Learn the latest in E-Discovery!

Next month, the University of Florida's 11th Annual E-Discovery Conference takes place both virtually and in person on February 28 & 29, 2024. Panels will address challenges for complex cases and provide key takeaways that you can put into practice. The conference is centered squarely around practical education for matters of ESI and is perfect for lawyers and legal professionals of all levels. Spread over two full days, it’ll be a combination of several short talks, panel discussions with live Q&A, and product videos. The participants learn about decisions on electronic discovery with proportionality, BYOD, search terms and TAR, and issues in emerging technologies leading the way, including Artificial Intelligence and prompt engineering in AI. Also of interest are off-the- shelf programs such Slack and Microsoft Teams, as well as programs designed and tailored for specific industries or companies, are now ubiquitous. Collaboration programs produce diverse types and versions and large volumes of data located in multiple locations on myriad of devices, including ephemeral or fragile data.  As always, the case law panel will tackle the key decisions from this past year with a goal of providing practical takeaways. Register here-- https://reg.conferences.dce.ufl.edu/basic/1400090225

10th Annual Florida E-Discovery Conference

Be sure to register for the University of Florida's Tenth Annual E-Discovery Conference taking place next year both virtually and in person on February 8 & 9, 2023. Panels will address challenges for complex cases and provide key takeaways that you can put into practice. The conference is centered squarely around practical education for matters of ESI and is perfect for lawyers and legal professionals of all levels. Spread over two full days, it’ll be a combination of several short talks, panel discussions with live Q&A, and product videos. This year set another record for decisions on electronic discovery with proportionality, BYOD, search terms and TAR, and issues in emerging technologies leading the way. Also of interest are off-the- shelf programs such Slack and Microsoft Teams, as well as programs designed and tailored for specific industries or companies, are now ubiquitous. Collaboration programs produce diverse types and versions and large volumes of data located in multiple locations on myriad of devices, including ephemeral or fragile data.  The case law panel will tackle the key decisions from this past year with a goal of providing practical takeaways. Register here-- 10th Annual UF Law E-Discovery Conference (ufediscoveryconference.com)

Free Annual UF E-Discovery Conference Online

The University of Florida Levin College of Law returns March 23^rd and March 24^th 2022 for its 9^th Annual E-Discovery Conference. The Conference combines its topics, sessions and legal, technology, and E-discovery experts to address the challenges for matters and provide key takeaways that you can put into practice. The conference is centered squarely around practical education for matters that range from small to large and is perfect for lawyers and legal professionals of all levels. Spread over two full days (mornings and afternoons if you’re in the U.S.), it’ll be a combination of several short talks, panel discussions with live Q&A, and product videos. All sessions will be recorded and available for you to watch in your own time. To ensure content is as accessible as possible we will have close captioning during the event and pre-recorded content will be captioned as well.

During the 2-day conference will discuss various aspect of e-discovery including:

• Preparing for the Rule 26(f) and Rule 16 conferences
• Effectively handling e-discovery motions, objections, and hearings
• Managing proportionality
• Negotiation ESI Protocols
• Basic and advanced search techniques
• Maximizing document review speeds and accuracy.

See more here-- https://ufediscoveryconference.com/

 

Free Online E-Discovery Conference 3/18 with CLE

The 8th Annual University of Florida Levin College of Law E-Discovery Conference will be held  on March 18, 2021 featuring national and international experts who will examine strategies implementing practical and effective E-Discovery for your litigation matters. 

This year, they are offering the full-day conference completely online and free for all attendees with 9.5 General, 9.5 Technology and 1 Ethics Credits for The Florida Bar.

The daylong conference will discuss various aspects of E-Discovery including:

• THE INITIAL ASSESSMENT PROCESS
• COLLABORATION AND NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES
• COLLECTION CHALLENGES FROM TODAY’S EVOLVING DEVICES AND DATA SOURCES
• BASIC AND ADVANCED SEARCH TECHNIQUES
• MAXIMIZING DOCUMENT REVIEW SPEEDS AND ACCURACY.

It also features a famed judicial panel of district court and magistrate judges, E-Discovery case law panel, and a panel analyzing the E-Discovery impact of rapidly expanding national and international privacy regulations. See more information on registering here-- https://ufediscoveryconference.com

UF Law E-Discovery Conference Opportunity

For many years, I've attended the E-Discovery Conference at the University of Florida Levin College of Law run by Professor William “Bill” Hamilton, with whom I served on The Florida Bar Civil Rules Committee that wrote the Electronically Stored Information (ESI) amendments and the faculty of Florida's Advanced Judicial College where we taught judges how to implement the rules in cases. I have spoken at UF Law's Institute for Dispute Resolution and produced webinars in conjunction with them, as well. Recently, I learned that the E-Discovery program at UF is creating new career paths for law school graduates that do not involve billable hours working at a law firm. The law school is one of the first to provide law students hands-on knowledge of through its Distinguished Speaker Series and has now partnered with international company, Consilio, offering new graduates unique opportunities to learn the ESI business. What began as the E-Discovery Project is a multidisciplinary endeavor enhancing litigation competence through electronic discovery law courses, research, the development of information retrieval method and tools, and offering electronic discovery skills training for practicing attorneys and litigation support professionals through public conferences and continuing legal educational offerings. Their CareerFest usually occurs in conjunction with the annual conference, set for March 19, 2020, where alternative career paths for law school graduates are explored through presentations by companies in the legal service and technology industry. See more here-- https://tinyurl.com/yxetorw7 and https://tinyurl.com/k26rjqr 

Join me in Orlando at OCBA's Bench Bar Conference!

Tomorrow, April 11, 2014, I will be speaking on a few panels at the Orange County Bar Association's Bench Bar Conference at the Loews Royal Pacific Hotel at Universal Studios Orlando Resort. I am particularly excited about joining the Hon. David Baker, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Florida, on Advanced E-Discovery. We will be reviewing some of the proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, including 37(e) and 26(b)(1). Our CLE is actually occurring the same time that the federal civil rules advisory committee is meeting in Portland. Concerns about  proportionality moving factors to Rule 26(b)(1) were raised last fall at the Duke conference-- that it will shift the burden of proving proportionality to the party seeking discovery, that it will provide a new basis for refusing to provide discovery, and that it will increase litigation costs. None of these predicted outcomes is intended and the proposed committee note has been revised to address them. The note explains that the change does not place a burden of proving proportionality on the party seeking discovery and explains how courts should apply the proportionality factors. The note also states that the change does not support boilerplate refusals to provide discovery on the ground that it is not proportional, but should instead prompt a dialogue among the parties and, if necessary, the court. The Duke subcommittee was convinced that the proportionality considerations — which already govern discovery and parties’ conduct in discovery — should not and will not increase the costs of litigation. To the contrary, they maintain more proportional discovery will decrease the cost of resolving disputes in federal court without sacrificing fairness. See OCBA seminar agenda here-- http://www.orangecountybar.org/content/uploads/PDFs/Bench%20Bar%20Content%20by%20Session.pdf See advisory committee report here-- http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/RulesAndPolicies/rules/Agenda%20Books/Civil/CV2014-04.pdf