Legal Tech New York

2012

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about streamlining eDiscovery from information
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Join Symantec at LegalTech New York 2012

Symantec is looking forward to LegalTech this year and with the acquisition of Clearwell and LiveOffice we have numerous exciting developments to share. Also, we've put together an informative set of sessions with leading eDiscovery thought leaders and are bringing New York's top gourmet food truck with us to provide attendees with complimentary food.

We invite you to join the discussion in one of our sessions featuring a distinguished lineup of industry experts, judges, and eDiscovery practitioners. By attending a Symantec session, you'll also have more opportunities to enter in our Twitter contest for great prizes like the MacBook Air and Bose noise cancelling headphones.

When IT Departments Go Rogue – eDiscovery and Cloud Computing

Monday, January 30 | 10:30AM - 12:30PM | Petit Trianon

The promise and momentum of cloud computing is undeniable, but what happens when the IT department goes rogue and migrates company data into the cloud without consulting the legal department? Join Browning Marean, Esq. from DLA Piper, LLP, Katey Wood, top eDiscovery analyst from Enterprise Strategy Group, and Matthew Nelson, Esq., eDiscovery Attorney from Symantec for a lively discussion about the pros and cons of cloud computing and eDiscovery. Learn what legal and practical issues organizations should consider before migrating data into the cloud and hear about recent trends for discovering ESI in the cloud. Key topics will include:

What happens when data that was once at the IT department’s fingertips now resides off-site and can’t be easily accessed?
Is ESI stored in the cloud still under the organization’s possession, custody, and control for eDiscovery purposes?
Who is responsible for retrieving ESI stored in the cloud during discovery and should organizations expect the court’s leniency when their ESI cannot be easily retrieved?

Speakers:

Browning Marean, DLA Piper, LLP
Katey Wood, eDiscovery analyst , Enterprise Strategy Group
Matthew Nelson, eDiscovery Counsel, Symantec

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Getting Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Using Proactive Information Governance to Address the Challenges of eDiscovery, Information Security and Data Privacy

Monday, January 30 | 10:00AM - 11:00AM | Petit Trianon

Industry surveys consistently show that organizations which meet the challenges of information management, data security and eDiscovery typically do so with proactive information governance. This begs the question of what your organization is doing about the increasing complexities posed by the data explosion? Our panel of experts will provide a variety of perspectives on the issues and describe how proactive governance empowered by technology can provide solutions. The discussion points will include::

Developing retention policies that will capture communications and other pertinent information from employer and employee-owned devices;
Creating protocols to protect sensitive business information from disclosure while also respecting the privacy rights of employees;
Preparing an intelligent litigation response to avoid ineffective eDiscovery practices.

Speakers:

The Honorable David Waxse, United States Magistrate Judge, District of Kansas
Alexander G. Arato, Vice-President, Associate General Counsel for CA
Allison Brecher, Senior Litigation Counsel and Director of Information Management & Strategy for Marsh & McLennan Companies
Philip Favro, eDiscovery Attorney, Symantec Corporation.

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Clearwell & Symantec - How the Leaders in Archiving and eDiscovery Are Continuing to Innovate

Monday, January 30 | 12:45PM - 1:30PM | Petit Trianon

Join the Symantec eDiscovery product management team as they discuss the future direction of Symantec’s portfolio of eDiscovery solutions. With recent acquisitions of Clearwell and LiveOffice, there are exciting new developments expected to be delivered in the coming year. The session will cover Symantec’s holistic vision of end-to-end eDiscovery from information management through production, which will enable corporations, government agencies, and law firms to better meet their eDiscovery requirements cost effectively and defensibly.

Speakers:

Kurt Leafstrand, Director, Product Management, Symantec

Man v. Machine: The Promise and Challenge of Predictive Coding and Other Disruptive Technologies

Monday, January 30 | 12:30PM - 1:30PM | West Grand Ballroom

In 2012, emerging, disruptive technologies are showing great promise for the legal field, specifically in the areas of classification, retention, and review. As technology begins to understand the context of information and apply it to the nuances of legal decisions in a way once exclusively reserved for the human practitioner, one must examine how technology will change the legal practices of today. This session will examine predictive coding as a case study of how disruptive technologies have both great promise and legitimate challenges in the Legal industry.

In one corner is the human document review process. While well-established it’s also now clear that the eyes-on methodology can have significant drawbacks both in cost and accuracy. In the other corner, a range of artificial intelligence technologies have shown promise in enabling enhanced precision and recall through a range of Technology Assisted Review (TAR) features such as email threading, clustering, concept search and predictive coding. And yet, despite the buzz they haven’t gained widespread adoption.

In this general session, vocal Jurist and U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York, Andrew Peck, leads a panel of industry experts that will discuss a range of hot topics including: How defensible are these TAR techniques and do they merely need to be more accurate than an average human document review? Are certain use cases (like internal investigations and governmental inquiries) better suited for the use of TAR tools? How does the role of attorneys change in a TAR workflow? Would a producing party ever need to validate their TAR approach after a Daubert challenge?

Speakers:

Judge Andrew Peck, U.S. Magistrate Judge Southern District of New York
Ralph Losey, National eDiscovery Counsel, Jackson Lewis, LLP
Dean Gonsowski, eDiscovery Counsel, Symantec

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An Army of One - Can One Attorney Do the Work of 500 With Predictive Coding Technology?

Monday, January 30 | 3:30PM - 4:30PM | Petit Trianon

NPR recently said that Technology Assisted Review (TAR) could let "one attorney do the work of 500." While that's likely hyperbole, new advances in TAR, particularly predictive coding, allow attorneys to better leverage these exciting new technologies.

Speakers:

Shawn Cheadle, General Counsel Surveillance and Navigation Systems, Lockheed Martin
Brendan M. Schulman, Special Counsel, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, LLP,
Matthew Nelson, eDiscovery Counsel, Symantec
Kurt Leaftstrand, Director of Product Management , Symantec

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Money Never Sleeps and Neither Does Social Media: FINRA's View is the Future

Monday, January 30 | 2:00PM - 3:00PM | Petit Trianon

In 2011 we reached the tipping point with 58 percent of respondents to a recent ESG survey saying they will have to manage social media applications as part of eDiscovery, more than double the 27 percent who did so in 2010. That's not only a massive increase in one year, but it also moves social media from a fringe element to a mainstream source of ESI. When asked what types of social media applications were the most relevant for eDiscovery, 79 percent of survey respondents named Facebook, followed by Twitter (64 percent) and LinkedIn (55 percent). The financial services industry is the first regulated vertical that is truly embracing the archiving of social media due to FINRA's regulations and clear guidance. We predict this will happen more and more as social media becomes the most prevalent data source.

Surprisingly, very few practitioners actually seem prepared to effectively handle social media and a recent survey by the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) noted that "[w]ritten policies for social media are non-existent." This will not suffice in the future as organizations are going to have to address social media usage and prepare their infrastructures for the ability to archive relevant social media. We will examine how to successfully institute a policy and technology to archive social media as well as touch on the data privacy concerns surrounding social media usage.

Speakers:

Debbi Corej, Recently of Prudential, VP of Compliance
Melanie Kalemba, VP Business Development, Socialware
David Shonka, Esq.- Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission and Head of the eDiscovery Steering Committee
Lisa Sotto, Esq.- Partner and Head of the Global Privacy and Data Security Team, Hunton & Williams LLP
Allison Jane Walton, Esq. – eDiscovery Counsel, Symantec

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