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Here’s a Chance to Keep What Could Go Wrong from Going Wrong: eDiscovery Best Practices

Today, I’m in Orlando, at The Master’s Conference Orlando event, which is a full day of educational sessions covering a wide range of topics.  Here is a link with more information about today’s conference and our panel discussion due up at 10:00 am today local time.  If you’re in the Orlando area, come check it out!

As data complexity, discovery costs, and regulatory challenges increase in volume and impact, the pulse rate of publicly highlighted eDiscovery mistakes continues to build. While these mistakes are unfortunate for those who experienced them, they can be beneficial to the rest of us in highlighting mistakes you can avoid in your own cases.  Here’s your chance to learn from their mistakes and keep what could go wrong from going wrong.

On the third annual E-Discovery Day, Friday, December 1 at noon CST (1:00pm EST, 10:00am PST), CloudNine will conduct the webcast Murphy’s eDiscovery Law: How to Keep What Could Go Wrong From Going Wrong. In this one-hour webcast that’s CLE-approved in selected states, we will discuss examples of recent eDiscovery disasters and highlight the common characteristics of those disasters and what can be done to avoid them in your own cases.  Topics include:

  • Attorney Duty of Competence
  • Avoiding the Mistake in Assuming that Discovery Begins When the Case is Filed
  • How to Proactively Address Inadvertent Privilege Productions
  • Up Front Planning to Reduce Review Costs
  • How to Avoid Getting Stuck with a Bad Production from Opposing Counsel
  • Understanding Your Data to Drive Discovery Decisions
  • Minimizing Potential ESI Spoliation Opportunities
  • How to Avoid Processing Mistakes that Can Slow You Down
  • Common Searching and Redaction Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
  • Checklist of Items to Ensure a Smooth and Accurate Production
  • Managing Communications: Attorney and Vendor Responsibilities

I’ll be presenting the webcast, along with Tom O’Connor, who is now a Special Consultant to CloudNine!  If you follow our blog, you’re undoubtedly familiar with Tom as a leading eDiscovery thought leader (who we’ve interviewed several times over the years) and I’m excited to have Tom as a participant in this webcast!  To register for it, click here.  Even if you can’t make it, go ahead and register to get a link to the slides and to the recording of the webcast (if you want to check it out later).  This is your opportunity to avoid mistakes that others have made.

So, what do you think?  What do you do when things go wrong?  Scream?  Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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