To register for the event, please visit The American Society of Digital Forensics & eDiscovery website here.

The topic will be:

“Developing Standard Operating Procedures for Managing eDiscovery & Digital Forensics”

Erika will also moderate the Association of Litigation Support Professionals – Atlanta Chapter meeting on June 16th. The expert panel discussion topic will be

“Cost Containment Strategies & Best Practices in E-Discovery”

To register for this event, please visit the ALSP website here.

Training Class:

• Before the Class
  • Review the course outline with your team and write down any major questions you would like to have answered by the instructor
  • Network with the other students in the class during breaks to learn more about how other organizations manage their cases and which tools they use and why
• After the Class
  • Review your training materials and the questions you had the instructor answer to create at least one 10- minute presentation for your team per day of class (so if the class was 3 days, that’s 3 presentations)
  • Be sure you stay in touch with your classmates and instructor as they will prove an excellent resource when questions arise in your work and you need answers from a trusted source
  • If you are attending one of our LitWorks classes, you’ll get a “Resource CD” full of great information you can copy to a shared drive and index like you would e-discovery so that it’s search-able.

Trade Show or Conference:

• Before the Conference
  • Identify the workshops and seminars that would be most beneficial to your team and plan your schedule around them
  • Identify the service providers and software vendors whose technology or service you are already using so that you can stop by and introduce yourself/ say “hello”
  • Identify the service providers and software vendors who have a product or service you would like to learn more about and schedule an appointment to meet with them when you’re not at a workshop or seminar
  • Prepare a list of questions for all of your vendor meetings that you would like to get answered
  • Take good notes during the workshops & seminars that you attend
  • Talk to / Network with other attendees after each seminar to get additional feedback on the topic
  • Introduce yourself to the speaker(s) and ask if it would be okay to send them an email with any follow up questions on today’s topic
  • Set up a Google Alert for the conference so that you will find any and all blog posts & press releases about the conference
• After the Conference
  • Download the conference materials, slide show and handout PDFs from the official conference site
  • Review the official conference blog & tweets to augment your notes
  • Review the sites & blogs collected / sent to you by Google about the conference
  • Summarize the topics that were important to your team and prepare at least 3  10-minute presentations w/n 45 days of the event
    • What new trends are out there?/ What’s the industry buzz?
    • What new features are available for the tools your organization uses? / What new tools/ technology is available?
    • Specific to your key research topics, summarize what you learned in the seminars & workshops

In today’s economy, everyone on your team may not be able to attend every conference or training session but hopefully, these tips will help you to maximize your investment and encourage the sharing of information.

Here’s a more detailed overview of our LitWorks Certified Litigation Support Professional training class… let us know if you have questions. The next class is scheduled for April 20 – 23, 2010. Register here.

Attendees will learn:

• Litigation Management Concepts
• Discovery Project Management Methodology
• How to Assist Case Teams with Responding to Electronic Discovery Requests

Workshops Include:

• The Corporate Perspective – Litigation Readiness Planning & Execution: Every corporations’ business model is different so asking questions about how your firm’s clients manage ESI is increasingly important. We will discuss what information LSPs should know in order to make the best recommendations for how data will be managed in litigation later in the discovery process
• Cool Tools & Technology Overview: Our training program is vendor & technology agnostic, however we will discuss and provide attendees with information regarding the role technology plays in litigation, the types of litigation technology available and discuss what is bleeding edge vs. tried & true technology.
• Introduction To Electronic Discovery Best Practices & Concepts: Our advanced attendees will appreciate the “train the trainer” delivery of this topic while our less experienced attendees will gain a strong foundation of what makes e-discovery so special… in the end, it’s all just discovery.
• Managing & Responding To Discovery Requests: LSPs often participate on case teams in a consultative role, this workshop teaches how to address technology questions at every stage of the discovery workflow
• Litigation (EDD) Case & Project Management: Attendees will learn how to apply project management methodologies and traditional litigation support case management techniques
• Managing Internal & External Resources: Attendees will learn how to assess their internal organization resources and identify, manage and build relationships with both internal & external resources.
• Defining The Role & Responsibilities Of Litigation Support Professionals: This discussion addresses the varied structures of litigation support departments and the role LSPs play in law firms, government agencies and corporate legal departments
• Overview of Traditional Litigation Support Techniques & Strategies: Paper still exists in discovery and it would be almost negligent not to train today’s litigation support professionals on what to do with it in managing discovery. We address how many of the best practices developed over the last 25 years in paper discovery can still be applied to litigation projects today.
• Database Design Methodology: LitWorks is software agnostic and we believe that the tools are not as important as the process. In this workshop, we define the process and goals of the database to learn how to make the best technology application decisions for our case teams
• Strategies For Managing Transcripts: Attendees will learn about the various ways transcripts are used in litigation and trial, how to manage them and make them available to case teams for searching and reporting
• The Lifecycle Of A Matter: Many of our attendees come from an IT background so we make sure we start class on the first day with an overview of what happens in litigation, the objectives of the case teams and how technology can be applied to every phase in the litigation lifecycle.
• Effective Billing, Cost Containment & Cost Recovery Best Practices: Discussed in greater detail in our manager & director level class, we provide an overview of goals, objectives and best practices that are working in the industry today

• Gabe’s Guide to the E-Discovery Universe
• The Posse List
• Pivotal Discovery
• EDD Update

All actively seek to inform litigation support professionals about technology trends and industry news in a pretty neutral manner. Where do you get your litigation support & e-discovery news?