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Advanced eDiscovery Institute: The Business of eDiscovery -- 'The Times They Are A-Changin'''



Product Code - LGAU24
Speaker(s): Carol L. Eoannou, Bloomberg BNA; Robert A. Eisenberg, Precise, Inc.; Debra Logan, Gartner, Inc.; Michael Potters, The Glenmont Group; Ashish S. Prasad, Discovery Services LLC
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This panel builds upon themes that were introduced during last year’s novel session and continues to explore the extraordinary transformation that is taking place in the eDiscovery industry. Issues that will be analyzed include: Law firm trends regarding eDiscovery practices; How law firms and providers are pricing eDiscovery services (hourly, alternative or flat fee?); What business models are working for vendors, and which models can no longer compete; How to avoid the “race-to-the-bottom” when pricing services; Whether a cost-per-Gigabyte billing structure is still viable; What are the biggest areas of predicted growth for the industry; the ongoing debate and trends around corporations in-sourcing vs. outsourcing eDiscovery services; and what new technologies and pricing models are the hottest?

Please note: There was an issue with the audio recording for this event and there are a few minutes where the audio quality is not up to our standards. However, this only lasts a short time and then improves and is of good quality for the remainder of the program.

Carol L. Eoannou, Bloomberg BNA; Robert A. Eisenberg, Precise, Inc.; Debra Logan, Gartner, Inc.; Michael Potters, The Glenmont Group; Ashish S. Prasad, Discovery Services LLC

Carol L. Eoannou / Bloomberg BNA
Carol L. Eoannou is a managing editor at Bloomberg BNA. Her responsibilities include directing the content for BNA's Digital Discovery & e-Evidence web-based notification service, one of the oldest publications that reports on using electronically stored information in litigation and developing ancillary e-discovery-focused products, including webinars and books.

Robert A. Eisenberg / Precise, Inc.
Robert A. Eisenberg is the Vice President of discovery consulting at Precise, Inc. Eisenberg has more than 30 years of legal industry expertise, from practicing law and consulting services related to the discovery of electronically stored information (ESI), computer forensics, and proactive electronic data preservation and retention. As Precise’s vice president of discovery consulting, Eisenberg collaborates with clients to further ensure the cultivation of comprehensive, fitting discovery solutions. Eisenberg’s accomplishments include serving as the founding chair and permanent co-chair of the Advanced E-Discovery Institute (AEI) at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., as well as the originator and founding co-chair of Georgetown Law Center’s EDiscovery Training Academy. Additionally, Eisenberg is a founding member of The Sedona Conference Working Group (SWG) on Best Practices for Electronic Data Retention and Production, most recently served as vice president of eDiscovery consulting at Capital Legal Solutions, Inc., and acted as a former principal with Navigant Consulting.

Debra Logan / Gartner, Inc.
Debra Logan is a Vice President and Distinguished Analyst with Gartner, the world’s largest IT advisory firm. She has been with Gartner for 11 years and during that time she has covered topics ranging from knowledge management and document management to the technology and process around e-Discovery and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Logan had a consulting practice assisting U.K. and European organizations in records management, information governance and technology assessment and selection for those purposes. Ms Logan has written extensively on the subject of e-Discovery, records management, information retention management and information governance She is the author of Gartner’s main e-discovery technology assessment, the Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Software. She is a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College and the University of Pittsburgh, where she obtained a Masters degree in Information Science.

Michael Potters / The Glenmont Group
Michael Potters co-founded Glenmont Group in 2001. Michael leveraged his twenty plus years of experience in business development and management, specializing in Enterprise Content Management and Legal Technology. Noticing the absence of a firm specializing in the recruitment and placement of highly-qualified legal technology talent and having personally recruited, hired and trained hundreds of technology leaders, Michael set off to create a “best of breed” boutique firm. In five short years, Michael led the successful growth of Glenmont Group to become the largest Executive search firm dedicated to the practice of Professional Services, Legal Technology and Law firm Marketing. He prides himself on his ability to find the right fit for both his clients and his candidates. Having successfully run and built a number of business units, Michael knows very clearly what it takes to drive revenue to a corporation's bottom line. In 2005, Michael was selected to be on the Advisory Board of the highly respected IQPC E-Discovery Group.

Ashish S. Prasad / Discovery Services LLC
Ashish Prasad is the Founder and CEO of Discovery Services LLC, a document review and electronic discovery company headquartered in Chicago with operational capabilities throughout the United States. Ashish has assisted dozens of large companies and law firms with discovery matters over the past decade, and he is widely regarded as among the leading experts on discovery in the United States. Ashish has served, among other things, as: Litigation Partner, and Founder and Chair of the Electronic Discovery and Records Management Practice, at Mayer Brown LLP; Executive Editor of The Sedona Principles: Best Practices for Addressing Electronic Document Production; Co-Editor in Chief of the Practicing Law Institute treatise Electronic Discovery Desk Book; and Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University Law School, where he teaches civil discovery and topics in litigation. Ashish has authored over a dozen articles and given over a hundred legal education presentations on the topics of electronic discovery, pretrial litigation and case management over the past decade.