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James Shook, Esq. on LegalTech 2010
James D. Shook, Esq., CIPP
I had the privilege this week of being the moderator at Legal Tech for “eDiscovery War Stories: The Dirty Truth From the eDiscovery Trenches“. My panelists were Steven Teppler from Edelson McGuire; Jeff Seymour from Deloitte; and EMC’s own Matt Nelson.
We planned our session to talk about what really happens in eDiscovery — how shortcuts are sometimes taken, lawyers and IT people miscommunicate, repositories get missed and even good plans go awry — basically that stuff happens. We wanted to get these stories out in the open, have input from our audience and discuss why sometimes eDiscovery projects do not go as planned — and learn what can be done better.
In reality, our audience was extremely engaged and active, and we followed their lead. We covered about 25% of our planned material. One of our key points was discussing the frequent disconnect between Legal and IT, and how important it is for these two groups to communicate well to insure successful eDiscovery processes. One audience member thanked me for the best session of the day, saying that for her, the depth of detail and knowledge provided by our panelists was ideal.
In one final twist of irony, the best war story came not from a panelist, but from an audience member! Interesting that after all of our preparation, we covered very little of what we planned. But given our topic — I guess that was pretty fitting.
[Special thanks to a great audience and our panelists!}
Posted By: David in eDiscovery on February 9th, 2010.
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