US Government regulators have specific and detailed requirements around the production of data, the use of technology and analytics tools, and the treatment of privileged information. This one-hour course will cover the essential elements related to the treatment of data in US Second Requests.

Analyst Ari Kaplan will share the results of his conversations with 30 in-house eDiscovery professionals about their eDiscovery and Information Governance operations to provide clear benchmarks for the future.

The course will focus on explaining what cost recovery and cost allocation are in the context of eDiscovery managed services, its ethical considerations, and how Epiq partners with clients to develop and implement custom processes key to facilitating the same. Attendees will come away with a clear idea of what eDiscovery managed services is and how they can implement a cost recovery or allocation program to assist with recuperating their eDiscovery expenses and what ethical considerations should be made.

State bar associations and courts have ruled that a lawyer’s ethical obligations extend to the realm of electronic discovery. Those obligations are enshrined in three fundamental ethical responsibilities – the duties of competence, supervision, and maintaining client confidentiality. This CLE will cover best practices for complying with these three ethical duties when conducting electronic discovery and will be conducted by two lawyers with significant litigation and discovery experience at major US law firms, as well as at leading eDiscovery providers. The course provides CLE credit for ethics.

Many law departments struggle with starting a metrics program. This session will address:

How to overcome the most common challenges of building a legal metrics program that translates data into outcomes

Cover the 7 keys for designing a legal metrics program that specifically meets your legal departments challenges

Creating sample dashboards that can be quickly implemented to demonstrate value

This program is intended to deliver a primer on modern Contract Lifecycle Management Technology and how Contract Analytics improves decision making through increased insight and smarter planning. Additionally, this program will dive into the ethics of artificial intelligence in the Legal profession, including the ethical considerations for practicing with AI.

The panel will discuss the peculiarities of Cyber Incident Response Review, from document processing to creating a notification list. They will explore the differences between a post-breach notification list creation review and an eDiscovery data production review, including review population identification, review processes and procedures, and designing your review with an eye toward the final output.