Monday, December 21, 2009

IE Discovery’s E-Discovery Symposium for Government Agencies a Success

IE Discovery, a arch provider of absolute Discovery Management solutions to the acknowledged community, presented its 2008 Electronic Discovery Symposium for Government Agencies on September 16, 2008 at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The affairs was the aboriginal anytime adherent alone to government agencies and departments. More than 150 attorneys, paralegals, arch advice officers, annal managers and advice technologists—from 35 altered government agencies and departments—were in attendance.

IE Discovery’s ambition in putting calm the appointment was to accompany calm assembly from a array of government agencies—as both attendees and speakers—to allotment adventures and expertise. M. Holly Mullen, Attorney with the Systems Operation Litigation annex of the Federal Aviation Administration, was in appearance and believed that the affairs met those objectives. “The accident was acutely advisory and exciting,” said Mullen. “It was a day able-bodied spent.”

The affairs was accurately advised to accommodate the advice and accoutrement all-important to advice government agencies accretion ascendancy over the analysis process. The adroitness for the one-day accident included added than a dozen experts in electronically stored advice from IE Discovery and assorted government agencies, including The Honorable John M. Facciola, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia and Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation, National Archives and Records Administration.

Judge Facciola’s bologna presentation, advantaged “An Old Hack Looks Back: E-Discovery from the Perspective of an Old Government Lawyer and Magistrate Judge,” was abnormally able-bodied accustomed by the admirers and centered on allowance government attorneys accept the accent of managing electronically stored advice properly. Judge Facciola bidding how important it is for government attorneys to be acceptable admiral for their audience and accept their abstracts and technology.

In his remarks, advantaged “Email Archiving: The Pros and Cons of ‘Saving Everything’ for Federal Agencies,” Mr. Baron accent the accent of the Federal Records Act, which establishes the framework for annal administration programs in the federal government. Mr. Baron’s agency, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is amenable for allowance federal agencies accede with the Act. He aswell fatigued accord and planning a allotment of attorneys, annal managers and IT staff.

The affairs agenda aswell covered all 5 capital apparatus of cyberbanking analysis (planning, collection, processing, analysis and production) and included console discussions on managing massive amounts of abstracts and advantage analysis as able-bodied as a keynote abode from Daniel G. Mintz, the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Transportation.

IE Discovery’s CEO, Chris May, addressed the admirers as well. “Government agencies are adverse abounding of the aforementioned issues as accumulated America—too abundant abstracts and not abundant compassionate of how to administer it, either as annal administration or as allotment of a analysis process,” said May. “We are admiring to be in a position to accompany calm so abounding altered humans from so abounding altered government agencies, all alive calm to get a handle on these important issues.”

About IE Discovery, Inc.
IE Discovery provides absolute Discovery Management and added action abutment casework to government agencies, accumulated law departments and alfresco admonition who commonly administer complex, information–intensive litigation. Utilizing abstruse and acknowledged expertise, IE Discovery helps audience advance their abundance and amount efficiency, and added accurately adumbrate their action expenditures. IE Discovery is based in Austin, Texas, with offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. For added information, appointment www.iediscovery.com.

Contact Information:
Craig Foster
IE Discovery, Inc.
Tel.: 512.498.7442
E-mail: cfoster@iediscovery.com

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