Thursday, November 16, 2006

8:45 – 9:30 a.m.
Keynote Address: The New Federal Rules – What They Mean for Electronic Discovery – Rationalization or Transformation
Lee H. Rosenthal, District Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, and Chair, Advisory Committee on Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

9:45 – 10:45 a.m.
Key Developments in the Case Law Over the Past Year and Trends Going Forward
Moderator: Ronald J. Hedges, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
Michael R. Arkfeld, Arkfield & Associates
Adam I. Cohen, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting, Inc.
Brent E. Kidwell, Jenner & Block LLP

10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Litigation Readiness Under the New Federal Rules
Moderator: Craig D. Ball, Law Offices of Craig D. Ball, PC
Woods Abbott, Senior Manager of Legal Operations, Raytheon Company
Thomas Y. Allman, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
Deidre Paknad, President & CEO, PSS Systems
Bill R. Schiefelbein, LECG, LLC

12:15 – 1:00 p.m.
Managing the E-Discovery Process
Moderator: Adam I. Cohen, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting, Inc.
Thomas I. Barnett, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Sherry B. Harris, Senior Case Management Specialist, Hunton & Williams LLP
Laura M. Kibbe, Managing Director, Discovery Response Team, Pfizer, Inc.

1:15 – 2:00 p.m.
Strategic Planning for E-Discovery in a Changing Environment
Moderator: Carol L. Eoannou, Managing Director, Digital Discovery & E-Evidence, Pike & Fischer, Inc.
Michael A. Clark, Managing Director, EDDix LLC
George J. Socha, Jr., Socha Consulting LLC
Christopher D. Wall, Legal Consultant, Kroll Ontrack Inc.

2:15 – 3:30 p.m.
What to Do When Litigation Starts: Preservation Issues, Initial Disclosures and the Initial Conference
Moderator: John L. Carroll, Dean and Ethel P. Malugen Professor of Law, Cumberland School of Law
Matthew I. Cohen, Alix Partners LLC
Conor R. Crowley, Labaton Sucharow & Rudoff LLP
Ann Kershaw, A. Kershaw, PC Attorneys & Consultants
Mark V. Reichenbach, Office of the General Counsel, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
David Schieferstein, Counsel, Records Management & E-Discovery Support, Philip Morris USA

3:45 – 5:00 p.m.
The Preservation Problem: Sanctions
Moderator: Jonathan M. Redgrave, Redgrave Daley Ragan & Wagner LLP
Lee H. Rosenthal, District Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, and Chair, Advisory Committee on Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Mark E. Michels, Dispute Resolution Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Patrick Oot, Director of Electronic Discovery and Senior Counsel, Verizon Communications
John J. Rosenthal, Howrey LLP
Ariana J. Tadler, Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP

Friday, November 17, 2006

9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Use of Traditional Discovery Mechanisms to Pursue E-Discovery: Interrogatories, Document Requests and the 30(b)(6) Deposition
Moderator: Dan Regard, Managing Director, LECG, LLC
Nan R. Nolan, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Mark L. Austrian, Kelley Drye Collier Shannon
Monica W. Latin, Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal LLP
James L. Michalowicz, Altman Weil, Inc.
Thomas Skelly, Director of Practice Information Services, Covington & Burling LLP

10:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Collecting Electronically Stored Information
Moderator: Martin J. Jaron, Jr., Holland & Knight LLP
Lee Curtis, Managing Director, High Tech Investigations and IT Consulting, AON Corporation
Kevin Esposito, Director, Electronic Discovery, Pfizer, Inc.
Eric M. Friedberg, Stroz Friedberg, LLC
Paul M. Robertson, Redgrave Daley Ragan & Wagner LLP

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Ethical Issues in E-Discovery
Moderator: Kevin F. Brady, Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP
Paul W. Grimm, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
Ronald J. Hedges, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
David J. Waxse, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas
Daniel J. Capra, Philip D. Reed Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Producing Electronically Stored Information
Moderator: Robert A. Eisenberg, Vice President, E-Discovery Consulting, Capital Legal Solutions, LLC
Paul W. Grimm, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
David J. Waxse, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas
Khizr M. Khan, National Litigation Technology Manager, Hogan & Hartson LLP
Joseph Looby, FTI Consulting, Inc.

3:15 – 4:15 p.m.
Evidentiary Admissibility Issues –

Now That You’ve Got It, How Are You Going to Use It
Moderator: David J. Lender, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Kent A. Jordan, District Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Delaware
Michael E. Lackey, Jr., Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

4:15 – 5:00 p.m.
Judicial Wrap Up – Hear From the Judges about What the Changes to the Rules Will Mean to You
Moderator: Lee H. Rosenthal, District Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, and Chair, Advisory Committee on Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
John M. Facciola, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
Paul W. Grimm, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
Ronald J. Hedges, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
Kent A. Jordan, District Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Delaware
Nan R. Nolan, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois