H5 Recorded Webinar

Quality in E-Discovery:
Measuring and Achieving It

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
1-2 p.m. EDT / 10-11 p.m. PDT

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Description

In this webinar, legal and industry e-discovery experts provided practitioners with practical guidelines for ensuring high-quality, defensible search and review through the application of quality control and quality assurance techniques associated with preservation, review, and production. Topics included:

  • How a robust quality assurance process—including measurement and sampling techniques—can significantly lower the costs and risks of litigation
  • Recent case law highlighting emerging quality assurance standards in e-discovery, including Victor Stanley, Inc. v. Creative Pipe, Inc. and William A. Gross Construction v. American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance
  • How to determine the most appropriate and practical methods for measuring quality
  • How The Sedona Conference® principles and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) inform quality assurance practices
  • Best practices for designing and implementing a quality assurance process, including the incorporation of measurement protocols

Speakers:

  • Wendy Butler Curtis
    Special Counsel E-Discovery, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
  • Christopher Hogan
    Head of Advanced Research and Development, H5

Moderator:

  • Dan Savitt
    Practice Director, H5