Every December, thousands of lawyers scramble to find CLE credits to meet their requirements. Here’s your chance to meet half your annual requirements in one day, get fantastic, practical, education from industry experts you can immediately apply to your practice, AND get better at eDiscovery. It’s win-win.
Next Thursday, March 21st, is the 7th Annual University of Florida eDiscovery Conference. The event is sold out in person in Gainesville, but conference mastermind and my good friend Bill Hamilton has it set up again this year so you can livestream the entire day from your couch, office, bed, or back deck. The whole day will cost you $99.
The agenda this year kicks off with a Discussion with Microsoft: Office 365 and More with E.J. Bastian, Director of Discovery Programs and Atanu Banarjee, Group Program Manager for Office 365. In January at Legaltech, Microsoft announced what may be some game-changing enhancements to O365 and I’m hoping E.J. and Atanu will give us some details on how users can leverage the new functionality to cut costs and do better discovery.
This year, the program focuses on getting discovery from the other side — knowing that winning your case may just be about asking for the right data. Topics include: Making Sure You Get the Data You Need, Data on Mobile Devices, Making Keyword Search Work, Negotiating Your eDiscovery Protocol, Conducting a Thorough Review, Nuts and Bolts of eDiscovery, What to Do When the Other Side Wants to Use TAR, and the ever-popular judicial panel on not only what the judges are seeing, but what they WANT to see from you.
Questions are encouraged during the event from both in person and online attendees, and we address those questions right in the middle of the sessions. Don’t be shy about speaking up. I’m lucky to be involved both planning the event this year and participating on the ESI protocol panel, a subject that I’ve talked about recently. As panelists, we give our time to help other attorneys and legal professionals learn and develop their practice, but I’ll tell you a secret: I always leave with great tips and tricks we can leverage for our clients.
This conference brings together professionals handling eDiscovery in matters ranging from the smallest case to the largest complex cases and regulatory investigations. The list of presenters is a Who’s Who of attorneys, software CEOs, judges, and legal support professionals who are on the front lines of these issues every day. It’s a group that I am humbled to be a part of and that I can’t wait to learn from this year. For those of you joining us in person, the event will be followed by a reception in the courtyard at the Law School.
If you’ve joined us for some or all of this event in the past, you don’t need to be sold on the value. eDiscovery isn’t a fad that’s going away — instead it’s growing in importance and complexity, and this conference will help you get on top of what’s happening now. Join us. You can register here. The conference is recorded and available to registrants for six months afterwards, and all materials can be downloaded by registrants.
I’m looking forward to the warm sunshine in Florida, so if you’ll be there in person, be sure to come say hi.
See you there.
Kelly Twigger gave up the golden handcuffs of her Biglaw partnership to start ESI Attorneys, an eDiscovery and information law Firm, in 2009. She is passionate about teaching lawyers and legal professionals how to think about and use ESI to win, and does so regularly for her clients. The Wisconsin State Bar named Kelly a Legal Innovator in 2014 for her development of eDiscovery Assistant— an online research and eDiscovery playbook for lawyers and legal professionals. When she’s not thinking, writing or talking about ESI, Kelly is wandering in the mountains of Colorado, or watching Kentucky basketball. You can reach her by email at Kelly@ediscoveryassistant.com or on Twitter: @kellytwigger.
