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MCLE CALENDAR
| Date | Session Title / Description |
| 5/22/2024 | The Goldilocks Effect in Data Governance: Managing ESI, Privacy, Cyber & AI Risk. Learn how to strike the right balance, win over hearts and minds with clients, and implement a defensible data governance program |
| 6/12/2024 | The New Age of The New Age of Discovery: Collecting from Emerging Data Sources in Thoughtful Ways. Learn how to collect email data that utilizes “modern attachments” (linked files), perform targeted mobile phone collections for specific text messages, gather relevant Slack messages with their attached files, and thread Teams chats for comprehensive investigations. |
| 7/10/2024 | Meeting of the Minds: Engaging and Entertaining Meet & Confer on Discovery Issues Between Opposing Counsel Moderated by Judge Allison Goddard. Learn about what to do (and not do!) in the discovery process and how to engage in reasonable dialogue with opposing counsel. |
| 9/11/2024 | AI eDiscovery |
| 10/17/2024 | Cyber Mock Trial: Attendees will determine whether a CISO is guilty or not after he testifies in his own criminal and civil trial following a catastrophic data breach. Learn about trending cyber issues, admissible evidence from a forensic investigation, threats and enforcement actions in an entertaining mock trial. |
| 11/13/2024 | Case Law Update |
| 12/11/2024 | Tom O’Connor |
USEFUL LINKS
A Pocket Guide for Judges 2d Ed.
Craig Ball’s Ball in your Court
Craig Ball’s Annotated ESI Protocol
Doug Austin’s E-Discovery Today
Basics of E-Discovery – Exterro 2d ed.
Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM)
Josh Gilliland’s Bow Tie Log
K&L Gates Electronic Discovery Law
Kelly Twiggers’ eDiscovery Assistant
Ralph Losey’s e-Discovery Team
The Sedona Conference
The Sedona Conference Glossary For E-Discovery – 5th ed.
The Sedona Conference Primer on Managing eDiscovery in Small Cases
Tom O’Connor’s Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center
ESI FORUM STEERING COMMITTEE
Judge Allison Goddard
Judge Anthony Battaglia
Judge Ronald Frazier
Judge Timothy Walsh
Lea Malani Bays, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
Tim Blood, Blood Hurst & O’Reardon LLP
Kasha Castillio, Federal Defenders
John Ellis, Federal Defenders
Sabrina L. Feve, Assistant U.S. Attorney
Charles Gulley, III, Witham Mahoney & Abbott
Ruth C. Hauswirth, Cooley LLP
Knut S. Johnson, Esq.
Bill Kammer, Solomon Ward
Hugh Kim, Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP
Dan Kinney, ProSearch Strategies, Inc.
William M. Low, Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP
Browning Marean (1942-2014)
Justine M. Phillips, Baker McKenzie
Laney Schatz, Solomon Ward
Lauren Doucette, Sheppard
Ryan Karkenny, Deputy District Attorney
Matt Krengel, Cooley LLP