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Master of Laws students at The School of Law, Queen Mary University of London will have practical opportunities to study e-disclosure in a new academic course supported by Anexsys and kCura.
Eschewing traditional models, the course will combine guest lectures from a panel of leading lawyers and practitioners with in-depth access to Relativity, the leading e-disclosure software from kCura.
“e-Disclosure is now firmly at the heart of modern legal practice,” said Ian Walden, professor of information and communication law at QMUL’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies. “It is a world wide application of electronically stored information that will present new challenges for lawyers. For students to receive training by the leading experts in this field and get hands on training with Relativity is a huge opportunity.”
The course was conceived and put together by Maggi Healey, a former litigator who now specialises in e-disclosure at The Review People. From the beginning, the course was designed to offer students practical software experience across a full range of e-disclosure tasks from document review to quality control.
Jon Chan, Director of Technical Services at Anexsys, will serve as instructor for the course’s software modules.
"We are absolutely thrilled to be part of this ground-breaking course for the next generation of lawyers,” Chan said. “It seems Generation Y is expected to have a strong foundation in technology and it's often underappreciated how difficult it can be to grasp the sheer range of technical challenges presented by e-disclosure. The practical component of this course will go a long way towards preparing students for dealing with modern e-disclosure.”
In his instruction, Chan will combine experiences from his work at Anexsys, a Relativity Best in Service Premium Hosting Partner with material from kCura’s Relativity Academic Partner program, which will provide software licences for the course at no charge.
“kCura's Relativity Academic Partner program has expanded in the US and Canada at a steady pace,” said Janice Hollman, manager of the Relativity Academic Partner program. “We are pleased to assist Queen Mary University of London as they launch their first e-disclosure course.”
The new course begins in October and lasts for eleven weeks.
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