Happy New Year! Here is to you and yours in 2014J
June 2014 is ILTA’s spotlight month for litigation and practice support. What does this mean? In addition to the normal lineup of educational opportunities ILTA provides each month, the Litigation and Practice support Steering Committee is gearing up to provide a supersized dose of litigaiton and practice support information and programming.
Stephen Dooley and Cindy MacBean are working on putting together a Whitepaper. The latest draft of topics are listed below. What are we missing? Are there other topics you would like to see addressed in the white paper?
- Trends in Litigation support – what are today’s best practices for litigation support strategy.
- Perspectives - Small and Large firm + Corporate?
- IG meets discovery
- Security (encrypt-everything is that practical?) – There is a balance to be made.
- More with less – smarter but not harder.
- TAR – review third party productions or QC
- Where does IG and lit support meet and how do they complement each other?
- Documenting workflow & revising workflow to meet changing needs. – Continuous improvement.
- How to do lit support without a lit support department.
- What does every IT person / Paralegal needs to know about the other world.
- Corporate IT teams handling discovery tasks – discovery projects have different needs for data handling from traditional business needs.
- How to maximize the value you provide?
- Less technical more consulting - what skills do you need and why. (the business case for skill building)
- Project Management and Budgeting – monitoring and reporting information to provide value and identify risk
- Certification – professional development – does application-specific certification have more value?
- How are we setting the expectation of your value to the end-client? PR – selling your services.
- Ethical
- Do you have to disclose everything regarding your discovery process (including TAR strategy)? (Ralph Losey or Maura Grossman).
- Also documenting the discovery strategy – how Lit Support can add value by being the record keeper of the process and the overall assessment of the systems from a logistical / technical perspective? Continuous improvement and revising processes.
- Be mindful of tools that disclose they have support for discovery processes, and yet haven’t been tested.
- How do you support other venues / jurisdictions that don’t have electronic discovery rules (such as State Court)?
- Security v. Accessibility – The balance
- Client security expectations
- Legal responsibilities
- Lit Support challenges - Technical skills / knowledge v. Policies & Procedures. How to handle it all when you are the resource.
- Trial – preparation, planning, and practice, practice, practice…
Finally, I will be attending Legal Tech New York next week and look forward to catching up with old friends and meeting new fellow ILTA-ns. If you are attending LTNY and would like to meet up with any of the steering committee members email me and I will try to set something up.
All for now and have a great day!
Julie