiscovery technologies and
India as the preferred destination for offshore legal outsourcing.
ED: Electronic Discovery Issues in Litigation: Winning E-Discovery [Top]
Electronic discovery is no game, but To Tell the Truth, whether litigating
a Family Feud or one of the latest corporate Blockbusters,
lawyers and litigation support professionals unschooled in the
technical and legal aspects of this challenging area can be the
Weakest Link in a case. E-discovery requires Concentration on
effective search and sampling strategies calculated to get to the
Truth or Consequences can be severe. The $64,000 Question is,
can you Beat the Clock and not Break the Bank or Press your Luck?
Let's Make a Deal: attend this track and see how our panelists
make learning about e-discovery entertaining and informative.
Deal or No Deal?
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ED1: The Match Game: Searching and Sampling ESI [Top]
Searching and sampling ESI are complex sciences that powerfully
drive volume and cost in e-discovery. Yet, we too often approach
both unscientifically, little appreciating how small improvements
reap big savings in cost and performance. This panel will discuss
avoidable errors and share sensible ways to improve the precision
and recall of search and the scope and reliability of sampling.
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ED2: E-Discovery Jeopardy! [Top]
Who says learning can't be fun? Come play along as volunteers
from the audience vie for great prizes using their e-discovery
savvy in the classic Jeopardy format. Our own "Alex Trebek,"
joined by a top-notch judges panel, will insure this session is both
educational and entertaining. Be sure to answer in the form of a
question!
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ED3: The Price is Right: Using a combination of
staffing options, outsourcing and technology
to control cost [Top]
The panel will discuss how to optimize searches using new
concept search or review technologies, the benefits to be gained
by refining the size and shape of your review team, and how
entering into constructive dialogue can reduce electronic
discovery costs. Concepts which will be discussed include:
- the use of discovery categories, agreed keywords and negotiating the scope of discovery;
- the value of attending meet and confer conferences and setting parameters;
- the use of effective keyword searching and search tools to assist in culling electronically stored information;
- the role of, and considerations when using vendors;
- staffing options for legal review teams;
- how to optimize your legal review environment; and
- the cost benefits when reviewing and producing in a native format.
KM: Knowledge Management [Top]
Legal knowledge managers have made impressive strides in
recent years, bringing innovative tools to the KM market as well
as proving that KM resources are required for law firms to remain
competitive in the 21st century. But with progress comes
challenges, including ensuring reliable security, weaving KM
into legal practice, and designing proper use of Web 2.0 tools in
business environments. The sessions in this track will address
these and other common KM issues facing knowledge managers,
in the context of three of the hottest KM topics surfacing today:
enterprise search, social computing, and email management.
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KM1: Creating A Successful Enterprise Search
System [Top]
With the "Google generation" entering the workforce and even
the most senior partners now online, firms are realizing that
search is today's must have technology. But a Google-style search
box is not enough for the complexities of the legal environment.
Innovative firms are utilizing complex technology to provide
powerful yet simple results. This talk will discuss the issues of
implementation and adoption of enterprise search within the
firm.
- Why not just use Google?
- What information can and should be searched?
- How are ethical walls handled, is search really secure?
- In addition to saving time, can search also be used to
produce revenue?
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KM2: Social Computing and Collaboration –
Wiki, Blogs, and Tags and RSS [Top]
Collaborating, networking, improving collective knowledge,
managing spam… all sound like great ideas, right? So why have
law firms been slow to adopt the social computing tools so
popular and effective in the non-legal market? This talk will
highlight those tools best suited to legal practice and support
and will provide insights for garnering management buy-in and
increasing user adoption of those tools to help you reap the benefits
such tools can bring to your organization.
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KM3: Email – Friend or Foe to Knowledge
Management? [Top]
With the proliferation of email based communication, Knowledge
Management is at risk of losing track of valuable information
once again being stored away in discrete silos (i.e. each user's
inbox). However, new information management technologies are
emerging to address this intersection of knowledge management
with email management. This talk will discuss the issues KM
managers are faced with when managing email-based
information to turn this potential foe into a KM friend.
- What are the challenges firms face when managing email-based information?
- What are the implications for losing track of information?
- What infrastructure is available to effectively manage
email-based information?
- Can email-based information be securely and effectively
shared across the firm for collaboration?
FL: Law Technology News Presents FutureLaw [Top]
The legal profession is undergoing a dramatic change as firms
face a future where clients expect "better, faster, cheaper" legal
services, and demand use of technology, and require accountability.
No longer can law firms be run behind closed doors,managed
like private clubs. Today's firms must compete to win—and
retain—business, and are expected to demonstrate the same
priorities as their clients: for quality work, diversity, cost
management, and responsiveness. This track will explore
how firms and clients are responding to these challenges.
LTN Editor-in-Chief Monica Bay will moderate all panels.
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FL1: Sell Your Tech [Top]
It's no longer enough for firms to win business based on legal
skills alone. Today's savvy firms realize that they must offer topline
technology to win and keep clients. Our panelists will share
how their firms have integrated technology tools, such as
extranets and wikis, to increase collaboration and better serve
their clients' expectations.
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FL2: Green Law [Top]
It's Not Easy Going Green.... Or is It? Using technology tools to
create a "green"workplace can not only lower your energy
consumption, it can increase productivity,morale, profits,
improve lifestyles and health, cut costs, and help you get, and
keep, new clients. How your organization can establish a program,
from leadership needed to concrete programs that work.
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FL3: Tomorrowland [Top]
Where is the legal community headed, and what challenges does
it face, as technology becomes embedded in every facet of our
lives? From delivering the best possible legal services to our
clients; to providing opportunities to excel in the workplace and
at home; to confronting the challenges of competing interests in
a global economy; it's a heady challenge to move forward. Each of
our six leaders will forecast what lies ahead—and where opportunities
may abound: Tech & Law in MultiJurisdictional Practices -
J. CraigWilliams, Partner, TheWilliams Lindberg Law Firm; Crystal
Ball: Future of E-Discovery - Craig Ball, Consultant/Attorney; Next
Generation – Systems & People - Douglas Caddell, CIO, Foley &
Lardner; CleanTech - Peter Hsaio, Head, Land Use & Environmental
law Group, Morrison & Foerster; Relationship Capital - Tom
Baldwin, Chief Knowledge Officer, Reed Smith; Leadership - Judith
Flournoy, CIO, Loeb & Loeb.
ET: Emerging Technology [Top]
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ET1: eDiscovery Supply Chain Best Practices [Top]
Over the past 20 years, companies have automated and optimized nearly all internal processes with the exception of legal. As companies realize the full cost impact of mandated eDiscovery requirements, general counsel and law firms have started to move from repetitive vendor reviews or build-it-yourself mentality to using centralized, on-demand eDiscovery software solutions. This approach allows companies to transform from a reactive to a proactive approach, effectively optimizing their eDiscovery supply chain and creating a process management methodology for maximum efficiency and control of risk and cost.
Find out how innovative companies and their leading law firms benefit from using a centralized, on-demand eDiscovery software platform and proven processes across all matters, enabling them to efficiently and defensibly respond to today's legal and compliance challenges, consistently, accurately and faster. These companies enjoy innovative features and benefits such as user-level performance analytics across all matters, while delivering overall savings of 30-60 percent and increasing earnings per share (EPS) by up to 1.1 percent.
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