May 2010

Thursday, May 27, 2010 to Thursday, May 27, 2010

Why you should attend this program: Some of the most significant changes in the history of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure relating to discovery and, especially e-discovery may be on the horizon follow the historic 2010 Conference held by the Civil Rules Advisory Committee being held at Duke Law School just two weeks before the National Institute; our first panel will reprise the potential changes in e-discovery rules and practices from the 2010 Conference and the dramatic impact they may have on federal litigation; Judge Scheidlin has shaken up the litigation world again with her decision in Pension Committee; expect a thoughtful, probing, interactive discussion of what will most certainly become the next most-cited e-discovery opinion following Zubulake; You may conduct great e-discovery but it won’t do you any good if you can't get e-documents into evidence. Learn how from Judge Grimm, the author of the leading opinion on the subject, and the advocates who will appear before him. "Marginal utility" is one of the most famous phrases in e-discovery and Judge Facciola, who coined it, will reflect on, among others, the role "proportionality" can play in controlling e-discovery costs; Everyone wants to bring down search costs and our panel, led by the Director of Litigation for the National Archives who has the greatest incentive of anyone to control e-discovery costs, will bring you up to the moment on the most important tools available to litigants to do so; ESI in a cloud computing environment has introduced new challenges for producting parties in e-discovery; learn how to deal with that ESI plus other thorny forms of ESI from experts who have had to confront these issues; For the fearless, enjoy an interactive tour through the ethics of Web 2.0 which will almost certainly make you change the way you use, or at least, think carefully on how to embrace, social networking sites, video-sharing sites, cloud computing, and internet advertising. You will receive thorough and thoughtful written materials to which you will refer often and regularly long after the National Institute.