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Tuesday’s Relativity Fest Sessions: eDiscovery Trends

As we noted yesterday the 2018 Relativity Fest conference is going on this week, CloudNine will once again be here as a Silver Sponsor and I will be covering the show for eDiscovery Daily.  Let’s check out some of the sessions lined up for today.

This year, Relativity Fest is September 30 through October 3 in Chicago at The Hilton Chicago.  If you’re in the Chicago area, you can still make it for nearly all of the conference or attend on a one-day pass.  As a development partner in the Relativity ecosystem, CloudNine will once again be the conference and will be there to provide demonstrations of our Outpost for Relativity capability that automatically ingests and loads data into Relativity based on your specified criteria.  Also, I’m delighted to say that I will also once again be speaking at a session at the conference today!

Here are some of the eDiscovery-related sessions for today:

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM:

LIE227578 – International e-Discovery and Data Protection

2018 has been a significant year for international e-discovery, and the annual international session will address important issues that have affected cross-order discovery and data law generally, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), United States v. Microsoft, and the CLOUD Act, as well as upcoming important topics, such as the EU’s ePrivacy Regulation.  This session has been submitted for CLE accreditation.

Speakers Include: Chris Dale – Founder, eDisclosure Information Project, Heidi Stenberg – Principal | Assurance Services | Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services, EY, Karyn Harty – Partner, McCann FitzGerald, Karl Hennessee – Senior Vice President, Litigation, Investigations & Regulatory Affairs, Airbus, Johnny Lee – Principal & National Practice Leader, Forensic Technology Services, Grant Thornton US LLP.

11:10 AM – 12:10 PM:

PD188410 – Fostering Inclusiveness: Promoting Diversity and Inclusion on Your e-Discovery Team

Fostering environments that provide openness and inclusion has been proven to drive team performance, innovation, and employee retention. Recognizing the benefits of diversity in the workplace is only the first step—how do you build a culture of diversity into your e-discovery business? Relativity Fest is a unique opportunity to have a productive dialogue around how we, as a community, promote diversity both within our own organizations and within the larger e-discovery and legal world.

This 60-minute panel will discuss ways of driving inclusion in your practice and inspire a vision of an inclusive e-discovery community. The panel will cover:

  • Why diversity matters to e-discovery
  • How to foster a culture of inclusion, diversity, and openness, as well as promote diversity of thought
  • Strategies for finding and retaining diverse talent
  • How to make inclusion part of your e-discovery DNA
  • Selling diversity initiatives internally to your organization and gaining alignment on why it’s an important investment
  • Unlocking inclusion with global e-discovery teams

Speakers Include: Drew Stern – Founder & Co-CEO, Esquify, Elizabeth Anastasia – Director of Technology Operations, Perkins Coie LLP, Will Syvongsa – Technical Business Analyst, Relativity, Maria Zanfini – Vice President & Senior Managing Counsel, Investigations, Mastercard, Antonio Avant – Manager, Litigation Technology, Troutman Sanders eMerge, Mary Mack, ACEDS.

LIE230321 – ILTA and Relativity Fest Present Finding the Fun in Writing Fundamentals

Writing skills are mission critical for lawyers and paralegals, and studies show that even those in the technical fields advance faster and are more effective with colleagues if they know how to write well.

The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) began Finding the Fun in Writing Fundamentals, a legal technology writing skills program, at ILTACON, and now ILTA and Relativity are pleased to bring it to you in an ILTA webinar live from Relativity Fest. Whether you’re trying to write motions, pleadings, effective emails, team bios, technical training manuals, client timekeeping entries, blogs, or social media posts, this program will guide you through the writing process and help you communicate better in the legal technology workplace.  In addition, we’ll examine legal matters where writing errors have influenced the outcome of the case.

Join us for writing best practices from Gary Kinder of Wordrake, a nationally recognized writing coach who has appeared on The New York Times Best Sellers List, and Relativity’s David Horrigan, a longtime legal author and former reporter and assistant editor at The National Law Journal—with retired US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck of DLA Piper providing guidance and sharing some of the biggest legal writing blunders he’s seen—in this fun and educational program.

This session has been submitted for CLE accreditation.

Speakers Include: David Horrigan – Discovery Counsel and Legal Education Director, Relativity, Honorable Andrew Peck – Retired U.S. Magistrate Judge (S.D.N.Y) and Senior Counsel, DLA Piper, Gary Kinder – Founder, WordRake.

3:40 PM – 4:40 PM:

LIE227576 – Social Media Law and Practice

Join Relativity and the Coalition of Technology Resources for Lawyers in this session covering the latest case law and rules on the discovery of social media data, including the 2017 amendments to Fed. R. Evid. 902, as well as practical considerations for dealing with social media data.  This session has been submitted for CLE accreditation.

Speakers Include: Phil Favro – Consultant, Driven, Inc., Amy Sellers – Associate General Counsel, Walmart, Craig Carpenter – CEO, X1, Doug Austin – VP of Products, CloudNine.

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM:

LIE231935 – e-Discovery in the Cloud: Legal, Ethical and Security Considerations

As e-discovery and the legal profession continue to join the rest of business and society in the move to the cloud, legal teams are encountering new legal, ethical, and security issues. Jurisdictional considerations, information governance—including system security and data privacy—and ethical considerations, including ethical requirements for technological competence, are important issues. Join us for a new version of this popular session with timely new updates, including 2018 case law and regulatory developments.  This session has been submitted for CLE accreditation.

Speakers Include: David Horrigan – Discovery Counsel and Legal Education Director, Relativity, David Kilgore – Corporate Counsel, Rackspace, Karl Hennessee – Senior Vice President, Litigation, Investigations & Regulatory Affairs, Airbus, Dennis Garcia – Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft.

To register to attend Relativity Fest, click here.  It’s not too late!  And, the Cubbies are in the baseball playoffs again (in as a Wild Card – sorry Cubbies!) – though the Astros are going to win it all again this year.  Hey, I was right when I predicted it last year!

So, what do you think?  Are you attending Relativity Fest this year?  Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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