Webinar approx. 60 min. (1 hr. CLE)
Building an eDiscovery Practice - The Business Planning Process
If you have found that outsourcing ESI processing and productions cramps your timeline or budget, it may be time to consider building in-house expertise.
The Digital WarRoom Attorney's Guide to eDiscovery Planning was created to give law firms a practical guide to expanding or creating an efficient, profitable eDiscovery practice.
In this webinar, eDiscovery experts, Tom O'Connor and Barry O'Melia, will discuss:
What considerations when evaluating in-house options?
The changing technologies in ESI management
How to approach the business decisions surrounding outsource v. insource?
Attorney obligations and ethical considerations
The value of a Process Diagram in project planning
Most importantly, Barry will provide a detailed ROI calculation that will help you assess the financial impact various alternatives for e-discovery processing and hosted review.
Meet Your Presenters:
Tom O’Connor, Senior Consultant Digital WarRoom
Tom O'Connor joined Digital WarRoom in 2012, and is focused on providing guidance to law firms and corporate clients in the management of e-discovery
projects. He is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the areas of e-discovery and computerized litigation support systems.
Prior to earning his JD, Tom worked in litigation support on document intensive cases for several years. Projects included the Keating case, the San Diego Civic Center construction litigation, California class actions against crematoriums, national breast implant
litigation, tobacco litigation on behalf of the Attorney
General of Texas and various phases of the Enron litigation.
Tom's involvement with large cases led him to become familiar with many software applications for litigation support and he has both designed databases and trained legal professionals in their use.
Barry O’Melia, Founder and CEO, Digital WarRoom
Barry heads up the product strategy and operations for Digital WarRoom. Barry wears many hats in this role – from strat egic planning to consulting,
product implementation and training for law firms and corporate users of Digital WarRoom. His 10+ years of hands-on experience on a wide variety of matters give Barry a long list of stories ‘from the trenches’ – he speaks from practical experience, and can
help you avoid the common problems faced by attorneys, litigation support and paralegals in the course of managing e-discovery. He has also been called on by several AMLaw 100 law firms and Fortune 100 companies to consult in the areas of electronic document
scope negotiation, review efficiency and 30(b)(6) witness support.
