Date: 11/6/2018

Time: 1-2 PM ET

Contact: ACEDS

customerservice@aceds.org

844-992-2337

Although Full-text search has been available since the early 1960, searching and finding relevant documents for legal applications is still a major challenge for most users. Google is great for searching the web, but is unsuited for legal or eDiscovery searches.

This past September, it was exactly 35 years ago that ZyLAB was founded by a group of employees from the famous Bell Labs in Buffalo Grove (near Chicago), Illinois on.

These founders recognized the need for a strong search engine, addressing the specific requirements of the legal industry. Over the years, more than 600,000 copies of ZyINDEX have been sold and has become a favorite tool for corporate legal, investigation and R&D departments, as well as lawyers, regulatory agencies and various other government organizations.

In this ACEDS webinar, eDiscovery experts Mary Mack, Johannes Scholtes and Brenda Dodd look at specific requirements of legal search: why is it different from other search application and why standard IT tools are not suited to do the job.

Take-aways from the webinar:

• Understand why Legal search different from other search application and why standard IT tools are not suited to do the job
• Learn what different search tools are available, such as but not limited to: basic Boolean keyword search, proximity-, quorum-, fuzzy-, number-, date- and text-range searching
• Discover how search can be used in combination with text-mining, embedded machine translation, audio search, topic modeling, duplicate search, and machine-learning based search.
• See how you can use advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence to develop a solid search strategy that both boosts and measures recall and precision.

Speakers:

Johannes C. Scholtes, Ph.D.
Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer
ZyLAB

Johannes C. Scholtes, professor and holder of the Extraordinary Chair in Text Mining in the Artificial Intelligence group at the University of Maastricht and CSO of ZyLAB. Johannes C. Scholtes, Ph.D. is Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of ZyLAB. Scholtes, who was the company’s President and CEO from 1989 to 2009, shaped ZyLAB as an Information Management powerhouse across the globe. With his leadership and vision, ZyLAB is a partner for the United Nations War Crime Tribunals, FBI-Enron investigations, and the United States White House Executive Office of the President. Before joining ZyLAB, Scholtes was a lieutenant in the intelligence department of the Royal Dutch Navy. Scholtes holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Delft University of Technology and a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from the University of Amsterdam. As of 2008, he holds the Extraordinary Chair in Text Mining from the Department of Data Sciences and Knowledge Engineering in the Artificial Intelligence group at the University of Maastricht.

Brenda Dodd
Senior Consultant – Legal Technologies
ZyLAB

Brenda Dodd is a Certified eDiscovery Specialist who has well over twenty years of experience in litigation consulting and eDiscovery management in both law firms and corporate environments where she has been instrumental in defining best practices and procedures for designing and utilizing a technology strategy for cost-effective and efficient management of electronically stored information.Prior to joining ZyLAB, Brenda served as the internal eDiscovery process and policy thought leader at PNC Bank, one of the United States largest financial institutions, where she was responsible for the implementation of the bank’s best practices and strategies for litigation readiness and electronic discovery, as well as the development of information governance procedures as it related to document retention and legal hold requirements. During her career, Brenda has held senior positions providing eDiscovery project management and consultation related to designing, implementing and managing internal eDiscovery programs and practice support technology for the pharmaceutical and retail industries as well as other software and service providers.

Mary Mack, CEDS
Executive Director
ACEDS

Mary Mack is a long-time industry expert with over 25 years of experience and leadership to her credit. Under her leadership, ACEDS furthers its commitment of building an international community of e-discovery practitioners for the exchange of training, certification, professional development and networking. Mack is known for her strength in relationship and community building, as well as for the depth of her e-discovery knowledge. Before joining ACEDS, Mary was the Enterprise Technology Counsel for ZyLAB, a global eDiscovery and Intelligent Information Governance software company focused on helping organizations insource eDiscovery to reduce legal spend and prevent privacy breaches and IP leakage. Prior to eDiscovery, Mary designed, coded, tested and maintained mission critical enterprise systems for banks, health insurers and pharmaceutical companies. Certified in eDiscovery, security, access and identity management, forensics and computer telephony, Mary is admitted to the Illinois bar and a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law. Mary is the author of A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery and the co-editor of Thomson Reuters West’s eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel.