TOPIC: Ethics and Electronic Discovery: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned from the Trenches

Recent headlines about purported discovery breakdowns have litigators and their clients’ nationwide waiting with baited breath. Regardless of the end result, there are valuable lessons to be learned about the preservation and production of digital evidence. The experts can’t possibly cover every scenario, but expect a hearty discussion on such topics as failure to search and/or produce, options for asserting privilege claims after production, the use of “claw backs” and “quick peeks,” and the impact of the proposed amendment to Rule 502 of the Federal Rules of Evidence.

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Paul Najar
Executive Vice President/Administration, General Counsel and Secretary

Paul Najar was promoted to Executive Vice President in April 2002 after serving as Vice President/Administration, General Counsel and Secretary since November 2000. In this role, he is responsible for the company's administrative and legal affairs, including commercial and corporate matters, corporate governance and compliance, acquisitions and dispositions, intellectual property protection, litigation management, real estate and infrastructure, employee benefits and corporate security. Mr. Najar joined Anacomp in 1996 as Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary. Previously, he was an attorney for the University of California, Irvine, specializing in scientific research and ethics, employee relations and real estate matters. Mr. Najar also served as a litigation attorney and Assistant Secretary for California Federal Bank F.S.B. He is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Corporate Counsel Association and the San Diego Bar Association. Mr. Najar received his J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law and holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Humanities from the University of California, Irvine.

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TOPIC: Privileged Information: What they didn’t tell you about eDiscovery

Want to increase your productivity and value to your firm or organization? Want to save countless number of hours next time you're facing trial prep? We understand that there are a great number of seminars available to you that claim to discuss practical issues surrounding eDiscovery, however, what you find is that most of them focus on legal theory, case law or are simply thinly veiled product demonstrations. Attend this breakout session and immerse yourself in a wealth of practical tools and real world examples to help you plot a course through the world of e-discovery and navigate the process more efficiently.

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Douglas Kaminski
Vice President of Sales, Litigation

Douglas Kaminski is Vice President of Sales–Litigation Support for Anacomp, Inc., a leader in document imaging and technology for law firms and corporate legal departments. In this capacity, he works on a regular basis with thousands of attorneys and paralegals around the country in both law firms and major corporations. He is a member of the Detroit Bar Association, is Vice President and on the Advisory Board of the Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals.

As a speaker and author, he is highly requested nationwide and compresses a large amount of useful information into each seminar. Mr. Kaminski has spoken before the American Bar Association, the National Federation of Paralegal Associations and many other bar associations, paralegal organizations, and various legal professional groups. His articles have been published in Corporate Counsel Magazine, Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, the National Paralegal Reporter, and many other legal industry journals.

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TOPIC: Content Search, Collection, Processing, Review and Production

The exponential growth of ESI and e-discovery projects has made it more difficult to find the data that makes–or breaks–your case. Knowing how to identify the data–and handle it once it’s been identified–is crucial to successful litigation preparedness. Our panel of experts will examine methods for identifying and collecting data as well as developing collection protocols and systems, chain of custody and processing standards. You’ll also benefit from their advice drawn from their own experience on document review and production, including setting expectations for outside counsel and clients alike.

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Tom O'Connor
Legal Industry Consultant

Tom O'Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems. He is a New England native who graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972 with a BA in Political Science. After attending law school for one year at The University of Notre Dame, Tom returned to Baltimore and undertook a career as a paralegal specializing in complex litigation.

His initial exposure to a document intensive case came several years later when he assisted several public interest firms in Boston with a class action voting rights suit brought on behalf of patients at state hospitals. Over the years he has been involved in asbestos litigation, the Keating case, the San Diego Civic Center construction litigation, California class actions against crematoriums, national breast implant litigation, tobacco litigation on behalf of the Attorney General of Texas and various phases of the Enron litigation.

Tom's involvement with large cases led him to become familiar with dozens of various software applications for litigation support and he has both designed databases and trained legal staffs in their use on many of the cases mentioned above. This work has involved both public and private law firms of all sizes across the nation and, over the past several years, has expanded to include electronic document depositories and trial presentation systems.

A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom has been on the faculty of numerous national CLE providers and is also a member of the advisory board of the national American Lawyer Media LegalTech conferences. A prolific writer on the subject, with articles in numerous legal publications as well as being the Editor of several legal newsletters, Tom is also the author of The Automated Law Firm, a guide to computer systems and software published by Aspen Law & Business, now in its fourth edition and The Lawyers Guide to Summation, published by the ABA. He is currently the Director of the Legal Electronic Document Institute, a non profit corporation established to promote the development of education and standards in the field of legal electronic documents, including practice management of electronic documents, electronic trial practice with litigation support systems, e-filing, e-signatures and e-discovery.

Sometime over the past 18 years, Tom also found time to return to law school and acquire a J.D. He and his eighteen year old son, Seamus hope someday to have their own float in the Krewe of Tucks Mardi Gras parade in which they ride every year, down the Mississippi down in New Orleans, where Tom now resides.

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TOPIC: Ethics and Electronic Discovery: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned from the Trenches

Recent headlines about purported discovery breakdowns have litigators and their clients’ nationwide waiting with baited breath. Regardless of the end result, there are valuable lessons to be learned about the preservation and production of digital evidence. The experts can’t possibly cover every scenario, but expect a hearty discussion on such topics as failure to search and/or produce, options for asserting privilege claims after production, the use of “claw backs” and “quick peeks,” and the impact of the proposed amendment to Rule 502 of the Federal Rules of Evidence.

Close...

Tom O'Connor
Legal Industry Consultant

Tom O'Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems. He is a New England native who graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972 with a BA in Political Science. After attending law school for one year at The University of Notre Dame, Tom returned to Baltimore and undertook a career as a paralegal specializing in complex litigation.

His initial exposure to a document intensive case came several years later when he assisted several public interest firms in Boston with a class action voting rights suit brought on behalf of patients at state hospitals. Over the years he has been involved in asbestos litigation, the Keating case, the San Diego Civic Center construction litigation, California class actions against crematoriums, national breast implant litigation, tobacco litigation on behalf of the Attorney General of Texas and various phases of the Enron litigation.

Tom's involvement with large cases led him to become familiar with dozens of various software applications for litigation support and he has both designed databases and trained legal staffs in their use on many of the cases mentioned above. This work has involved both public and private law firms of all sizes across the nation and, over the past several years, has expanded to include electronic document depositories and trial presentation systems.

A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom has been on the faculty of numerous national CLE providers and is also a member of the advisory board of the national American Lawyer Media LegalTech conferences. A prolific writer on the subject, with articles in numerous legal publications as well as being the Editor of several legal newsletters, Tom is also the author of The Automated Law Firm, a guide to computer systems and software published by Aspen Law & Business, now in its fourth edition and The Lawyers Guide to Summation, published by the ABA. He is currently the Director of the Legal Electronic Document Institute, a non profit corporation established to promote the development of education and standards in the field of legal electronic documents, including practice management of electronic documents, electronic trial practice with litigation support systems, e-filing, e-signatures and e-discovery.

Sometime over the past 18 years, Tom also found time to return to law school and acquire a J.D. He and his eighteen year old son, Seamus hope someday to have their own float in the Krewe of Tucks Mardi Gras parade in which they ride every year, down the Mississippi down in New Orleans, where Tom now resides.

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TOPIC: Privileged Information: What they didn’t tell you about eDiscovery

Want to increase your productivity and value to your firm or organization? Want to save countless number of hours next time you're facing trial prep? We understand that there are a great number of seminars available to you that claim to discuss practical issues surrounding eDiscovery, however, what you find is that most of them focus on legal theory, case law or are simply thinly veiled product demonstrations. Attend this breakout session and immerse yourself in a wealth of practical tools and real world examples to help you plot a course through the world of e-discovery and navigate the process more efficiently.

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Gayle O’Connor
Solutions Marketing Manager, Litigation

Gayle O’Connor is the Solutions Marketing Manager, Litigation for Anacomp. She began her career in the legal industry as a law librarian in 1987 when she joined the largest law firm in Northern California. Since then, she has held a variety of positions within the industry, most recently as an Independent Legal Technology Consultant where she worked for the US Federal Courts as the in-court trial technologist for the recent Hells Angels case in Washington State. Prior to that, O’Connor was the Director of Marketing for Ixio Corporation and the Marketing Manager for the Legal Division of the Pro2Net, an online portal for the legal community. Additionally, she spent a number of years with CourtLink where she managed a strategic relationship with West Group’s Westlaw Online Service.

O’Connor is a nationally recognized legal technology expert and has spoken for numerous associations and international conferences including the ABA TECHSHOW, American Lawyer Media LegalTech, Glasser LegalWorks, Online World and the New Zealand Law Society. She has been published in American Lawyer Media’s Law Technology News as well as a number of Alert Publication newsletters.

O’Connor is active in a number of associations including the American Bar Association where she is an active member of the Law Practice Management Section. In the past, O’Connor spent two years as a member of the board of the ABA TechShow planning committee. O’Connor provides a wealth of legal industry knowledge to the table as well as an unfettered degree of enthusiasm.

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TOPIC: Cost Containment: - The Cost Equation. – Helpful Hints for Economizing. – Vendors and Cost Containment. One of the greatest cost factors in ED processing is the reliance on the single page TIFF file format. This page-centric paradigm has been inherited from the days of handling single pieces of paper for copying, Bates numbering or scanning, with its subsequent per page pricing model.

Problems such as maintaining the relationship of the pages in a document, documents with embedded files or the relationship of an email with its attachment could be handled by a manual QC review process. And single page review of large documents could be done on a computer monitor in a manner similar to looking at individual pieces of paper.

But in today’s litigation environment, where millions of pages of documents are commonplace, this process is no longer reliable or cost effective. Modern docucentric litigation support applications, including CaseLogistix, use a relational database which stores the data about a document in multiple tables, not individual pages. This process supports advanced features and functionality, such as de-duping and concept searching, extracts all the text and metadata from a native file and establishes one document with pointers to all the associated pages or attachments. Equally important, this docucentric model eliminates the separate text extraction and single page TIFF designation that the page centric requires at the onset of the processing stage and thus cuts the cost of processing in half.

The docucentric approach is, then, faster, cheaper, technologically superior and easier to use. Applications that retain the paradigm of the page and not the document will not be able to adequately support the demands of modern litigation. Vendors that understand this will be the most cost effective and efficient at processing your documents.

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TOPIC: Content Search, Collection, Processing, Review and Production The exponential growth of ESI and e-discovery projects has made it more difficult to find the data that makes–or breaks–your case. Knowing how to identify the data–and handle it once it’s been identified–is crucial to successful litigation preparedness. Our panel of experts will examine methods for identifying and collecting data as well as developing collection protocols and systems, chain of custody and processing standards. You’ll also benefit from their advice drawn from their own experience on document review and production, including setting expectations for outside counsel and clients alike.

Close...

Tom O'Connor
Legal Industry Consultant

Tom O'Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems. He is a New England native who graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972 with a BA in Political Science. After attending law school for one year at The University of Notre Dame, Tom returned to Baltimore and undertook a career as a paralegal specializing in complex litigation.

His initial exposure to a document intensive case came several years later when he assisted several public interest firms in Boston with a class action voting rights suit brought on behalf of patients at state hospitals. Over the years he has been involved in asbestos litigation, the Keating case, the San Diego Civic Center construction litigation, California class actions against crematoriums, national breast implant litigation, tobacco litigation on behalf of the Attorney General of Texas and various phases of the Enron litigation.

Tom's involvement with large cases led him to become familiar with dozens of various software applications for litigation support and he has both designed databases and trained legal staffs in their use on many of the cases mentioned above. This work has involved both public and private law firms of all sizes across the nation and, over the past several years, has expanded to include electronic document depositories and trial presentation systems.

A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom has been on the faculty of numerous national CLE providers and is also a member of the advisory board of the national American Lawyer Media LegalTech conferences. A prolific writer on the subject, with articles in numerous legal publications as well as being the Editor of several legal newsletters, Tom is also the author of The Automated Law Firm, a guide to computer systems and software published by Aspen Law & Business, now in its fourth edition and The Lawyers Guide to Summation, published by the ABA. He is currently the Director of the Legal Electronic Document Institute, a non profit corporation established to promote the development of education and standards in the field of legal electronic documents, including practice management of electronic documents, electronic trial practice with litigation support systems, e-filing, e-signatures and e-discovery.

Sometime over the past 18 years, Tom also found time to return to law school and acquire a J.D. He and his eighteen year old son, Seamus hope someday to have their own float in the Krewe of Tucks Mardi Gras parade in which they ride every year, down the Mississippi down in New Orleans, where Tom now resides.

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TOPIC: Privileged Information: What they didn’t tell you about eDiscovery

Want to increase your productivity and value to your firm or organization? Want to save countless number of hours next time you're facing trial prep? We understand that there are a great number of seminars available to you that claim to discuss practical issues surrounding eDiscovery, however, what you find is that most of them focus on legal theory, case law or are simply thinly veiled product demonstrations. Attend this breakout session and immerse yourself in a wealth of practical tools and real world examples to help you plot a course through the world of e-discovery and navigate the process more efficiently.

Close...

Gayle O’Connor
Solutions Marketing Manager, Litigation

Gayle O’Connor is the Solutions Marketing Manager, Litigation for Anacomp. She began her career in the legal industry as a law librarian in 1987 when she joined the largest law firm in Northern California. Since then, she has held a variety of positions within the industry, most recently as an Independent Legal Technology Consultant where she worked for the US Federal Courts as the in-court trial technologist for the recent Hells Angels case in Washington State. Prior to that, O’Connor was the Director of Marketing for Ixio Corporation and the Marketing Manager for the Legal Division of the Pro2Net, an online portal for the legal community. Additionally, she spent a number of years with CourtLink where she managed a strategic relationship with West Group’s Westlaw Online Service.

O’Connor is a nationally recognized legal technology expert and has spoken for numerous associations and international conferences including the ABA TECHSHOW, American Lawyer Media LegalTech, Glasser LegalWorks, Online World and the New Zealand Law Society. She has been published in American Lawyer Media’s Law Technology News as well as a number of Alert Publication newsletters.

O’Connor is active in a number of associations including the American Bar Association where she is an active member of the Law Practice Management Section. In the past, O’Connor spent two years as a member of the board of the ABA TechShow planning committee. O’Connor provides a wealth of legal industry knowledge to the table as well as an unfettered degree of enthusiasm.

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