E-Discovery: Will Software Replace Lawyers, Threaten Fairness?

WHERE:

Murrow Room

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NPC Newsmaker

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The year 2012 was a landmark year – for the first time, federal and state judges published opinions approving lawyers’ use of new forms of software and technology to find responsive documents in huge data repositories. Is the legal profession ready to embrace these new 21st century techniques based on mathematical algorithms? Will they eliminate the armies of young lawyers and contract attorneys now so necessary for large-scale document production? And do these new techniques raise fairness issues in litigation where only one party has access to highly sophisticated software?

Scheduled to appear:

Hon. John M. Facciola
U.S. Magistrate Judge, District of Columbia

Jason R. Baron
Director of Litigation, National Archives and Records Administration
Former Co-Chair, Sedona Conference Working Group 1
(Electronic Document Production and Retention)

Jeane A. Thomas
Partner, Crowell & Moring Antitrust Group
Chair, E-Discovery and Information Management Group

Paul Starrett
Chief Global Risk Officer & Counsel, UBIC