The Sedona Conference® Institute Presents “Getting Ahead of the eDiscovery Curve," March 29-30 in Memphis, TN

SEDONA, AZ – The Sedona Conference® Institute, in association with the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) International, will present a two-day national conference to help business organizations reduce litigation costs while meeting higher expectations of federal courts, by helping facilitate communication within the organization, assemble interdisciplinary teams, and implement a winning litigation response strategy. The conference, entitled “Getting Ahead of the eDiscovery Curve,” will be held March 29 and 30 at the historic Peabody Memphis Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.

The newly amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure anticipate all litigants will be able to identify, preserve, review, and disclose relevant ESI quickly and at a cost proportionate to the needs of the case. To effectively accomplish the task, organizations will need to assemble new teams and processes which leverage diverse players and skill-sets (Legal, IT, Records Management) while understanding this diverse cast may bring their own challenges with respect to communication and cooperation, such as translating between tech-speak and legal-ese, or allocating tight resources between different departments.

The keynote address at the conference will be given by Hon. Shira Scheindlin, U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York and author of the Zubulake decisions, considered the leading series of judicial opinions on the discovery of electronically stored information in civil litigation. Joining her on the faculty will be leading litigators, in-house counsel, and RIM, IT & eDiscovery experts, most of whom are members of The Sedona Conference® Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production and contributors to its highly acclaimed publication, The Sedona Principles. Co-chairing the program will be Sherry B. Harris of Hunton and Williams, Richmond, VA; Monica Latin of Carrington Coleman Sloman & Blumenthal, Dallas, TX; Patrick L. Oot of Verizon Communications, Arlington, VA; and John J. Rosenthal of Howry, Washington, DC. The full faculty and their bios are posted on our website.

The Sedona Conference®, a nonprofit law and policy think-tank based in Sedona, AZ, established The Sedona Conference® Institute in 2006 to bring high-quality professional education to audiences in major cities across the country, based on materials and faculty drawn from the highly respected Sedona Conference® Working Group SeriesSM.

Registration is $1195/person; $1095/person if two or more from the same organization register at the same time. Registration is limited to the first 150 people on a first-come, first-serve basis. For the complete agenda, faculty bios, or to register, click on the program title on the home page of our website, www.thesedonaconference.org (under The Sedona Conference® Institute logo on the right side, in the middle of the home page) or call toll free 1-866-860-660.