Making E-Discovery Pay: Getting a Return on Your Preservation Effort Investment

Course Description

The proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, slated to go into effect on December 1, 2015, endorse "reasonable steps to preserve information" and emphasize the goal that discovery be "proportional to the needs of the case."

To show reasonable steps, companies and their outside counsel will need to give additional time and effort to particular preservation efforts. But that time and effort does not need to be spent solely with an eye to avoiding sanctions. It can be the first step toward gathering the cost information needed for future negotiations for limiting discovery based on proportionality.

This course will provide practical suggestions for using the preservation effort to create an initial quantification of costs for processing and reviewing various data categories and sources.

Presenters

Irene Savanis Fiorentinos is Of Counsel with Jones Day and has extensive experience with complex commercial litigation. Irene's experience includes commercial disputes arising from acquisitions and divestitures and involving complex breach of contract, indemnification, and fraud claims. She also has litigated securities, environmental, real estate, employment discrimination, trade secret, false claims matters, and consumer and other types of class actions. Irene is actively involved in coordinating the firm's eDiscovery initiatives and attorney training, and advises clients on a regular basis on preservation and other eDiscovery policies and practices. She has played key roles on several complex matters as liaison responsible for negotiating eDiscovery plans with opposing counsel and arguing eDiscovery disputes before courts.

David Kalat is a computer forensic investigator and eDiscovery project manager. He has managed data preservation, forensic analysis, and review hosting for clients including government agencies, international banks, pharmaceutical companies, higher education institutions, and corporations. David is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), an experienced researcher, and a nonfiction author.

Dean Christopher specializes in assessing client discovery needs and developing tailored solutions to achieve high levels of cost savings and efficiencies. Dean works extensively with corporate legal and IT departments to design and implement practical and sustainable solutions to address challenges associated with the constantly evolving discovery landscape. He focuses on assisting clients in identifying opportunities for optimization, from legal hold issuance through data collection, processing, document review, and production.

ThinkCLE - Making E-Discovery Pay: Getting a Return on Your Preservation Effort Investment

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