Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Time: 01:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Duration: 1 hour
Corporate legal teams use a vast array of tools and strategies in their efforts to manage a growing number of eDiscovery projects. Strategies range from having no strategy at all to outsourcing everything to consolidating all their projects onto a single internal platform specifically designed to make in-house eDiscovery easy, efficient and affordable.
In-house counsel experience much greater degrees of success in critical areas when they use in-house platforms. So why are many corporate counsel still overpaying to outsource eDiscovery? Why do they continue to try to use IT tools for collecting and identifying relevant data or rely on their IT teams to create makeshift solutions?
In this ACEDS webinar, eDiscovery experts Mary Mack, Johannes Scholtes and Jeffrey Wolff look at the different ways companies handle eDiscovery requests. They will use the “eDiscovery Maturity Model” to evaluate the effectiveness of the various tools and strategies and show these affect the efforts to effectively manage eDiscovery.
Take-aways from the webinar:
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Learn how different tools and strategies compare to others, including in-house platforms, regarding key factors such as the quality of results, security, workflow efficiencies, and costs.
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Discover where your organization stands in the eDiscovery Maturity Model and how your abilities to manage eDiscovery are affected by the tools and strategies used.
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See how the eDiscovery Maturity Model outlines a process through which legal professionals can comfortably grow into using advanced technologies such as data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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.
Jeffrey Wolff
eDiscovery Director
ZyLAB
Jeffrey Wolff joined ZyLAB as eDiscovery Director in May 2015 with over 20 years of experience in Information Systems and enterprise software. He has been involved in solution architecture, design, and implementation for major projects within the Department of Defense and Fortune 1000 corporations.
Prior to joining ZyLAB, Mr. Wolff held senior positions within firms specializing in Microsoft SharePoint and enterprise search solutions, so he has vast technical knowledge in the fundamentals of information management and eDiscovery.
Mary Mack
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.
