EDRM Joins Educational Events for E-Discovery Day

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21
Nov
2016

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Second Annual E-Discovery Day Offers Practical, Accessible Education to All Legal Professionals

EDRM, the leading standards organization for the e-discovery market, announced today that George Socha will speak in educational events for E-Discovery Day on December 1, 2016.

E-Discovery Day is an industrywide initiative aimed at promoting e-discovery awareness and education. The second annual E-Discovery Day will offer a variety of educational webcasts on e-discovery trends, best practices and emerging topics. Virtual and live events will take place throughout the day, bringing together a diverse lineup of professionals, including many well-known e-discovery industry thought leaders.

“EDRM and the Center for Judicial Studies at Duke Law School are now a combined organization with a focus on building an integrated approach to the study and improvement of electronic discovery and information governance,” says Tom Hnatowski, director of EDRM. “E-Discovery Day provides the judiciary, practicing attorneys, scholars and students a terrific opportunity to partake in high-quality accessible education with experts in the field of E-Discovery.”

“E-discovery is growing in importance in the legal process,” says George Socha, co-founder of EDRM. “The webinars and other events on E-discovery Day offer a convenient way for anyone in the legal professions to quickly get up to speed on important topics facing our industry.”

Socha will speak in the following E-Discovery Day webinar sessions:

• 10 Years Forward and Back – Automation in eDiscovery (December 1, 2016 - 1:00 PM EST / 10:00 AM PST): This unique session highlights the progress of e-discovery technologies during the last decade and looks forward through the lens of innovation to the next 10 years of data discovery. This information-packed session includes some of the world’s foremost authorities on e-discovery who will be sharing their thoughts, considerations and recommended best practices for the use of technology-assisted review. The session format will allow each expert an opportunity to present followed by a short dialogue.
• E-Discovery Training for 2017 (December 1, 2016 - 5:30 PM EST / 2:30 PM PST): In this webcast, learn how to take your e-discovery acumen to the next level with insights from legal/e-discovery teachers on the topics you should be learning more about and how to get involved with educational e-discovery groups in 2017.