Steven W. Teppler, Esq., Partner at EdelsonMcGuire (formerly KamberEdeldon), LCC and author of Digital Evidence LifeCycle Management – A Guide for Enterprise, Attorneys, and Technologists joins EMC’s super sessions on February 2nd at LegalTech in New York. The first session, Authenticity and Admissibility: Enterprise ESI Management, Information Governance and the Chain of Custody challenge, discusses the challenges and issues surrounding electronically stored information (ESI) in today’s enterprise environments and the impact on business operations, legal professionals and IT experts. The second session, eDiscovery War Stories: The Dirty Truth from the eDiscovery Trenches, is eDiscovery experts sharing their first-hand eDiscovery experiences.


“eDiscovery is an emerging and rapidly developing practice. With ESI’s ever-increasing usage, legal and information technology professionals alike need to stay abreast of eDiscovery developments to make informed business and legal decisions. Steven’s experience as an eDiscovery pioneer is invaluable. We look forward to the release of his new book, which will likely be a desk reference for both legal professionals and technologist,” says J. David Morris of EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon.

Mr. Teppler’s new book is Digital Evidence LifeCycle Management – A Guide for Enterprise, Attorneys, and Technologists.  This book (expected publication Spring 2010) presents the digital evidentiary schema as a continuum (a.k.a. an evidentiary “life cycle”) with different phases. These phases are: (1) Information Generation (or first instantiation); (2) Enterprise Use and Disposition, (3) Pretrial (eDiscovery through Summary Judgment) and (4) Use at Trial.  Each of these phases also presents evidentiary issues uniquely inherent to digital evidence, and the discussion of each phase will in turn provide in depth examination of core digital evidentiary issues (integrity, authentication, and custodianship) together with a presentation of challenges, defenses and the use of experts likely to arise during each phase.

“Digital Evidence Life Cycle Management ventures beyond data identification and acquisition, and provides an in-depth analysis of custody and integrity issues inherent to each phase of the digital evidence life cycle. The goal of this book is to give attorneys, technologists and enterprise guidance for robust evidence generation and management,” says Steven Teppler, Esq.  “In similar manner, the Discovery War Stories panel and Authentication and Admissibility panels will discuss both early life-cycle as well as discovery-centric evidentiary missteps, how they might be avoided, and what challenges and opportunities await those seeking ESI authentication and admissibility in 21st Century litigation.”

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