Session One: Applying Technology to Address Discovery Challenges Today and Tomorrow

Wednesday, August 4, 2021 | 5-6 PM PDT

Presented by: Doug Austin from eDiscovery Today. Introduction by Marla Mohr, President of ACEDS Orange County and Legal Technology Consultant

In today’s world of dramatically increased remote work due to the pandemic, growing data privacy concerns with GDPR, CCPA and other data privacy legislation, increase in harassment claims with #metoo and rising corporate malfeasance concerns, organizations have more challenges than ever that require the application of discovery technology and workflows even if those challenges never lead to litigation. This session will discuss the drivers and challenges facing organizations today to leverage technology and best practices to address today’s evolving discovery needs. Topics include:

• Challenges Posed by BIG Data and Variety of Data Sources
• Data Privacy Trends and Challenges
• Challenges from #metoo and Corporate Malfeasance
• Key Stats and Challenges Regarding Data Breaches
• The Move to Remote Work and Collaboration
• Will Information Governance Bail Us Out of This Mess?
• Data Discovery vs. Legal Discovery
• Technology to Address Challenges Today and Tomorrow
• Predictions for the Future
• Recommendations for Addressing Discovery Challenges

*Attendees are eligible for One Hour of CA MCLE.

Session Two: High Precision Models

Friday, August 6, 2021 | 12 – 1 PM PDT

Presented by George Socha, Senior Vice President of Brand Awareness at Reveal – Brainspace. Introduction by Marla Mohr, President of ACEDS Orange County and Legal Technology Consultant.

In this session, we will demonstrate the newest advancement to the TAR workflow – High Precision Classification. It allows the users to provide highly focused feedback to the model about the parts of content that makes a particular document responsive. With this more precise input the model learns faster and more efficiently. In addition, during scoring the model analyzes documents on a finer level of granularity and provides insights to the most relevant passages back to the user. This allows for a higher level of interactivity and insights between the user and the model. With this approach you can pursue more highly refined and nuanced strategies for finding the data that matters most for your needs and achieve your goals significantly faster.

*Attendees are eligible for One Hour of CA MCLE.

Session Three: The Modern Mess of Mobile Discovery

Saturday, August 7, 2021 | 9 – 10 AM PDT

Trent Livingston, CEO of ESI Analysis; Introduction by Marla Mohr, President of ACEDS Orange County and Legal Technology Consultant.

Today’s mobile-centric world has expanded means of communications, compounding discovery costs and complicating the courtroom. Corporate discovery, once rooted in email, now goes well beyond the confines of office walls. No longer can the legal world ignore the multitude of communication mediums. Step into the maniacal world of mobile data that spans Slack, WhatsApp, Teams, iMessage, SMS, TikTok and more!

*Attendees are eligible for One Hour of CA MCLE.

Session Four: Body Cam

Saturday, August 7, 2021 | 10:30 – 11:30 AM PDT

Presented Sean C. Tyler, ACP, Paralegal, Prosecution Technology Unit, Strategic Justice Systems, Criminal & Special Litigation Branch, Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney. Introduction by Grady Glover, Vice President of ACEDS Orange County and eDiscovery Manager at Sanders Roberts, LLP.

*Attendees are eligible for One Hour of CA MCLE.

Session Five: Hot Topics in eDiscovery: 2021 Case Law Update

Wednesday, August 11, 2021 | 5 – 6 PM PDT

Presented by Phil Favro, Consultant at Driven, Inc. Introduction by Grady Glover, Vice President of ACEDS Orange County and eDiscovery Manager at Sanders Roberts, LLP.

2021 has already ushered in a number of eDiscovery developments that clients and counsel should be aware of. These developments include new trends regarding the increasing incidence of court-ordered forensic exams, whether privilege log deficiencies truly merit in camera review, and counsel’s ethical obligation to disclose client spoliation events. This program will cover cases addressing these topics and spotlight recommendations for addressing the issues.

Topics covered include court decisions addressing:

• Whether traditional family production practices should apply to communications that reference hyperlinked documents
• When unilateral relevance redactions are appropriate
• The circumstances when parties must produce relevant Slack data
• ESI spoliation sanctions
• The interplay between procedural and evidentiary rules in connection with spoliation motions

*Attendees are eligible for One Hour of CA MCLE.

Session Six: California Roundtable – A Discussion of the 2020 changes to handling eDiscovery under California law.

Saturday, August 14, 2021 | 9 – 10 AM PDT

Presented by Gareth Evans, Partner at Redgrave, LLP, Joy Murao, Founder and CEO of Practice Aligned Resources and President of ACEDS Los Angeles. Moderated by Grady Glover, Vice President of ACEDS Orange County and eDiscovery Manager at Sanders Roberts, LLP.

18 months after the adoption of changes to the California Code of Civil Procedure (CCP), how are attorneys, law firms, and service providers and clients coping with the increased burden these changes create? Specifically, the changes to CCP Section 2031.280(a), which eliminated the option to produce documents as they were kept in the usual course of business. Is anyone opting into the provisions of CCP Section 2016.090, the new optional FRCP Rule 26 analogue? What case law has been generated so far on these new provisions, if any? Has anyone received the new $250 document production sanction? Was it reportable?

This program will cover how certain law firms and service providers are dealing with these new hurdles when handling eDiscovery in cases under California law.

Topics covered include court decisions addressing:

• Do these changes really “provide more streamlined and responsive document production(s)?”
• Not slight at all — the additional burdens far exceed “the slight expense of the producing parties”, as contemplated by the state assembly.
• Or, do these changes dramatically drive up costs for all parties…
• New $250 sanctions, is anyone asking?
• Why does opting into the provisions of CCP Section 2016.090 make sense? Will that reduce some of these new costs?

*Attendees are eligible for One Hour of CA MCLE.