DATE & TIME: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Registration: 6:30 pm Seminar: 7:00 pm

The eDiscovery process is filled with challenges that can drive up cost and risk. CEOs are asking their IT, Legal and HR department for guidance on how to ensure compliance with new legislation around Information Governance and to be prepared for internal and regulatory investigations.

Be prepared for today’s urgent needs and tomorrow’s impending requirements. Join Quest and EMC at a seminar where experts will talk about how you can be prepared for litigation and audits by reinforcing proactive, systematic, repeatable business processes within your organization.

At this complimentary dinner seminar learn how EMC SourceOne delivers comprehensive information governance solutions and enables you to take a proactive approach to legal requests, ensuring litigation readiness. Find out how EMC SourceOne:

• Empowers your organization with classification, security, retention, proper disposition and access to information

• EMC SourceOne eDiscovery-Kazeon allows you to discover and manage content and apply a secure legal hold across a variety of repositories

• EMC SourceOne eDiscovery-Kazeon provides secure authorized investigator access, defensible collection results, and chain of custody

• Automates the eDiscovery process and quickly deploys and configures your in-house solution in days and weeks versus months.

DATE & TIME: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Registration: 6:30 pm Seminar: 7:00 pm

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LOCATION: Morton’s The Steakhouse 400 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94102 415-986-5830

“This is an excellent opportunity to meet and chat with eDiscovery expert attorneys to learn the latest industry best practices,” J. David Morris, EMC eDiscovery Division.

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HOPKINTON, Mass., April 8

HOPKINTON, Mass., April 8 /PRNewswire/ — EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that in just one year since its introduction, more than 400 organizations worldwide have adopted EMC SourceOne™. Customers including Northampton Borough Council, Ogilvy South Africa and TOMRA are deploying EMC SourceOne to help them manage risks, simplify e-discovery and cut storage costs.

U.K. Public Agency Controls Storage Growth and Promotes Compliance

The Northampton Borough Council employs over 1,500 people in a vast range of jobs to serve the 200,000 people who live within the largest borough in England. The borough council had high production storage costs due to the growth of e-mail messages and proliferation of PST files. In addition, it needed to comply with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) which requires a multi-year retention policy.

“EMC SourceOne is enabling us to eliminate nearly 400 gigabytes of PST files which reduces our storage production costs and improves our back-up window,” said Carl Moreton, Enterprise Systems Project Analyst at Northampton Borough Council. “And now that all of our archived e-mail is stored in one repository, we can easily manage our retention policy to meet FOIA compliance. On top of that, the flexible, easy-to-use search tool is becoming very popular with our users.”

Ad Agency Reins in IT Costs and Reduces E-mail Retrieval Time from Two Weeks to Just Minutes

Ogilvy South Africa, an advertising agency, needed to avoid using up all available disk space in their e-mail servers and evolve its e-mail storage strategy to minimize exhaustion of IT resources while reining in costs.

“With EMC SourceOne, we are able to minimize IT costs by curbing the growth of our production e-mail environment and reducing the time for back-up, defragmentation and restore processes,” said David Breytenbach, Group IT Manager at Ogilvy South Africa. “We accomplished this with no end-user training required and the whole process was transparent to the users.”

“In addition, e-mail retrieval for e-discovery requests has historically been a challenge sometimes taking up to two weeks,” said Breytenbach. “Since EMC SourceOne was implemented, the whole process can now be performed by any IT support staff within minutes.”

Global Provider of Recycling Solutions Proactively Manages Growth of Production E-mail Environment

With the mission of “Helping the World Recycle,” TOMRA is a leading global provider of advanced solutions enabling recovery and recycling of materials. The company required a solution that would slow down the growth of its production e-mail environment and quickly produce e-mails for litigation-readiness.

“One of the real benefits of EMC SourceOne is eliminating the time-consuming process of restoring back-up tapes when we need e-mails for legal purposes,” said Kyle Burke, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at TOMRA. “With all of our e-mails ingested, we can easily search the EMC SourceOne archive. We are also proactively managing the growth of our Exchange server and have reduced the risks of unmanaged data by collecting and archiving PST files.”

EMC SourceOne Overview

• Organizations need to build an information governance strategy to manage the growing volume of information. Information governance encompasses the people, practices and technology to proactively manage and take control of what and where information is stored, who has access to the information and how it is protected as well as how long the information is retained.

• Unveiled in April 2009, EMC SourceOne is a family of modular, integrated products for archiving, compliance and e-discovery that makes information governance actionable.

• EMC SourceOne enables policy-based information management so customers can improve operational efficiency, ensure compliance and mitigate risks.

• Core to EMC SourceOne is an innovative, next-generation architecture that provides high availability and flexibility. Its unique design operates efficiently in a single server for midsize companies and public agencies and scales horizontally to meet the needs of large global organizations.

• The EMC SourceOne portfolio of information governance solutions includes EMC SourceOne Email Management, EMC SourceOne Discovery Manager, EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon and EMC SourceOne Email Supervisor. The modularity of EMC SourceOne allows customers of all sizes to start with their most pressing information management challenges and expand over time.

Join the EMC SourceOne communities on the EMC SourceOne Insider Blog, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the EMC Community Network.

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

EMC is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation and its subsidiaries. EMC SourceOne is a trademark of EMC Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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Andrew M. Cohen, Esq., VP & GM of EMC SourceOne eDiscovery - Kazeon

by Lora Bentley, IT Business Edge

Lora Bentley spoke with Andrew Cohen, Vice President and General Manager of EMC SourceOne eDiscovery in the  Content Management and Archiving Division of EMC Corporation, on why companies should care about e-discovery requirements and how to best approach improving their e-discovery system and efforts.

Bentley: How much do businesses focus on e-discovery requirements now?

Cohen: Historically, corporations have not focused on e-discovery requirements, but that has changed since the changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and some famous legal cases, including Zublake v. USB Warburg.  Numerous corporations have recently been sanctioned and fined because of their failure to identify, collect and produce electronically stored information (ESI) as required by the rules and the case law.

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Other noted guests included the authors of the new book eDiscovery for Dummies by Dr. Linda Volonino and Ian Redpath, Esq., who signed copies of their book at EMC’s booth. By popular demand straight from LegalTech, Dr Volonino and Ian Redpath, Esq., will deliver their LegalTech presentation via webinar on March 3rd. Visit www.kazeon.com/newsroom2/webinars.php to register for this limited attendance event.

“Bringing eDiscovery In-House for Dummies: In-sourcing, Outsourcing and eDiscovery Zen”
With the original author of “Bringing eDiscovery In-House for Dummies”, Jake Frazier, MBA, Esq., leading the LegalTech session on “Bringing eDiscovery In-House for Dummies: In-sourcing, Outsourcing and eDiscovery Zen”, which built and expanded on the original text to discuss new developments and trends in In-House eDiscovery practices. Panelists included David C. Shonka, Esq., Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission and he heads the FTC’s E-Discovery Steering Committee, Jake Frazier, MBA, Esq., Greg Buckles, independent eDiscovery expert, William E. O’Neil Esq., EMC eDiscovery expert, James D. Shook, Esq., EMC eDiscovery expert and Ari Kaplan as moderator from Ari Kaplan Advisors.

Between our super sessions and booth, Kazeon gave away nearly 1,000 copies of Bringing eDiscovery In-House for Dummies by EMC’s own Jake Frazier, MBA, Esq., and Senior Director of EMC’s Compliance and eDiscovery Practice. The book helps analyze the issues surrounding in-house eDiscovery so that you can determine what is right for your organization. You’ll see what processes can effectively be brought into your operation, and what challenges you’ll face in implementing those changes. Register for your free copy of the book here http://www.kazeon.com/ediscovery-dummies.php.

Due to audience demand, the presentation by David Shonka, Esq., of the Federal Trade Commission has had a repeat performance and it will be available for viewing at Kazeon.com on Feb. 17. The webinar was recorded and is available at www.kazeon.com/newsroom2/webinars.php.

eDiscovery War Stories
“eDiscovery War Stories: The Dirty Truth from the eDiscovery Trenches” was moderated by James D. Shook, Esq., of EMC expert eDiscovery team. The panelists were Steven Teppler from Edelson McGuire; Jeff Seymour from Deloitte; and EMC’s own Matt Nelson.

The plan was 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. The panelist wanted to get these stories out in the open, have input from the 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. An audience member thanked James and the other panelists 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!

“The Future of eDiscovery: Emerging Trends in Law and Technology and How it will Impact your Business”

With eDiscovery pioneers and special guest Robert D. Owen from Fulbright & Jaworski, Farrah Pepper from Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher, George Socha, Esq., and Andrew M. Cohen, Esq., from EMC, Jake Frazier, MBA, Esq., was in top form to moderate the noted panel. The session discussed the law, recent cases and rulings, as well as how new technology has impacted the business and law surrounding eDiscovery. One attendee characterized it session as “powerful and insightful.”

eDiscovery StraightTalk
A topic of discussion at LegalTech was Judge Scheindlin recent opinion. Kazeon delivers insoght into her opinion in our blog eDiscovery StraightTalk with James D. Shook, Esq., entitled “New Decision Orders Sanctions… But Provides Strong Guidance.” The article discusses the very recent decision by Judge Scheindlin in the Pension Committee vs. Banc of America Securities et. al case. Her decision provides the eDiscovery community with some clear guidance on appropriate litigation hold and collection procedures, as well as a framework for determining when sanctions are appropriate and the level of those sanctions. Read more in Mr. Shook’s explanation of the decision in his blog post for the Kazeon blog…Discover.

Bringing eDiscovery in-house
The buzz of the show was the topic of bringing eDiscovery in-house, which attendees were very interested in discussing with EMC Kazeon executives. Although several vendors, including ECM have been championing in-house eDiscovery for several years, the tipping point is happening now, says Kazeon in its blog. Kazeon says http://www.kazeon.com/blog/2010/02/emckazeon-at-legaltech-in-house-is-hot/: “The question customer should ask is ‘With all the sanctions and fines leveled by Judges in eDiscovery cases, can your company provide the support to deploy eDiscovery, manage the complexity of integrating into our data centers and provide process and legal best practices to support us before, during and potentially after ligation?’ If the answer to this question is anything less than an unequivocal YES then customers must think again about their provider.”

Read more about that and other news from Kazeon at the Kazeon Web site http://www.kazeon.com/ and the Kazeon blog http://www.kazeon.com/blog/, written by legal professionals.

J. David Morris, EMC

Andrew M. Cohen, Esq, GM of EMC eDiscovery and moderator of the session reveals the Ten eDiscovery Commandments:


The first commandment: Thou shalt exhibit competence and avoid pleading technological ignorance

The second commandment: Thou shalt cooperate and be transparent

The third commandment: Thou shalt comply with the “duty of preserve evidence”

The fourth commandment: Thou shalt take meet and confer conferences seriously

The 5th commandment: Thou shalt educate thyself (and thine outside counsel) as to thine systems and what is & is not feasible

The sixth Commandment: Thou shalt not misrepresent thine systems capabilities or lack thereof

The seventh commandment: Thou shalt identify “inaccessible” data sources during discovery

The eight commandment: Thou shalt cooperate with counsel to conduct search terms

The 9th commandment: Thou shalt remember Rules ! and 26(g) regarding cost/proportionality

10th commandment: Thou shalt be wary of eDiscovery sanctions if these commandments are ignored (see above 9 commandments)

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“This session is one of the jewels of LegalTech.  The Judges frankness on the subject, I believe, signals that there are no more “free passes” when it comes to eDiscovery in the State of New York, much less elsewhere, ” says J. David Morris EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon.


Seating is limited so register to reserve your seat with the Judges.

The super session “The Ten eDiscovery Commandments: The Judges Speak” with noted guest speakers The Honorable Andrew J. Peck and The Honorable Frank Maas at LegalTech New York on Feb 2nd, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. in room SS1 on Concourse C.  CLE credit is available for this session; however, session attendance is limited.  Send an email to reserve your seat, email or register online at http://www.kazeon.com/newsroom2/legaltech.php.

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The big news….In-House eDiscovery.  Although several vendors like EMC have been championing In-House eDiscovery for several years, this year is when In-House eDiscovery has come into its own.  Why?  Well, there are numerous reasons…but let’s say it is at the tipping point.


In-House eDiscovery is being touted by every company at LegalTech.  The question customer should ask is “With all the sanctions and fines leveled by Judges in eDiscovery cases, can your company provide the support to deploy eDiscovery, manage the complexity of  integrating into our data centers and provide process and legal best practices to support us before, during and potentially after ligation?”  If the answer to this question is anything less than an “unequivocal YES”….then customers must think again about their provider.

Tomorrow is likely to be even a more chaotic day, as the West Coasters will be arriving today.  EMC start tomorrow with a day of Super Sessions which have been the talk of the conference today….see our super session flyer below.

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EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon announces insightful super session “eDiscovery War Stories: The Dirty Truth from the eDiscovery Trenches” with noted guest Steven W. Teppler, Esq., EdelsonMcGuire, LLC and Author of “Digital Evidence LifeCycle Management – A Guide for Enterprise, Attorneys, and Technologists”, Matthew Nelson, Esq., Legal Consultant in EMC’s Global eDiscovery and Compliance practice Jeff Seymour, Deloitte eDiscovery, and moderated by James D. Shook, Esq., CIPP, recognized authority and author on legal discovery and compliance law and EMC eDiscovery expert.


“The eDiscovery War Stories panel will discuss 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,” says Steven W. Teppler, Esq.

“The session “eDiscovery War Stories” highlights the challenges, issues and best practices the esteemed panelists have experienced throughout their careers in eDiscovery,” says J. David Morris EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon. “Gaining valuable firsthand knowledge and guidance from the eDiscovery trenches is an opportunity not to be missed while at LegalTech New York.”

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Registrations are pouring in for the Judges session.  RSVP now to reserve your seat!


EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon announces groundbreaking super session “The Ten eDiscovery Commandments: The Judges Speak” with noted guest speakers The Honorable Andrew J. Peck and The Honorable Frank Maas at LegalTech New York on Feb 2nd, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. in room SS1 on Concourse C.  CLE credit is available for this session; however, session attendance is limited.  Send an email to reserve your seat, email or register online at http://www.kazeon.com/newsroom2/legaltech.php.

“During our first conversation, both Judges took the session topic absolutely seriously and I knew we had hit a nerve.  What litigator would miss an opportunity to learn what judge’s see as the do’s and don’ts of eDiscovery? That is certainly a competitive advantage I would want,” said Matthew Nelson, Esq., EMC eDiscovery expert. “This session will be one of a kind.”

As a sneak peak, Judge Peck will be asked to builded on his prior opinion which was well articulated in the article, “Judge Issues a “Wake-Up Call” to New York Lawyers: When It Comes to Search Terms, Play Nice and Plan Ahead” written Jennifer H. Rearden and Farrah Pepper of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

“Farrah Pepper and Jennifer Rearden’s aforementioned article is a great launch point for this discussion. Judge Maas and Judge Peck perspectives on eDiscovery legal developments over the last year are likely to set the tone for all future litigation,” J. David Morris, EMC eDiscovery.

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About the Book:

Discover the process of e-discovery and put good practices in place.

Electronic information involved in a lawsuit requires a completely different process for management and archiving than paper information. With the recent change to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure making all lawsuits subject to e-discovery as soon as they are filed, it is more important than ever to make sure that good e-discovery practices are in place.

e-Discovery For Dummies is an ideal beginner resource for anyone looking to understand the rules and implications of e-discovery policy and procedures. This helpful guide introduces you to all the most important information for incorporating legal, technical, and judicial issues when dealing with the e-discovery process. You’ll learn the various risks and best practices for a company that is facing litigation and you’ll see how to develop an e-discovery strategy if a company does not already have one in place.

• E-discovery is the process by which electronically stored information sought, located, secured, preserved, searched, filtered, authenticated, and produced with the intent of using it as evidence
• Addresses the rules and process of e-discovery and the implications of not having good e-discovery practices in place
• Explains how to develop an e-discovery strategy if a company does not have one in place

e-Discovery For Dummies will help you discover the process and best practices of managing electronic information for lawsuits.

Learn about e-discovery rules, protections, and vulnerabilities

Here are the issues, challenges, strengths, and limitations of e-discovery in an easy-to-understand guide. Find out how to identify, protect, and produce electronically stored information, prepare for litigation, avoid tainting evidence, and much more. It’s a much better (and cheaper) way to learn about this hot legal issue than through experience!

• What happened — explore the legal changes that made e-discovery an issue and what they mean to you
• Your ESI IQ — get a comprehensive look at your electronically stored information (ESI) and how to manage it effectively
• Set up a team — assemble a team of employees from your IT and Legal departments and establish how to work together on important e-discovery projects
• Make a plan — identify potentially relevant ESI and how to comply with litigation holds
• Put the plan into action — preserve ESI, redact privileged info, and produce ESI in its native format, including metadata
• If you’re challenged — find out how to evaluate admissibility and document your evidence
• Be prepared — build an electronic records management program and policy and monitor compliance
• Call for backup — know when to bring in outside vendors and computer forensics specialists

Open the book and find:

• Why you can’t ignore e-discovery
• How to prepare for litigation
• Ten essential e-discovery rules
• How to create a data map
• What data to keep
• How to set up a document repository
• Suggestions for controlling your e-discovery costs
• How to review, process, and filter information

About the Authors:

Linda Volonino (PhD, MBA, CISSP, ACFE) entered the field of computer forensics and electronic evidence in 1998 with a PhD and MBA in information systems (IS). She’s been a guest lecturer on computer forensics and eDiscovery at the State University of New York Buffalo School of Law, and to attorneys and state Supreme Court justices as part of Continuing Legal Education (CLE). She’s a computer forensics investigator and e-discovery consultant with Robson Forensic, Inc. working for plaintiff and defense lawyers in civil and criminal cases. In addition to standard e-mail and e-document evidence, she’s consulted on cases involving electronically stored information (ESI) from social media sites and handheld devices as part of eDiscovery.

Linda’s coauthored Computer Forensics For Dummies and four textbooks: to on information technology, on on information security, and one on computer forensics. She’s published in academic, industry, and law journals on e-discovery and the need for electronic records management as part of pre-litigation readiness. She’s a senior editor on Information Systems Management and was Program Chair for the 2009 Conference on Digital Forensics, Security, and Law.

Ian J. Redpath holds a Bachelor’s degree from Hillsdale College, a JD from the University of Detroit, and an LLM from the University of Wisconsin. He has 34 years of experience in litigation and has been admitted to practice in the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and New York as well as the Federal and Tax Courts. Ian is also a former prosecuting attorney. He has published numerous articles on contemporary issues and topics and coauthored several books.

Ian has taught American Jurisprudence at the University of Clermont-Ferrand School of Law in France and lectures regularly on American Law at prestigious MGIMO in Russia. He has extensive national and international experience in developing, writing, and presenting continuing education programs.

Currently, Ian is the principle in the Redpath Law Offices with offices in Buffalo and New York City where he specializes in criminal and civil litigation.

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