Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Houston, TX 
Best practices and technology for eDiscovery are rapidly advancing. What was state-of-the-art yesterday may no longer be a defensible process today. At the same time, both corporate and outside counsel are dealing with increasing volumes of data, rising litigation costs, and shrinking budgets. The challenge is to manage eDiscovery in a cost-effective and defensible process that will avoid sanctions and meet the ever-evolving standard of reasonableness.

During this informative seminar, you will learn different methods on how to build a defensible process to mitigate risk and help protect your organization or clients from fines, sanctions, and spoliation of crucial data.

• An understanding of the rapidly changing reasonableness standard
• The judiciary and technology
• Best practices for managing legal hold and early case assessment
• The evolving expectation around reasonable and defensible processes
• State-of-the-art, advanced technology for legal hold, preservation, collection, and early case assessment
• Effective methods for mitigating risks, reducing costs, and minimizing process challenges

Speakers: 
Jack Halprin, Esq., Vice President of eDiscovery and Compliance, Autonomy, serves as a subject matter expert and advises clients on building best practices and defensible processes around electronic discovery, legal hold, and compliance-related issues. He is actively involved in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) forum, leading the EDRM Metrics 3 working group.

Jessica C. Mederson, Lawyer, Vinson & Elkins, focuses her corporate litigation practice on securities litigation and director and officer liability litigation, as well as IP and other complex commercial litigation.  She has advised and assisted in the representation of financial and technology companies as well as a national airline and an international biotechnology company. A member of V&E's Electronic Discovery Task Force, Jessica has written and spoken on topics related to eDiscovery and document preservation, collection, and production.

*1 hour CLE credit applied for by Autonomy, approval pending, The State Bar of Texas. Autonomy is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, providing information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery, records management, and archiving solutions.