For the third consecutive year, Ari Kaplan of Ari Kaplan Advisors surveyed corporate counsel of Fortune 1000 companies, asking their advice for implementing cost-effective and defensible e-discovery programs. This all-inclusive session will feature tips for companies just beginning to develop their e-discovery programs to those outlining their process for dealing with multinational litigation or investigations.

Attendees will learn about:

• Top advice from peers for creating
  effective e-discovery programs
• Strategies for measuring savings and predicting matter costs
• Perspectives on utilizing in-house e-discovery teams vs. outsourcing vendors
• Best practices for multinational discovery and additional resources

Moderator:
Joe Looby, Senior Managing Director, FTI Technology

Panel:
Vincent M. Catanzaro, Senior Counsel, Global Discovery Manager, DuPont Legal

Ari Kaplan, Principal, Ari Kaplan Advisors

Lynn S. Looby, Managing Counsel, Director of The Discovery Expertise Committee, The Dow Chemical Company

Renee Meisel, Legal Director, Dell Inc.

The ability to predict costs more accurately will be of increasing focus as corporations, law firms and government agencies aim to streamline e-discovery into a standard business process. The commonly used line-item approach has a number of benefits, yet new budgeting models are emerging that may give some corporate clients greater control and transparency. The success of either approach may depend on the company's litigation profile and types of matters faced, as well as the number of in-house resources, personnel and technology. Which model is best for you?

Session attendees will learn:

• The key attributes of two common e-discovery models that are explicitly focused on cost control
• How these attributes can increase or reduce
  e-discovery costs
• Important questions related to pricing, process and technology that better determine e-discovery program costs
• How to conduct a self-assessment test to help rate the current level of e-discovery budgeting transparency in your organization

Moderator:
Sophie Ross, Senior Managing Director, FTI Technology

Speakers:
David Horrigan, Analyst, eDiscovery and Information Governance, The 451 Group

Mike Knight, Partner, Jones Day

Lisa Markey, Vice President, Information Risk Management, Barclay's Capital

From predictive coding to analytics and ECA, e-discovery practitioners have a number of technology options available today to speed legal review. This interactive session will focus on the tools and processes that will shape legal review in the years to come, and include discussion on case law, productivity benchmarks and cost containment.

Session attendees will learn:

• How to determine which matters are best suited for predictive coding or predictive analytics and why the role of the human reviewer is growing (not lessening) when these workflows are utilized
• Why sophisticated software designed to decrease the burden of review depends on statistical sampling and quality-control processes
• What case law is most relevant to support the use of predictive workflows and how this should best inform case strategy
• What corporate counsel requested most of their outside counsel in 2011 to reduce costs and what they plan to request in 2012

Speakers:
The Honorable Ronald J. Hedges (ret.),
Adjunct Professor of Law; Former United States Magistrate Judge

Michelle Mahoney, Legal Logistics Director, Mallesons'

Katey Wood, Information Management Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)

Manfred Gabriel, Managing Director, FTI Technology

Peter J. Love, Partner, Jones Day