Law and Candor Bill Mariano and Rob Hellewell

In this special edition of Law & Candor, co-hosts Rob Hellewell and Bill Mariano are joined by Lighthouse’s CEO, Brian McManus, to discuss his take on the industry impacts of COVID-19. The group will discuss impacts to company priorities, common themes being heard throughout the industry, as well as the lasting impact of this pandemic on the legal space.

Maintaining on-premises ediscovery software typically involves a large cost and security burden, especially when it comes to small matter management like third-party subpoenas, internal investigations, and quick-turn government inquiries. In this session, we’ll hear from experts at a law firm and corporation and how they embraced a self-service, SaaS tool to independently manage their small matters without the responsibility and resources required to deploy and host the application themselves. We’ll discuss the steps they took to implement SaaS and use it to enhance their ediscovery workflow by having the most advanced search, analytics, and review software at their fingertips.

Today’s legal teams are bombarded with ever-evolving technology and data sources and it is now more challenging than ever to combat the cost and complexities associated with legal data. Co-hosts Bill Mariano and Rob Hellewell, alongside Josh Kreamer of AstraZeneca, will divulge revolutionary ways for overcoming legal data challenges by leveraging tools like big data, analytics, the Cloud, and Office 365. Listen in to discover how you and your team can tackle big data challenges and become top of your ediscovery game.

In this session, our podcast hosts and guest speaker, Mike Brown, will uncover the how Microsoft 365 (M365) and GDPR have changed company attitudes from a more reactive response to triggering ediscovery events to a much more proactive approach around preparation and information governance. They will also uncover how, in different civil law jurisdictions, discovery obligations differ and therefore ediscovery discussions are less relevant without considering more fundamental information governance issues, something that M365 lends itself to.

With the widespread proliferation of electronic data, privacy and data protection have become a worldwide issue and a top priority for regulators. In this segment, we’ll discuss how GDPR has impacted the ediscovery world, both globally and in the US since its enactment. In particular, we will focus on key ways to ensure concrete information governance and compliance practices to mitigate risks around data privacy and security.

In this episode, industry veteran and legal technology innovator, Chris Dahl, will share some of the most forward-thinking and innovative solutions to current ediscovery, information governance, and compliance challenges in 2020. Chris, alongside co-hosts, Bill and Rob, will discuss and evaluate these new ideas and weigh in on which ones are worth investing in.