e-Discovery continually presents fresh challenges.  For law firms and corporations to fully understand the issues that accompany the new rules, it’s necessary to keep up with current cases in which interpretation and application of the rules are played out.

Not only that—companies must assess the impact of new federal e-discovery rules on e-discovery risks and costs.  How to keep up?  Lumen Legal has the solution: a webinar series that caters to hot button issues and questions in the legal community as pertaining to e-discovery. 

M. James Daley, e-discovery expert and partner at Redgrave Daley Ragan and Wagner LLP, will present a series of webinars in which he shares practical knowledge about e-discovery for firms and corporations alike.

The first of these webinars will concentrate on risks and costs.  During All-In?  Practical Approaches for Beating the “No-Limit” Game of E-Discovery Risk and Cost, Daley will expound on:

• The impact of the new federal e-discovery rules on e-discovery risks and costs
  
• How to reliably assess the “all-in” e-discovery risks and costs to an organization
• How IT can help lawyers prepare to avoid e-discovery risks and costs
• Areas of potential risk and cost reduction throughout the entire legal information management life-cycle

As Daley says, “It’s important to look at total cost of ownership and all-in costs when you’re making decisions about e-discovery risk and costs.  Often we overlook certain parts of those costs, which can lead to bad decisions and results.” He will walk through a general all-in cost assessment methodology and identify cost components at a high-level to develop a common framework for understanding.

“Once you know what risk and cost areas are, you need to know how to avoid them,” Daley points out.  To do so, he says, it’s necessary to be practical and helpful with IT personnel, so they understand their role in the process.  “They may well be on the hot seat in terms of how these Rule 26(f) decisions have been made, in terms of defining what is reasonably accessible.”

Daley will address the question of how e-discovery directly impacts IT.  He recommends that lawyers paint a picture of the importance of IT’s role, and emphasize that IT can make their lives easier by participating as an equal member up front. 

Daley also intends to present a strategic bird’s-eye view of the entire legal information management process and invite participants to look at various cost components and create a timeline from creation to destruction of information. 

“There are all these layers of potential cost, but also opportunities for streamlining and saving money,” he says.  “The idea is to talk about exploring technology and human process improvement, such as contract document review, and use of archiving and filtering technology where appropriate to help centralize and reduce costs.”

The webinar will last one hour: Daley will speak for approximately forty-five minutes, and then participants will have the opportunity to ask questions.

Sign up for All-In? Practical Approaches for Beating the “No-Limit” Game of E-Discovery Risk and Cost:

June 28 at 10:00 a.m. PT, 1:00 p.m. ET

Go here lumen_legal@betuitive.com to sign up and receive more information.