eDiscovery Ethics: Avoid Sanctions and Other Pitfalls

Overview

This seminar illuminates the complexities of managing electronic data and the ethical considerations that arise during eDiscovery. Panelists review what eDiscovery and electronically stored information (ESI) are and why they are critical to litigation, introduce potential eDiscovery issues and the key legal ethics rules they challenge, dive into recent eDiscovery ethics cases with real-world examples, and highlight best practices to sidestep ethical pitfalls and keep a practice compliant and resilient.

What you’ll learn

• ✓Explain eDiscovery and ESI and why they are critical to litigation
• ✓Identify potential eDiscovery issues and the ethics rules they challenge
• ✓Analyze recent eDiscovery ethics cases and their lessons
• ✓Apply best practices to avoid sanctions and other ethical pitfalls

Curriculum

1. 1. eDiscovery Ethics: Avoid Sanctions and Other Pitfalls

   What You Will Learn from the Seminar In this seminar, our expert panelists begin by reviewing what eDiscovery and electronically stored information (ESI) are, as well as why they are critical to litigations. Next, our speakers introduce some of the potential eDiscovery issues attorneys can face, the ethical considerations they raise, and the key legal ethics rules they challenge. Our panelists then dive into recent eDiscovery ethics cases, providing you with real-world examples of challenges and solutions. Finally, our experts highlight best practices to sidestep the ethical pitfalls of eDiscovery, ensuring your practice remains compliant and resilient.

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Your instructors

Daniel B. Garrie

Founder, Law & Forensics; Neutral at JAMS; Faculty at Harvard

Law & Forensics LLC · JAMS · Harvard · Rutgers Law School · Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare

Daniel B. Garrie is the founder and executive managing partner of Law & Forensics LLC, a boutique cybersecurity and forensic engineering firm he co-founded in 2008. He serves as a neutral, arbitrator, and forensic special master at JAMS, focusing on cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and complex technology disputes, and holds faculty appointments at Harvard and Rutgers Law School. A patented software inventor and prolific author, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare and a widely cited authority on computer forensics, eDiscovery, and cyber litigation.

Judge Reva Goetz

Ret.), Mediator, Arbitrator & Discovery Referee, JAMS

JAMS

Judge Reva Goetz (Ret.) is a full-time neutral with JAMS, serving as a mediator, arbitrator, and discovery referee. Since beginning her alternative dispute resolution practice in 2015, she has mediated and arbitrated hundreds of estate, probate, trust, and family law matters, including high-value trust, conservatorship, and family disputes for high-profile individuals. Prior to her judicial career she served as a Deputy District Attorney, including in the Major Fraud Unit, drawing on earlier experience as an accountant, auditor, and financial analyst.

Katherine Charonko