Conference Day 2: Wednesday, September 16, 2009

8:15Registration & Coffee

8:45Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Address

9:00 Real Life Examples of Litigation Cost Containment Strategies

• Setting a realistic budget
• Planning ediscovery as a project
• Maximizing full in-house potential via assigning the right distribution of tasks internally
• Sharing best practices and shortcuts in increasing efficiency and cutting down the dollar & time
• Constant measuring of the effectiveness of current team layout and altering roles if necessary
• Discussing cost management and reduction in:

• Attorney Fees
• Service Vendors
• Software tools
• Storage

10:00 The Power of Effective E-Training in Records Management – Who and How session

• Creating and delivering meaningful and memorable training
• Leveraging organizational structure to champion and deploy training
• Selecting vendors and overcoming technical challenges
• Showcasing and demo of training programs
• Developing multi-prong approach to training

10:50Networking Break

11:35eDiscovery in Times of “Consolidation” Through Pharma Merger & Acquisitions

• Understanding when and how each party is involved
• Exploring hand over pending litigation issues
• Evaluating who owns the data
• Overcoming the challenges in combining IT & record management teams
• Dealing with the ESI of departed and/or inherited employees
• Recent pharma antitrust challenges and enforcement initiatives
• Understanding what ediscovery requests were made on recent cases
• Learning new initiatives from the new administration with regard
• Discovering where the investigators are looking at

12:25Luncheon

1:25Building a Data Map of Your Company through Collaboration between IT, Record Management and Legal Departments

• Determining who should build the data map and deciding when to utilize internal resources or external vendors
• Understanding who should be on this three-legged team from each of the groups
• Learning how you break this task down into manageable pieces
• Discussing what typical queries come in for ediscovery that will utilize the data map
• Examining the data map once it is in place, who is responsible to keep it up to date and how often should this be done
• Providing the data map during each meet and confer session – good idea or not

2:15Networking Break

2:40 Firm Perspective: Making Sense of the Massive Discovery Produced By the Other Side in A Cost Effective Way

• Managing the data produced by software in-house
• Eliminating and cutting down unnecessary reviewing processes
• Collaborating with in-house record management to starting the process early to cut cost
• Best practices in handling the substantial amount of data produced in-house in a cost efficient way

3:30 Discussing The Authenticity Of ESI

• Analyzing ESI for missing or anomalous data
• Using forensics to establish the authenticity of your opponent's ESI
• Overview of admissibility traps for the unwary
• The importance of Early Case Assessments (ECA)
• The advantage of in-place analysis before collecting relevant ESI
• The value of Concept Search