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What’s cool about the UF Law E-Discovery Conference is that anyone can attend via livestream.

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If you have not yet heard of the University of Florida Law E-Discovery Conference, you’re missing a seriously great legal education conference. It’s unlike any other conference. There’s no commercialism; no sponsors, banners, or booths; just solid educational content delivered from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 21, 2019, live from the Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom at UF Law School in Gainesville, Florida.

What’s cool about the UF Law E-Discovery Conference is that anyone can attend because in addition to being live in Gainesville (Tom Petty fans will know what I mean), the conference is also streamed live over the Internet for anyone who registers.

And unlike many legal technology conferences today, the UF Law E-Discovery Conference is imminently affordable. Registration is complimentary for law students, professors, judges and judicial staff, and employees of federal and state government agencies. For everyone else, in-person attendance is just $199 and the livestream costs just $99. “We are very happy to be providing first class e-discovery educational content for our students, alumni and bar for the 7th consecutive year,” says Bill Hamilton, UF Professor and Executive Director of the UF E-Discovery Project.

Another cool feature of the Conference is that it falls in “E-Discovery Month” at UF Law focusing on the education and professional development of law students, lawyers, and legal professionals. On Monday, March 11 at 12 noon, Ariana Tadler, the 2019 UF Law Spring E-Discovery Distinguished Speaker, will give a presentation titled “E-Discovery: The Plaintiff’s Perspective.” Her presentation will be broadcast online and is accessible here. On Wednesday, March 20, the day before the Conference, UF Law holds “CareerFest,” which is designed to give law students ideas on alternative career paths in legal technology. Jared Coseglia will be presenting at noon on “How Emerging Technology Is Creating Exciting Opportunities for Law School Graduates” as part of CareerFest.

A primary focus of the Conference this year is effectively managing discovery from the opposition. Opposing parties frequently hold the keys to the case, and the conference presenters this year are going to help make sure you get the data you are entitled to and give you some assurance that the opposition is properly identifying, collecting, and producing ESI.

In addition to e-discovery superstars from across the industry, the Conference will begin with a conversation with E.J. Bastien, Director of Discovery Programs, and Atanu Banerjee, Group Program Manager, both from Microsoft’s e-discovery team. You’re also going to see and hear panel discussions like “Making Sure You Get the Data You Deserve” and “Data on Mobile Devices: The Key to the Case.” And you’ll learn how to put together an effective ESI protocol in “Negotiating Our E-Discovery Protocol” or how to run an efficient document review in “Conducting a Thorough Review—With Both Sides in Mind.” (Full disclosure: I’ll be in Gainesville doing a panel on technology assisted review.) The Conference ends with a judicial panel of distinguished federal and state judges who will share their observations and provide us their views and suggestions on what they would like to see in the courtroom.

Now in its seventh year, the UF Law E-Discovery Conference is part of the University of Florida’s commitment to educating students on legal technology and continuing to provide alumni and the legal community affordable continuing legal education. For more information and details on how to register for the Conference, you may visit the Conference website here.

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Mike Quartararo

Mike Quartararo is the managing director of eDPM Advisory Services, a consulting firm providing e-discovery, project management and legal technology advisory and training services to the legal industry. He is also the author of the 2016 book Project Management in Electronic Discovery. Mike has many years of experience delivering e-discovery, project management, and legal technology solutions to law firms and Fortune 500 corporations across the globe and is widely considered an expert on project management, e-discovery and legal matter management. You can reach him via email at mquartararo@edpmadvisory.com. Follow him on twitter @edpmadvisory.

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