H5 is pleased to offer intensive continuing legal education (CLE) courses to law firms and corporate legal departments. Our complimentary courses cover a range of cutting-edge issues, including best practices, trends, and court opinions related to effective electronic discovery and document review for litigation, investigations, and enterprise-wide legal information management. We also offer customized courses for your organization's individual needs.
The courses will be presented in your law firm or law department office. Each course is one hour in length, and participants will be eligible for one CLE credit per course. CLE accreditation is pending.
To schedule a course, please contact:
Carrie Tacla
H5 Senior Marketing Manager
cle@h5.com
415 625 6772
Course Offerings
Keys to Effective and Defensible Document Review
How to Measure the Effectiveness of Search and Review in E-Discovery
Defensible Search and Review: Guidance from Recent Court Opinions
The Role of Linguistics, Statistics, and Computer Science in Effective Search and Review
H5 Faculty
Course Offerings
Keys to More Effective and Defensible Document Review
For lawyers, two of the greatest and most costly challenges in document review are well known: failing to retrieve what you either want or are obligated to find, and retrieving what you neither want nor need to find. The first carries significant risks associated with effective case assessment and strategy, not to mention compliance and defensibility. The second can result in excessive cost and time to review non-relevant documents, and the inadvertent production of documents that you are not required to produce.
This one-hour course will confront these challenges head on. With guidance from recent court opinions, it will show how the systematic application of information retrieval science, combined with various other areas of expertise, can substantially increase the accuracy of document review while reducing risks and costs.
Specific topics will include:
- Major risks and costs of typical search methods and software tools
- Key steps in an effective document review process
- The use of expertise—such as linguistics, statistics, computer science, and process design—that can reduce your overall costs while increasing accuracy
- Measurement of document review performance
- Guidance from recent court opinions, including Victor Stanley, Inc., v. Creative Pipe, Inc., 250 F.R.D. 251 (D.Md. 2008) and United States v. O’Keefe, 537 F. Supp. 2d 14 (D.D.C. 2008)
How to Measure the Effectiveness of Search and Review in E-Discovery
In any search and review task, lead litigators and their review teams should always be asking themselves these questions: How accurate are my relevance assessments? How much important information might I be missing? How do I know? This one-hour course will provide the answers to these questions, with an in-depth discussion of metrics and sampling methodologies used for measuring the effectiveness of search and review.
Participants can expect to learn best practices in conducting systematic analyses, the use of appropriate performance metrics, and the use of sampling to cost-effectively measure document review performance.
Specific topics will include:
- Introduction to measurement
- Performance metrics: key inputs and appropriate metrics
- Sampling to test review performance
- Sampling to estimate review performance
Defensible Search and Review: Guidance from Recent Court Opinions
This one-hour course will highlight recent court guidance on defensible search and review methods, focusing on the May 2008 opinion issued by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grimm in Victor Stanley, Inc., v. Creative Pipe, Inc., which builds on the opinion issued by U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola in United States v. O’Keefe.
These opinions provide useful guidance to litigants as to how discovery of electronically stored information (ESI) should be conducted to successfully withstand challenge. Approaches developed by the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)—the standards body for measuring the effectiveness of search and review—and The Sedona Conference will be explained in the context of Victor Stanley. Additional guidance on practical approaches to defensible search and review will be provided.
Specific topics will include:
- Criteria to use in selecting and implementing a reasonable, cost-effective, and reliable search and review methodology
- Efficient use of technologies and process to reduce your overall review costs while increasing accuracy
- Specific guidance from The Sedona Conference and TREC for litigants on making reasonableness and defensibility determinations with respect to ESI search methodologies
- Specialized expertise that may be required in the search and review process
The Role of Linguistics, Statistics, and Computer Science in Effective Search and Review
“Whether search terms or ‘keywords’ will yield the information sought is a complicated question involving the interplay, at least, of the sciences of computer technology, statistics and linguistics …”
—United States v. O’Keefe, 537 F. Supp. 2d 14 (D.D.C. 2008)
Judges are talking about the need for linguistics, statistics, and computer science in the e-discovery process. But how are these disciplines—not typically found together in law firms, corporate legal departments, and IT or discovery consultancies—critical to effective search and review?
This one-hour course will define in depth each discipline and others such as process design, in the context of effective search and review, and will provide real-world examples of the practical application of these disciplines to achieve more defensible, cost-effective, and accurate results.
Specific topics will include:
- Linguistics, statistics, and computer science in the context of e-discovery
- The importance of these competencies in addressing risks and costs in the review process, specifically in relation to:
- Capturing and transferring knowledge
- Maintaining consistency throughout a review
- Measuring review performance
- Increasing review accuracy
- Types of matters in which these specialized areas of expertise may be required
H5 Faculty
Our faculty members are thought leaders in the e-discovery industry. They have decades of experience in their respective areas of expertise, including law, information technology, e-discovery, linguistics, research, and statistics. A detailed list of faculty members’ speaking engagements and publications is available here.
Robert S. Bauer, Ph.D. – Chief Technology Officer
Bob Bauer has over 30 years of leadership in turning innovative technologies into strategic advantages. Dr. Bauer is the former vice president and founding CTO of Xerox Global Services. As a senior staff member at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), he led the Systems Science Laboratory and helped create the Advanced Systems Development Lab. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, and has been an advisor for the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, UNESCO, and the federal Departments of Commerce, Defense, and Homeland Security. Dr. Bauer earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Julia Brickell, Esq. – Executive Managing Director and General Counsel
Julia Brickell is executive managing director and general counsel of H5.
In addition to overseeing the legal affairs of the company, including
corporate governance and legal compliance issues, Ms. Brickell advises
on corporate strategy. Prior to joining H5, Ms. Brickell was associate
general counsel of Altria Client Services from 2000 to 2008. She focused
on product liability litigation, risk assessment, and electronic data
management. From 1998 to 2000, Ms. Brickell served as vice president
and deputy general counsel of Philip Morris USA. Prior to joining Philip
Morris, Ms. Brickell practiced at Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York,
where she handled antitrust, securities, professional malpractice, and
commercial litigation. Ms. Brickell is a frequent lecturer on methods of
evaluating and addressing the strategic challenges and risks posed to
companies by the explosion of electronically stored information. She
is on the board of Lawyers for Civil Justice and serves on the faculty
of Columbia University’s Executive Master of Science in Technology Management program. Ms. Brickell obtained her B.A. from Smith College
and her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.
Jim Donahue, Esq. – Manager, Research & Implementation
Jim Donahue works with both H5 clients and internal personnel to ensure that all the subject matter requirements of a given engagement are met. Prior to joining H5, Mr. Donahue worked as an associate for Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. He has also conducted a variety of civil litigation contract work and has taught courses for non-attorneys in a diverse range of legal topics. Mr. Donahue is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
Michael Factor – Practice Director
Michael Factor manages new business development with leading national corporations and law firms. He has 20 years of sales and sales management experience. Before joining H5, Mr. Factor worked for Autonomy-ZANATAZ, where he sold e-discovery software applications and compliant hosted archiving services to Fortune 1000 organizations. In 2007 he was ranked ZANTAZ’s top sales representative. Previously, he sold software and consulting services for GL Associates and GE Capital Information Technology Services. Mr. Factor graduated with a B.S. in real estate from Florida State University.
Marc Fink, Esq. – Practice Director
Marc Fink manages new business development with leading national corporations and law firms. Before joining H5, Mr. Fink was a vice president and divisional compliance advisor with Merrill Lynch, serving as the primary compliance resource for over 90 branch offices. Prior to that he worked at Schwartz Nardello, LLP, where he served as a senior investigative counsel of the Citigroup monitorship team in conjunction with the Global Research Settlement Agreement. Mr. Fink co-authored the official monitorship report, which was submitted to the SEC, NYSE, and the NASD. Previously, Mr. Fink served as an associate director in the Legal Department of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. Before that, he was a trial counsel with the New York Stock Exchange Division of Enforcement after working as a senior associate at Bower & Gardner, a product liability and medical malpractice defense firm. Mr. Fink began his legal career as an assistant district attorney in New York County. He earned his B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany and his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law.
Bruce Hedin, Ph.D. – Principal Scientist, Professional Services
Bruce Hedin is a senior consultant in H5’s Professional Services Group. At H5, Dr. Hedin’s areas of focus have been process design, sampling, and metrics. Previously, Dr. Hedin worked at YY Technologies, a firm developing natural language processing software. His publications include “Domain Analysis and Representation” in The Handbook for Language Engineers (2003), and “Searching in all the Wrong Places: The Effectiveness of Search Tools in E-Discovery,” Digital Discovery & e-Evidence (January 2007). Dr. Hedin received a B.A. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in classics from Stanford University.
Christopher Hogan – Head of Advanced Research and Development
Christopher Hogan is head of Advanced Research and Development at H5. His research focuses on creating innovative linguistic technologies to support and extend H5’s unique approach to document review and preservation services. Mr. Hogan has been involved in the field of computational linguistics for fifteen years and has worked in the areas of information retrieval, speech recognition, and machine translation. He has published papers on a number of topics, including information retrieval and acquisition of lexical resources. Mr. Hogan received his B.A. in mathematics and computer science from Pomona College and his M.S. in computational linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University.
Michael D. Morneault, Esq. – Practice Director
Michael Morneault manages new business development with leading national corporations and law firms. Prior to joining H5, Mr. Morneault was vice president and chief investment officer of Innovation Works, a seed-stage venture capital fund. Previously, he was at McKesson Corporation, where he first served as general counsel and then as vice president of strategy and business development for the Fortune 20 company’s healthcare automation businesses. Before joining McKesson, he practiced law in the Business and Finance Group of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. Mr. Morneault also served with distinction in the Army’s 3rd U.S. Infantry (the “Old Guard”) in Washington, D.C. Mr. Morneault is a distinguished graduate of Southern Vermont College and the University of Wisconsin–Madison Law School, where he graduated cum laude.
Thomas N. Murray, Jr., Esq. – Corporate Counsel
As corporate counsel and secretary, Thomas Murray is responsible for administering all legal matters for H5. Prior to joining H5, Mr. Murray practiced corporate law with two Bay Area Am Law 100 firms, advising a wide variety of clients, including technology companies, on all aspects of their business and financial activities and helping them manage complex transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, financings, and initial public offerings. He has been a speaker and panelist in forums regarding the challenges faced by in-house counsel, including data security and managing outside counsel. Mr. Murray earned his B.A. in government and Russian & Soviet studies from Cornell University and his J.D., cum laude, from Tulane Law School.
Michael Rubenstein, Esq. – Senior Practice Director
At H5 Michael Rubenstein has managed engagements involving the review and analysis of over 100 million pages of text for clients in the financial services, healthcare, energy, and technology sectors. Prior to joining H5, Mr. Rubenstein served as managing partner of Document Technologies, Inc., a national litigation services firm, where he oversaw regional operations including multiple outsourced document and data production facilities. A former practicing attorney at Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, he has also held a variety of client development and marketing positions in emerging legal technology firms, including CaseCentral, Inc., a provider of legal data repository and software application services. Mr. Rubenstein is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School.
Dan Savitt, Esq. – Practice Director
Dan Savitt manages new business development with leading national corporations and law firms. Prior to joining H5, Mr. Savitt served as a senior executive with a leading offshore legal services firm based in New York and India, where he counseled clients on how to obtain best value from their litigation budgets while complying with their professional and business responsibilities. He was responsible for launching offshore litigation and compliance services, particularly document reviews for a range of legal matters, including antitrust, internal and government investigations, unfair trade practices, and consumer products liability class actions. Mr. Savitt also served as the strategic contact for in-house and outside counsel. Previously, Mr. Savitt was an associate with the New York offices of Arent Fox PLLC and Thelen Reid & Priest, where he specialized in complex commercial litigation. Mr. Savitt is a graduate of Penn State University and Cornell Law School.
Philip Strauss, Esq. – Practice Director
Phil Strauss manages new business development with leading national corporations and law firms. Before joining H5, Mr. Strauss was vice president and general counsel at Actuate Corporation, Brio Software, and MarketTools, Inc. He also held a senior counsel position supporting the Intelligent Document Business Unit at Adobe Systems Incorporated. Before going in-house, Mr. Strauss was in private practice as a corporate associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York and as a litigation associate at Jones Day in Chicago and served a judicial clerkship with the Supreme Court of Alaska. He has also been active in the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), for which he founded the San Francisco Bay Area chapter’s Corporate Counsel University training program. He has had numerous speaking engagements and publications in the area of corporate law. Mr. Strauss holds a B.A. in international relations from Emory University, a J.D. from Duke University, and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is an adjunct instructor teaching business law.
Blake Sturcke – Practice Director
Blake Sturcke manages new business development with leading national corporations and law firms. Before joining H5, Mr. Sturcke worked for 15 years in the investment banking and financial services industry in New York and Hong Kong. He held director-level positions at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank, and most recently served as a managing director in the Equity Capital Markets Division at Wachovia Securities. Earlier in his career, Mr. Sturcke was involved in providing corporate finance and capital markets advisory services and executing financing transactions for corporate clients across the technology, telecom, consumer/retail, and industrials verticals. Mr. Sturcke co-founded the Bucknell Finance Network and served as co-chairman of the organization for several years. He earned a B.A. in economics from Bucknell University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, where he graduated Beta Gamma Sigma.
Gina Taranto, Ph.D. – Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives
Gina Taranto is H5’s senior manager of strategic initiatives and a key technical advisor on client engagements. Prior to joining H5, Dr. Taranto worked as a research linguist at A-Life Medical, Inc., and Northrop Grumman Information Systems. Dr. Taranto’s areas of specialization are discourse analysis, semantics, pragmatics, and natural language processing; her publications include the book Discourse Adjectives. She received her B.A. from Kresge College at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with honors and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.
Stephen P. Van Liere, Esq. – Practice Director
Steve Van Liere manages new business development with leading national corporations and law firms. Mr. Van Liere has worked as a lawyer, recruiter, and provider of services to the legal industry for 25 years. He joined H5 from the executive search firm Korn Ferry International, where he conducted national searches for general counsels, law firm partners, and executives. Prior to working at Korn Ferry, Mr. Van Liere was a legal executive search consultant for Highland Partners (now part of Heidrick & Struggles), and prior to that he founded his own legal recruiting and contract lawyer business in San Francisco called The Tiro Company. Mr. Van Liere was a business litigator with the former San Francisco law firm Landels Ripley & Diamond, and worked for many years as regional vice president for the American Arbitration Association, the world’s largest provider of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services. Mr. Van Liere earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he graduated as a Tony Patino Fellow.
