Timothy D. Edwards, is the founder of Edwards Law Group LLC, in Madison, and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he currently teaches pre-trial advocacy and trial advocacy. Tim’s practice focuses on electronic discovery consulting, business litigation and employment litigation. He can be reached at edwards@tdemadison.com.
8:30 a.m. : The Ethically Competent E-Discovery Practitioner
- SCR 20:1.1 - Recent developments addressing duty of competence in connection with electronically stored information o Amendments to Rule 1.1
o California State Bar opinion
o Confidentiality Issues
- Duty to understand the fundamental principles of e-discovery – an overview of spoliation, preservation, document retention issues
- Duty to understand the features and implementation of the litigation hold.
- Duty to acquire a strong understanding of technology surrounding the preservation, processing, and production of electronically stored information, including:
o client’s information management systems, including back up and storage systems, network
o the software and hardware programs that are used to review and process ESI
o potential sources of accessible (and inaccessible) data
o the meet and confer process and its relationship to competence
o conducting searches
o collecting and producing non-privileged ESI.
9:20 a.m. : New wine in an old bottle? Proportionality and its application to e-discovery
- Brief overview of amendments in the state and federal system
- Proportionality and cost-shifting in production issues
- Proportionality in the preservation process
- Creating a record
10:10 a.m. : Break
10:25 a.m. : Dealer’s Choice: How proportionality works in a hypothetical setting
- Cost-shifting strategies
- Motion practice
- Meet and confer process
11:15 a.m. : Program Concludes
Following program start times, webcast replay schedule will vary slightly from above listed times.
- Take a strategic approach to proportionality issues in the early stage of litigation
- Avoid the cost and expense of “over-preservation”
- Prevent and pursue sanctions for spoliation of evidence
- Leverage the “meet and confer process” to protect your client’s interests
- Civil litigators
- In-house counsel
- General practitioners
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