How to Save Your Client E-Discovery Costs by Mediating

Overview of How to Save Your Client E-Discovery Costs by Mediating

Mediation can cut eDiscovery costs substantially, and this course shows how. Panelists provide an overview of eDiscovery and mediation, including the mediator's role and the advantages and disadvantages to consider. They discuss how attorneys should prepare for an eDiscovery mediation and conclude by highlighting the key factors for deciding whether to resolve eDiscovery disputes through mediation.

What you’ll learn in How to Save Your Client E-Discovery Costs by Mediating

• Understand the role of mediation in resolving eDiscovery disputes
• Weigh the advantages and disadvantages of eDiscovery mediation
• Prepare effectively for an eDiscovery mediation
• Decide when to resolve eDiscovery disputes through mediation

Curriculum

1. 1. How to Save Your Client E-Discovery Costs by Mediating 

   In this course, our expert panelists begin by providing an overview of eDiscovery and mediation, including the role of mediation in resolving eDiscovery disputes, the role of the mediator, and the advantages and disadvantages of the process to consider. Next, our speakers discuss how attorneys should prepare for an eDiscovery mediation. Our experts conclude by highlighting the key factors to consider when deciding whether to resolve eDiscovery disputes or cases through mediation. Topics covered in this webinar: Overview of Electronic Discovery Mediation How to Prepare for an E-Discovery Mediation How to Conduct an E-Discovery Mediation

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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.

Dan Nichols

Attorney, JurisLaw LLP

JurisLaw LLP

Daniel J. Nichols is a litigator and trial lawyer at JurisLaw LLP, where he leads the firm's eDiscovery practice. He serves as discovery counsel in class actions brought by consumers, including customers of large corporations and victims of Ponzi schemes, alongside a mold injury and class action litigation practice, and is a former partner of the eDiscovery firm Redgrave LLP. He has taught civil discovery at Lewis & Clark Law School for nine years, previously chaired Oregon's Uniform Civil Jury Instruction committee, and serves on the Oregon Advisory Committee on Civil Justice. He earned his J.D. magna cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on artificial intelligence in eDiscovery and on mediating to reduce e-discovery costs.

Hon. Peggy A. Leen

Mediator, Arbitrator, Special Master, JAMS (Ret.)

JAMS

Hon. Peggy A. Leen (Ret.) is a mediator, arbitrator, referee/special master, neutral evaluator, and hearing officer with JAMS. She previously served more than 18 years as a United States Magistrate Judge in the District of Nevada, where she conducted more than 900 settlement conferences and early neutral evaluations and, before the bench, litigated complex multi-party civil and criminal cases as a trial lawyer for over 20 years. She is known as an effective, thoroughly prepared settlement judge who is evaluative, candid, and focused on realistic resolutions, and she speaks on using mediation to reduce e-discovery costs.

David Cohen

Partner, Reed Smith LLP

Reed Smith LLP

David Cohen is a Partner at Reed Smith LLP, where he chairs the firm's Records & E-Discovery Group, and he has more than 30 years of commercial litigation experience. He serves as special e-discovery counsel in complex matters and has been appointed an E-Discovery Special Master by three different federal judges in the Western District of Pennsylvania, in addition to helping establish that district's EDSM program. He designs and presents e-discovery training for judges and neutrals nationwide and speaks on e-discovery, technology, and litigation tactics.