Increasingly lawyers are taking advantage of technology to practice in specialized boutique and smaller firm environments. But the rapidly growing size of collections of electronically stored information (ESI) presents an increasingly difficult challenge: How to effectively manage these resource-hungry cases without large firm support? What happens when the firm takes on a document-intensive case that its current review and production methods can’t handle? This educational webinar addresses how a boutique firm can effectively manage large cases, meet its deadlines, and avoid being outgunned by larger firms with greater staff and resources.

Agenda

• Growth of Boutique Law Firms
• Challenges for Boutique Firms Handling Large & Complex Cases
• Technology and Staffing to Support a Boutique Firm Practice
• eDiscovery/Document Management Software by Case Stage
• Document Review/Production Options in Large Cases
• Case Study

Proven techniques to obtain the evidence needed to successfully build your case

Plaintiffs face unique challenges when conducting discovery. A central difference is asynchronous data; plaintiffs must focus on accessing often complex document collections in the hands of defendants and third parties. More data to review and more complicated data types increasingly can overwhelm how attorneys traditionally have requested and reviewed productions and marshaled evidence.

Plaintiff lawyers, particularly if operating on a contingency basis, must carefully budget their time investment and client expenditures, while continually evaluating the case potential. Exploding electronically stored information (ESI) collection sizes and document types in modern litigation makes this a difficult balancing act. Litigators must thoughtfully plan their document requests, create reasonable agreements with opposing counsel and aggressively advocate for their eDiscovery rights. This webinar will address the primary issues and best practices on how to effectively address them.

Agenda

• Why is eDiscovery different for plaintiffs?
• Specific plaintiff concerns
• Planning for success with custodian identification, data mapping, early case assessment
• Marshaling your evidence with proper collection, processing & search
• Handling holes in productions, data dumps, hot docs, fast motion responses
• From ESI to evidence, facts and proof
• Top takeaways