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Keys to Efficient Document Review: Practical Strategies for Reducing Costs and Streamlining the Review Process

Course Description:

Developing search and review strategies that fit into the legal and factual framework of every case is tough — it can also destroy timelines and break budgets.  In fact, it’s estimated that $3.3 billion will be spent on document preservation, collection and production in litigation this year alone.

This comprehensive audio conference offers practical tips and strategies that help you plan and execute a more efficient and streamlined document review process.  From the initial preparation to review, quality control to competition, this must-attend program will guide you through the most effective way to conduct a document review from start to finish. 

CoursE highlights:

During this information-packed program, our expert faculty will provide you and your colleagues with concrete steps to:

• Create, review and control the quality of the entire cycle of the document review process
• Understand how predictive coding, concept clustering, and key term searching work
• Train the right lawyers with the right training materials and tests, and assure that they can navigate the process and find the documents most critical and useful to the case
• Cut through the statistical clutter and understand which figures matter and which ones to ignore
• Manage the lifecycle of the document review process internally and with your chosen vendor
• Understand the most common document review pitfalls and how to avoid them

Featured Faculty:

Robert D. Rowe, Managing Director, V3locity®

Bob focuses on providing project management and comprehensive e-discovery solutions for legal matters to Fortune 500 corporations and law firms.

Bob has deep experience in integrating e-discovery processes and leads V3locity® - Huron’s end-to-end e-discovery solution, encompassing processing, hosting, document review and production. He also manages Huron’s seven customized document review facilities, which have readily scalable resources to engage more than 950 review professionals. These services provide a cost-certain alternative fee structure, including an optimized document review process that is substantially faster, more accurate and less expensive that more traditional review services – typically by a margin of 50%.

Prior to joining Huron, Bob was President/CEO of Nextra Litigation Solutions – a company providing document review solutions for legal matters – and a Member of Nexsen Pruet LLC, the law firm that owned Nextra. Prior to that time, he spent ten years practicing antitrust law in Washington, DC with several AmLaw 100 firms. Prior to attending law school, he served overseas in the United States Army as a Captain in Military Intelligence, during which time he received the Army Commendation Medal and the Ranger Tab.

Steven Berrent, Managing Director, WilmerHale Discovery Solutions

Steven Berrent is the managing director of WilmerHale Discovery Solutions. His primary responsibilities include leading the firm’s efforts with respect to developing and implementing strategies and staffing models for the management of complex litigation/controversy matters with specific emphasis on e-discovery, document review and bringing added value to WilmerHale clients through WilmerHale Discovery Solutions. He joined the firm in 2008.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Berrent was the director of Litigation Services at another firm in New York, where he managed more than 100 paralegals, legal technologists, case managers and staff attorneys. He also advised clients, attorneys and case teams on issues relating to electronic documents, e-discovery and information management. Previously, Mr. Berrent was an associate at a firm in New York, where he was a member of the Electronic Discovery Task Force and worked on complex commercial litigations, arbitrations and investigations in diverse industries.

Mr. Berrent has worked as the Director of Information Technology for Vice President Al Gore’s presidential campaign, where he designed, implemented, and maintained computer networks and related technologies for the campaign and advised the Vice President and staff on information technology issues, solutions and strategy.

Robert Brownstone, Technology & eDiscovery Counsel, and Co-Chair, Electronic Information Management Group , Fenwick & West LLP

Mr. Brownstone advises clients on electronic discovery, electronic information management, retention/destruction policies and protocols, information-security and privacy. He also collaborates with clients as to computer solutions enabling compliance with legal obligations.

A nationwide speaker and writer on many law and technology issues, Mr. Brownstone is frequently quoted in the press as an expert on electronic information. He also teaches Electronic Discovery classes at the University of San Francisco School (USF) of Law and Santa Clara University School of Law.

He is a member of: four state bars (including California and New York); the Information Systems Auditing and Control Association (ISACA); and the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA). Mr. Brownstone is also the Chair of the executive committee of the State Bar of California's Law Practice Management and Technology (LPMT) Section.

He serves on the Advisory Board of the National Employment Law Institute (NELI) and on the Board of Editors of ALM’s Internet Law & Strategy newsletter. In 2006, Mr. Brownstone was named a Northern California Super Lawyer and featured in a cover story of ABA’s Law Practice Magazine.

Before joining Fenwick & West in 2000, Mr. Brownstone had a varied 13-year career as a litigator, law school administrator, law school teacher and consultant.

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