Don’t Get Whacked By The Ever Changing World Of Legal Technology. Learn How New Trends Are Preventing You From Swimming With The Fishes.
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A document is “anything on which information of any kind is recorded”. That used to mean paper, then electronic documents – emails, Word files and the like – which were recognisable as documents. Now we have messages exchanged via WhatsApp, Snap, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and others. We create data which does not have any obvious text – photographs, videos, audio files – and send that to each other. Our devices may track our every move and some apps, and websites store that data. Beyond that we have data being created about us by others or by semi-autonomous machines; some of that sits in our homes and offices; some is captured by CCTV or telephone recordings.
Moderator–Brian K. McClure
Regional Director, QDiscovery
As Regional Director at QDiscovery, Brian is responsible for the company’s strategic business development in the Midwest. He has significant experience assisting law firms and corporations on a range of complex litigation matters, including those with cross-border discovery. Prior to joining QDiscovery, Brian has spent a decade in the industry, managing eDiscovery teams in Chicago and servicing clients throughout the US.
Speakers
COLLEEN M. KENNEY, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
COLLEEN M. KENNEY is a partner in Sidley’s Chicago office. She is the Chair of Sidley’s E-Discovery Task Force and a frequent speaker and panelist on e-discovery related topics. Colleen is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Management Accountant and a member of the Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Discovery. Prior to law school, she worked for four years as an auditor for a large public accounting firm.
Colleen has more than 20 years of experience representing clients in complex financial and class action litigation. Colleen has significant experience in litigating claims relating to financial fraud, including trying claims relating to a failed financial roll-up. Colleen has litigated class actions that range from claims under the Fair Labor Standard Act, gender discrimination, consumer fraud, and securities fraud. She also has extensive experience in assisting clients mediate, arbitrate and litigate complicated and multifaceted disputes in a variety of industries. She has also represented companies in highly intricate accounting-related internal investigations. These investigations have covered numerous industries and a wide range of financial topics.
Colleen has represented clients in every aspect of financial litigation, including shareholder derivative suits, change in control litigation, corporate internal investigations, Securities & Exchange Commission investigations and securities litigation. Colleen also counsels both public and private companies on the fiduciary duties of their officers and directors.
M. GRANT WATSON, E-Discovery and Litigation Support ManagerSmithAmundsen
When Grant became a lawyer, he was joining the family business. He can still recall going to the law library with his father on Saturdays, discussing policy and the grey areas of the law. He became fascinated with the law through those discussions and his interest only grew as he got older.
Today Grant partners with litigators on matters that require attention to electronically stored information. As an e-discovery professional with the firm, he assists with the identification and preservation of data, data policies, the collection, processing, review and production of discovery data, and data disposition. His goal is to help resolve disputes that involve discovery of electronic information.
Outside the office, Grant is an avid baseball fan whose loyalties lie with the Cleveland Indians.
Charles Krugel
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