Article by Ann Snyder
On September 19th, the 2013 Masters Conference for Legal Professionals was held in Washington, DC. According to the conference’s website, the program “brings together leading experts and professionals from law firms, corporations and the bench to develop strategies, practices and resources for managing the information life cycle.” Both kudos and thanks are warranted for Robert Childress, President & CEO, and Lisa Lehman, Conference Director, for creating a forum at which individuals from across the legal tech industry can fruitfully exchange ideas for effectively addressing the recurrent and emerging issues they face.
Frank Canterino, Empire
Discovery’s CTO and Co-Founder, participated in the panel, “E-Discovery
Introduction: Best Practices & Key Cases.”
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for the panel abstract. The speakers
offered an introductory-level discussion of the basic issues which should be
considered by those new to e-discovery and those interested in improving their
approach. Topics included the importance
of establishing clear and open channels of communication and defining areas of
responsibility within e-discovery teams, ensuring that established procedures
are followed, and providing training for those new to the team and field. Mr. Canterino’s remarks focused on the
importance of proactively addressing e-discovery issues rather than facing down
the road the problems and expenses of not doing so. Canterino was joined on the panel by John
Kapp (Shearman & Sterling LLP), Kara
Buzga (Mayer Brown LLP), Barb Hanahan (Lockheed Martin), and Ignatius Grande (Hughes, Hubbard, & Reed,
LLP). Bruce Malter (D4, LLC) moderated.
The Masters Conference included programing appropriate for a
range of experience levels, offering basic, intermediate, and advanced
tracks. The topics covered ranged from
e-discovery project management and building a litigation support department to
issues raised by international e-discovery and discovery in the cloud to more
advanced topics like addressing security breaches and utilizing predictive
coding. One intermediate session, “Update from the
Bench,” offered a judicial perspective of best-practices in e-discovery.
The Masters Conference will continue in 2014,
offering programs in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London,
and Washington, DC.
