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ACEDS Welcomes David Horrigan to Its Global Advisory Board

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May 30, 2019 – EAGAN, Minn. Leading global e-discovery education and certification provider the Association of Certified e-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), a BARBRI professional association, is pleased to announce the addition of David Horrigan to its Global Advisory Board. Horrigan joins a distinguished group of professionals in e-discovery and related fields who lend their expertise and time to provide strategic direction to the ACEDS organization.

“ACEDS is honored and grateful for the contributions that our board members make to our global community,” said ACEDS Executive Director, Mary Mack, CEDS, CISSP. “David has supported the growth of ACEDS overall and through our Detroit, Dublin, Jacksonville, Japan, London, and New England chapters, bringing his educational expertise to our global community, for which we are very appreciative.”

Horrigan is discovery counsel and legal education director at Relativity. An attorney, award-winning journalist, and former legal technology industry analyst, David has served as analyst and counsel at 451 Research, reporter and assistant editor at The National Law Journal, and counsel at the Entertainment Software Association. He brings more than two decades of knowledge and expertise in e-discovery, legal technologies, and areas such as data privacy to the ACEDS Global Advisory Board. As the volume of data rises and new information sources mount, Horrigan is tasked with educating and advising the Relativity Community in matters related to e-discovery and data law challenges, including litigation and corporate compliance.

“It’s an honor to be included among the law firm, service provider, and corporate leaders who comprise the ACEDS Global Advisory Board,” said Horrigan. “Mary Mack and Kaylee Walstad have made ACEDS a vehicle for serving the educational and career goals of e-discovery professionals around the globe. Members of the Relativity Community—and the entire e-Discovery Community—have benefitted from their efforts, and I look forward to continuing to contribute in this new role.”

About ACEDS
The Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists, part of leading legal education provider The BARBRI Group, is a global membership association committed to promoting and verifying e-discovery skills and competence for organizations and individuals through training, certification, and supported by ACEDS chapters around the world. The association’s goal is to help professionals and organizations reduce the costs and risks associated with e-discovery, and realize the advantages of performing it effectively. ACEDS awards the Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS) credential, which is held by practitioners at Am Law 200 firms, government agencies, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and United Nations and some of the largest multinational corporations in the world.

About Relativity
At Relativity, we make software to help users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Over 180,000 users in 40+ countries rely on our platform to manage large volumes of unstructured data and quickly identify critical issues during legal discovery, digital investigations, and compliance projects. RelativityOne, the fastest-growing product in our company’s history, offers all the functionality of Relativity in a secure and comprehensive SaaS product. Built on Microsoft Azure, RelativityOne is now available on five continents. Trace, built on Relativity and optimized for RelativityOne, brings e-discovery and monitoring activities together under one platform and alerts compliance officers to suspicious or fraudulent activity. In 2018, Relativity received the Financial Times Intelligent Business Award recognizing the top legal technology companies with the greatest impact on the practice and business of law. At home, Relativity has been named one of Chicago’s Top Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune for eight consecutive years. Please contact our team at sales@relativity.com or visit http://www.relativity.com for more information.


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Tokyo Summit: Groundbreaking Diversity in Asia Panel Includes Sitting Japanese Jurist; Kaylee Walstad, CEDS, Honored as Global Conference Ambassador

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April 25, 2019.  EAGAN, Minn.  More than 200 cross-functional, high-level panelists and participants gathered during The Tokyo Global Summit, a global legal and technical conference held at the Tokyo American Club in Tokyo, April 18, 2019.  Panelists traveled from Brazil, Spain, Finland, Australia, and the U.S. to share-up-to-the-minute technical, legislative, regulatory, litigation, compliance, and diversity and inclusion challenges during this educational and networking event hosted by the CJK Group and LLM Law Review.

ACEDS Executive Director, Mary Mack, CEDS, CISSP, moderated the groundbreaking panel, Diversity and Inclusion in Asia: Optimizing Teams for Success. The panel included:

  • The Honorable Shusaku Tatara, Judge in the Chiba District Court of Japan, shared his experience of returning to the bench as an openly gay judge
  • Natsue Ishida, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Vice President, Legal & Compliance of UD Trucks Corporation, spoke about initiatives to increase women in STEM and the experience of returnees, who come back to Japan after extended time abroad
  • Jean-Denis Marx, Partner at Baker & McKenzie, spoke about the differences in response to LGBTQ+, and gender and the structural impediments to increasing diversity
  • Christopher Clay, Director, Legal Division of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., spoke of the fierce global competition for talent and the existential threat facing Japanese companies that do not adopt a culture of inclusion

“This was a stellar group of panelists, each of whom fully grasps the importance of diversity and inclusion for continued growth and success in our industry,” Mack said. “It was a very impactful session as the personal became professional for the group.”

ACEDS Vice President, Client Engagement, Kaylee Walstad, CEDS, was honored as conference Global Ambassador for her work promoting the conference and its participants to colleagues and other stakeholders across the community.

“I was overwhelmed to receive the award,” Walstad said. “Promoting and increasing the awareness of the event was a privilege as I believe it is an incredibly important and timely forum for the legal and technology field.”

Other speakers at the networking and education event included Dr. Kenzo Fujisue, Japanese parliament; Jason Hsu, the Taiwanese Crypto Congressman; and a conversation-enhancing combination of General Counsels, CEOs, and professionals in forensics, privacy, eDiscovery, and more.  ACEDS affiliates OpenText + Catalyst, Thomson Reuters and Relativity were among the conference sponsors and speakers.

“The Tokyo Summit fulfills my vision of a world-class educational forum where experts meet, collaborate and engage on cutting-edge topics in critical issues related to cybersecurity, data privacy, informational governance and electronic discovery,” said Jonathan Rossi Hiroshi, Tokyo Summit Founder and CEO. “This is just the beginning of something very special. Stay tuned for some big announcements!”

Highlights of the event can be accessed via Twitter at @kayleewalstad.

About ACEDS
The Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), part of leading legal education provider The BARBRI Group, is a global membership association committed to promoting and verifying eDiscovery skills and competence for organizations and individuals through training, certification, and supported by ACEDS chapters around the world. The association’s goal is to help professionals and organizations reduce the costs and risks associated with eDiscovery, and realize the advantages of performing it effectively. ACEDS awards the Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS) credential, and the eDEx, the eDiscovery Executive Certificate, held by practitioners at AmLaw 200 firms, government agencies, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and United Nations and some of the largest global corporations in the world.

About CJK Global
CJK Global is a multi-platform enterprise providing professional services and business-to-business content. Our professional services group deploys expert bilingual teams during the discovery stage of litigation, investigation and transaction based due diligence. The content unit offers exclusively tailored educational summits, in-person interviews & journals.

www.CJKGlobal.com

About LLM Law Review
LLM Law Review is the media and content division of CJK Global. We publish regulatory reports and commentary on technology developments as they relate to big data challenges, cybersecurity, data privacy and other issues that arise in the age of new technologies.


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Check Your Presumptions at the Door: Exploring Legal Technology in Brazil

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In late September 2018, I went on an amazing adventure to explore the status of legal technology in Latin America. At the generous invitation of the Brazilian government, I traveled 24+ hours (each way) to spend less than 72 hours in the Federal District of Brasilia to attend and present at the 2nd International Congress on Law, Technology and the Government. I don’t recall the last time I learned so much in such a short period of time (or flew so far to do it).

The initial invitation was simply to speak on eDiscovery at an international conference in Brazil. Having too many clean pages in my current passport, and none from South America, I eagerly confirmed. Without much to go on, I offered up the topic of exploring the growth of eDiscovery in the US and the lessons learned over the past 15 years. My suggested topic was received enthusiastically, and off I headed south of the equator.

Nearly every time I leave the United States, I am reminded that we live in a big world with significant cultural and societal diversity, and sometimes it is best to simply check my presumptions at the door.

The primary presumption to fall on this trip: the Brazilian bench and bar are interested in US-style eDiscovery.

As I quickly learned, in Brazil there is no right of discovery in the civil courts, and there is no interest in changing the status quo. As such, in my discussions with several Brazilian attorneys, I confirmed that issues easily predicted with an absence of discovery are rampant, including the dearth of inculpatory documentary evidence. Yet, the same attorneys pointed out that they happily avoid the expense of eDiscovery and their ability to focus their cases on the legal claims and defenses.

So why invite an eDiscovery expert to talk about eDiscovery? This leads to the second presumption: eDiscovery is primary driver of innovation in legal technology around the world.

In the US, we have gotten so used to associating eDiscovery with any discussion related to law and technology, it is easy to assume that the same holds across the globe. But, as I learned, in Brazil, they have a major issue in their legal system requiring the use of legal technology that we cannot even imagine: in the civil courts there is an automatic right of appeal, resulting in over 40,000 appeals last year to the Brazilian highest court: the Supremo Tribunal Federal (“STF”), which is the equivalent of the US Supreme Court.

As I quickly learned from my hosts, the Brazilian judiciary working on several legal technology projects to resolve this crushing appellate caseload, while providing constitutional guarantees of the right of access to the courts. The most interesting project, being run in cooperation with the University of Brasilia and Legal Labs, a spin-off enterprise which sponsored and ran the event, is focused on harnessing machine learning to analyze case filings and create classifiers that will organize cases by fact patterns and applicable caselaw. This project was the topic of several presentations during the conference. But the most interesting discussions occurred off the stage at a series of impromptu informal meetings between the group of foreign speakers who came in for the event (I was one of eight), a handful of Brazilian attorneys, and leaders of the Brazilian judiciary, including Minister Dias Toffoli, President (Chief Justice) of the Supremo Tribunal Federal.

As described by Minister Toffoli and several of his colleagues at the STF, there are a large number of law clerks working diligently to review and summarize cases, but there are simply not enough hours for the full court to consider every case. Preliminary testing has demonstrated initial success at harnessing artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning, to analyze the appellate filings and reduce hundreds of hours of human labor to minutes.

Even as the Brazilian judiciary and its outside partners strive to perfect their algorithm and processes to cut through the paperwork, questions loom. At the most basic level, we discussed issues such as ensuring data integrity and normalizing appellate filings to better facilitate ingestion and AI analysis. But much larger questions were raised in our discussions, including: is it acceptable for the STF and the lower appellate courts to use AI to decide (at least some) cases without any human intervention? Can AI be used to generate a predictive determination for cases to be reviewed by a judge? Can the federal courts use an AI to write a preliminary legal opinion? Each of these brings follow-on constitutional, ethical, and practical questions that must be examined and resolved.

It is easy to think that the US is leading the global pack in developing new technology to solve problems in the delivery of legal services and justice. But this trip reminded me of how that presumption must be challenged. For example, we often hear that courts, particularly state trial-level branches, are suffering from massive, overflowing dockets. Maybe it is time for us to start looking at developing legal technology solutions to these problems, as they are doing in Brazil. We should never stop looking beyond our horizons.

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International #eDiscoveryRockstar CEDS Spotlight: The Netherlands – Dennis Van Der Meer – Manager, Deloitte Netherlands

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Please Share Your Thoughts on the Certification Training, How Long It Took You to Prepare for the Exam, Thoughts on the Exam and How It Has Benefited You- Both the Knowledge Gained from Training and Certification and Being Part of the ACEDS Community as a Whole. (Whole Experience)

The preparation for the exam took me about 4 months. The ACEDS eDiscovery Essentials was a great first step in the preparation and the On-demand Prep Seminar was very useful. The CEDS Certification Exam Preparation Manual (fourth edition) is sufficient as an additional reference, but is limited as a true eDiscovery resource. For my preparation I purchased two books on eDiscovery.

In our jurisdiction (Netherlands/Europe) there are no explicit legal rules on eDiscovery and we are not used to working with the American rules (like the FRCP), so I have had to put in extra time to understand these rules. My recommendation to ACEDS is to try and create an International version of the course material like the ACFE have done in the past. Although is still very much based on the American jurisdiction, it makes the study material and certification a bit more accessible to non-American. The ACEDS have indicated to take my recommendation in to consideration.

The exam was very hard, because of the large amount of questions and the fact that some questions were quite extensive.

Being a member of the ACEDS offers me the chance to interact with other members and to access different kind of interesting webinars. I would also recommend to all new ACEDS members to join one of the many local chapters.

Why Did You Decide to Get Certified? Do You Have Any Other Certifications?

Many eDiscovery professionals are only certified by a specific vendor on the software they use, but I was looking for a more generic certification which covers the whole process of eDiscovery. This certification is a great addition to my Forensic certification with the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).

Please Share Your Background of eDiscovery Experience:

I have worked in the major insolvency cases in the Netherlands of the last 8 years. I was the main contact for the liquidators if they had questions regarding specific information out of these cases. Thanks to the international network of Grant Thornton, I have been involved in a few American eDiscovery cases and we had to deal with the specific FRCP rules.

Beside those cases I have also been working in dozens of fraud, bribery and anti-corruption cases. These forensic jobs were also very interesting. Thanks to our partnership with AccessData were we always very capable in handling all those different cases.

As of October 1st, I have started at Deloitte Netherlands as a manager eDiscovery. Deloitte is one of the major players in the world of eDiscovery so I am very proud to further develop my eDiscovery experience and skills.

Would You Recommend Our CEDS Training/Certification to Other?

Yes, I would recommend the CEDS training/certification to others. The ACEDS organization is a very involved and committed to the eDiscovery community.

Advice to Others Looking to Take the Exam?

Take your time for your preparation and try to read as much on eDiscovery as possible and take some extra time to understand the essence of the significant eDiscovery court cases.

It’s difficult to prepare for an exam of 4 hours, but at the exam you must try to keep track of your progress and skip questions if you’re not completely sure on the answer so you can tag it for later review at the end of your exam if you still have some time left.

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International #eDiscoveryRockstar CEDS Spotlight – Canada: Kathy Dallaire, Paralegal – Coordinator Litigation Technology Support at Lavery, De Billy, LLC

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Please Share Your Thoughts on the Certification Training, How Long It Took You to Prepare for the Exam, Thoughts on the Exam and How It Has Benefitted You- Both the Knowledge Gained from Training and Certification and Being Part of the ACEDS Community as a Whole. (Whole Experience)

I first became aware of ACEDS a number of years ago while preparing a business case for implementing litigation support services within our firm to centralize ediscovery services and support in-house as well as to standardize procedures and policies.

Since I still had a full schedule of paralegal work with trials and hearings, it took more time than anticipated to actually get to setting up our litigation support capabilities and eventually to the CEDS training and certification.

In light of my caseload, it made sense for me to split the training in two parts.  I took and successfully completed ACEDS’ ediscovery Essentials training in early 2017.  I found it to be just the right measure to encourage and push me to want to actually get certified.

My actual review of the materials for the exam began slowly in April of this year.  The materials are extremely well prepared and well written.  I registered for the live preparation seminars in June although I had not yet gotten through all of the materials.  The live sessions were given by Helen Bergman Moure and I was able to participate in all three.  To say the sessions were good and of value would be an understatement.  Helen was able to tie all of the information together in a logical and meaningful manner, with examples and real-life experience.

Finally, I decided to use a week of vacation time to review what remained of the materials and study for the exam.  I scheduled the exam for the Friday of that week and I planned to be completely ready.  I definitely underestimated the time it would take for a meaningful review but I was determined to get through it and make it to the exam as scheduled.  It made for long days and long nights but I actually enjoyed it and was totally immersed in the materials.  The legal framework was completely new for me as we have a different legal system, but the information was clear and concise.

As further preparation for the exam and following Helen’s advice during the preparation sessions, I printed and read through the relevant sections of the FRCP, including the Committee Notes on the Rules – this was essential advice.  I also took the practice exam as well as the “Test Your ediscovery IQ” questions on the ACEDS website which I found extremely useful in terms of the type of questions.  I read through other CEDS’ experience with the exam, including Mary Mack’s and I watched the prerecorded videos of the preparations sessions, again.

I was nervous, to say the least, but I got through the exam.  I agree with the advice given by others:  answer all questions, and time is of the essence.  The four hours passed quickly and when I reached the end, including time to review those questions I had marked for further review, I had only 10 minutes to spare.

Why Did You Decide to Get Certified? Do You Have Any Other Certifications?

Having provided support and services internally in an unofficial capacity for many years and then officially as Litigation Support Coordinator, it became important to be certified in order to have credibility.   More and more, clients are requiring specific ediscovery capabilities and credentials from the attorneys and firms they engage with. It is a fast-pace environment and providing clients with the assurance that the work is performed in the most efficient and state-of-the-art manner is essential.

On the personal side, actually going through the learning portion and successfully completing the exam gave me a definite boost of confidence.

I am very fortunate that the firm I have worked for for decades fully supports my efforts for certification and recognizes my efforts to that end.  I am very grateful for this support.

The other certifications I have obtained are as an AD Summation Administrator, AD Summation Case Manager and AD Summation Reviewer (consolidating into the AD Summation Specialist certification).

Please Share Your Background of eDiscovery Experience:

Although our jurisdiction does not have the same discovery obligations and we are not required to produce all potentially relevant information to adversaries in the discovery phase of litigation to the same extent, ediscovery principles do still apply in other phases of litigation for us.  Having the ability to process data and efficiently reduce the volume, knowing where to look for the information in clients’ environment, searching for responsive information within a collection to use as evidence, preparing productions, redactions and other branding, among others, are also essential in our legal context as well as being able to provide quality assurance for all of these processes.

Would You Recommend Our CEDS Training/Certification to Other?

Absolutely!

Advice to Others Looking to Take the Exam?

Give yourself enough time to go through the materials.  Follow the study guide.   Read the relevant sections of the FRCP and the comments.

I would recommend doing the Essentials training at the same time as the other materials but if you don’t take copious notes.  I was certainly glad I had.

Any Other Thoughts to Share?

Gratefulness for the support and encouragement received along the way, from other CEDS, and all at ACEDS.  I am very proud to be finally have become apart of this community.

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International #eDiscoveryRockstar CEDS Spotlight – United Kingdom: Rachel McAdams, Manager, EMEA, Global eDiscovery and Data Advisory at Baker McKenzie

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Please Share Your Thoughts on the Certification Training, How Long It Took You to Prepare for the Exam, Thoughts on the Exam and How It Has Benefitted You- Both the Knowledge Gained from Training and Certification and Being Part of the ACEDS Community as a Whole. (Whole Experience)

When I was preparing for the CEDS exam, I spent some time upfront thinking about where the gaps in my knowledge were, and focused my efforts on those. I gave myself a few months to study for the exam, as I didn’t have a lot of time to set aside from my daily work. So my efforts were fairly evenly spread over those few months, as I tried to avoid last minute panic!

During my study time, I read through the CEDS manual and also went through the ACEDSeDiscovery Essentials course. I saved the practice exam questions until the last few weeks leading up to the exam, and found those very useful to prepare for the style of questions on the exam itself.

The startling thing about the CEDS exam is the breadth of material covered. The material covers everything from what settings to use during data processing and collection, to budgeting, to data protection and eDiscovery practices internationally. I was immediately able to use what I learnt from the exam process in my day to day work. One of the other really great aspects of the exam is that its software neutral, which means you can focus on the “why” rather than the “how”.

The most immediate benefit I’ve had from becoming part of the ACEDS community is access to the continuing development materials. The ACEDS webinar series covers a range of topics, and I always and try join the sessions if possible. I also love how ACEDS has active community groups locally, and I’ve attended ACEDS London events when I’m in town.

Why Did You Decide to Get Certified? Do You Have Any Other Certifications?

I am always looking for my next challenge, and when I found out about CEDS I decided to give it a go. I wanted to find a certification which would complement my other certifications in specific technologies and software.

I am also a Certified Relativity Expert and have various other certifications with in forensic collection and analysis.

Please Share Your Background of eDiscovery Experience:

I started working in eDiscovery just over 4 years ago. Prior to that, I had been completing a PhD in physics – which initially seemed to be totally unrelated to what I was doing, but I found that the skills I had developed during that time of analytical thinking, problem solving and even coding were directly transferable to eDiscovery.

My first role was with one of the Big 4, where I worked within the Forensic Technology Services team. I moved to my current role in Baker McKenzie in February 2018. My day-to-day work involves consulting with our lawyers globally on the best practices for eDiscovery, acting as a project manager for our active eDiscovery matters, and generally promoting the use of cutting-edge technology to solve eDiscovery problems.

Would You Recommend Our CEDS Training/Certification to Other?

Yes! It’s a great certification to fill in any knowledge gaps you might have, and validate your experience within the eDiscovery community.

Advice to Others Looking to Take the Exam?

Spend some time with the material provided by ACEDS, but be prepared to do some independent research on some of the topics which are covered to make sure you have a full understanding of the topics.

Any Other Thoughts to Share?

I’d just like to thank the ACEDS team for all their efforts!

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International #eDiscoveryRockstar CEDS Spotlight – Australia: Dispute Resolution & Litigation Analyst Ricky Cooke at Baker McKenzie

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Please Share Your Thoughts on the Certification Training, How Long It Took You to Prepare for the Exam, Thoughts on the Exam and How It Has Benefitted You- Both the Knowledge Gained from Training and Certification and Being Part of the ACEDS Community as a Whole. (Whole Experience)

Taking the exam was an enjoyable experience as it validated knowledge gained over many years working in the area of eDiscovery. It was satisfying knowing that what I have learned in Australia was also best practice internationally.

Why Did You Decide to Get Certified? Do You Have Any Other Certifications?

  • Industry advantage and edge that could be marketed towards clients
  • Confirmed and validated my expertise
  • Greater exposure as a eDiscovery leader in Australia
  • Working at Baker McKenzie, I wanted an internationally recognized qualification that is internationally transferable.

Please Share Your Background of eDiscovery Experience:

  • Over 14 years legal experience, including 9 years at Baker McKenzie.
  • Practiced law in NSW (Australia) since 2009
  • Provided technical expertise and legal advice to clients and other relevant parties in accordance to Australian Court
  • Practice Notes and document exchange protocols
  • Utilize the entire EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model) life cycle on daily basis

Would You Recommend Our CEDS Training/Certification to Other?

Most definitely, anyone in eDiscovery should want to be certified and want all others working in the area to be competency assessed based on leading industry knowledge and best practices.

Advice to Others Looking to Take the Exam?

Don’t worry about the United States principles, the practices are transferable to anyone, anywhere. The right answer is the right answer, no matter if you are based in the US or not.

Mary Mack, CEDS, CIAM, CISSP

London Bridges International Relativity Community

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Relativity Fest London, formerly known as the Spring Relativity Roadshow, gathered an international crowd in London on 1 May 2018.  The conference offered half-day workshops the day before a full-day focused on legal, cloud, security, and partner innovations.

Relativity’s CEO, Andrew Sieja opened with his keynote on the cloud and demonstrated through metrics the current adoption of RelativityOne.  Andrew highlighted partners Ricoh, CDS and FTI Consulting as well as their new UK client Allen & Overy.

Andrew also introduced Amanda Fennel, Relativity’s Chief Security Officer who shared their vision and implementation of a strong security plan. Unlike most security officers, Amanda tore through her presentation, offering metrics and the design practices she is shepherding to secure Relativity code, and the client data the code supports.

Relativity also announced project Insight, a proactive compliance-oriented workflow for Relativity that will flag documents based on a predefined template of keywords and put the automatically ingested communications into an oversight and monitoring workflow.

ACEDS was honored by an invitation to participate in the conference. Kaylee Walstad livestreamed three sessions and several interviews, and  Mary Mack contributed to the GDPR panel.

The new eDisclosure rules in the UK were parsed by Sir Colin Birss, Business and Property Courts Supervising Judge for the Midland, Wales,

and Western Circuity; Ed Crosse, Partner, Simmons & Simmons; Chris Dale, Founder, eDisclosure Information Project; Karyn Harty, Partner, McCann FitzGerald and Wendy King, Managing Director, FTI Consulting, moderated by David Horrigan, Discovery Counsel & Legal Education Director.

The Last Minute GDPR checklist was discussed by Chris Gallagher, Chief Solutions Officer Global Outsourcing, Special Counsel/D4; Jennifer Sharman Koh, Regional Director, LexSensis; Mary Mack, Executive Director, Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS) and Mark Thompson, Director and Privacy Practise Leader, KPMG, moderated by Constantine Pappas, Relativity Solutions Manager, Relativity.

David Horrigan moderated the final panel: a showdown between The Honorable James Francis IV, retired magistrate judge from the US Southern District of New York and Rachi Messing, the Senior Program Manager of Microsoft.  Judge Francis wrote the original opinion which Microsoft appealed through the process all the way to the Supreme Court, an appeal that was supported by most of the tech industry.

Since the US Supreme Court made the US v Microsoft case moot regarding the obligation of Microsoft to turn over data stored on Irish servers, the two instead offered their respective positions regarding the newly passed Cloud Act. The Act was added to the budget and became law without any hearings or normal Congressional process.

ACEDS UK Chapter officers and members James MacGregor, Robert Kenney, Nicola Milton, Emily J. Wyllie-Ballard and Mark Brannigan were all there as well as ACEDS community members from the UK, Benelux and US! The next UK chapter event will be held on May 16th at 5:30pm on Blockchain and feature a Who’s Who of the leading thinkers and practitioners.  The event will present a panel including:

Moderator:
Richard Tromans – Editor, The Artificial Lawyer

Speakers:
Dr Ben Gardner, Chief Scientific Officer – Wavelength Law
Gary Nuttall, Managing Director – Distlytics Ltd
Lee Bacon, Partner – Clyde & Co.
Alexander Carter-Silk, Partner – Brown Rudnick
Spencer Lynch, Managing Director – Stroz Friedberg

Order of Events:
Registration will start at 5:30pm
The Panel Discussion will end at 7:00pm
There will be a drinks reception until 9:00pm

The event will be held at Reed Smith – London Office; Broadgate Tower, 20 Primrose Street, London EC2A 2RS, United Kingdom.  Registration for the event is not open yet, but to register interest please sign up to our mailing list at www.aceds.org.uk. This event is open to all.

RelativityFest in Chicago will be held September 30th to October 3rd and you can register here: https://relativityfest.com/

 

Livestreams here:

Mary Mack’s GDPR panel: https://twitter.com/kayleewalstad/status/991293634120175616

Andrew Sieja’s Keynote: https://twitter.com/kayleewalstad/status/991235454317092865

Cloud Act Keynote with Judge Francis, Rachi Messing and David Horrigan: https://twitter.com/kayleewalstad/status/991339588198305792

Interviews with:

David Greetham, VP of eDiscovery Sales & Operations Ricoh: https://twitter.com/kayleewalstad/status/991263319662190592

Andrew Sieja, CEO Relativity: https://twitter.com/kayleewalstad/status/991331461499359232

Joy Murao, Founder Practice Aligned Resources and Nate Latessa, COO Heureka: https://twitter.com/kayleewalstad/status/990926108194476032

Anna Soroonian, Program Manager, Relativity: https://twitter.com/kayleewalstad/status/990921425983819776