Data Mapping and Litigation Preparation
Best Practices to Navigate Discovery and Track Electronically Stored Information
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This seminar will examine how to create and use data mapping, among other tools, to manage and reduce costs involved with electronically stored information in litigation and discovery preparation.
Outline
- Legal landscape
- Unique aspects of ESI
- Amended federal rules to address ESI
- Court’s expectations
- Sophisticated counsel, courts
- Consequences
- Critical to be prepared before the complaint arrives
- Electronic information management (EIM) for daily efficiency and litigation-preparedness
- Technology’s impacts on liability risks
- Records retention and EIM regimes
- eDiscovery preparedness
- Benefits to be derived from data mapping
- Data mapping
- Elements of data mapping
- Creating a data map
- Maintaining/updating a data map
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- How can companies and counsel use data mapping to manage electronically stored information?
- What are the other methods available to counsel to manage and help clients manage their ESI?
- What are the best practices for implementing a data map that will comply with the federal rules?
Faculty

Michael E. Lackey, Jr.
Partner
Mayer Brown
He focuses on civil and criminal litigation and electronic discovery. He handles multi-district and class action... | Read More
He focuses on civil and criminal litigation and electronic discovery. He handles multi-district and class action litigation, government contract disputes, and appeals. He is nationally recognized for his knowledge of electronic discovery issues and is a member of the Board of Advisors to the Georgetown University Law School Advanced E-Discovery Institute.
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Robert D. Brownstone
Law and Technology Director; Chair, EIM Group
Fenwick & West
He advises clients on electronic discovery, information-security, electronic information management and on... | Read More
He advises clients on electronic discovery, information-security, electronic information management and on retention/destruction policies and protocols. A nationwide advisor, speaker and writer on many law and technology issues, he is frequently quoted in the press as an expert on electronic information.
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Shawn M. Christen
Managing Director
Huron Consulting Group
He works with counsel providing data analysis, document management, computer forensics, electronic discovery and expert... | Read More
He works with counsel providing data analysis, document management, computer forensics, electronic discovery and expert witness services.
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