e-Discovery & e-Investigations Forum

2013 Executive Summary

2013 Key Themes

The e-Discovery and e-Investigations Forum is designed to meet the needs of key stakeholders and decision makers who are responsible for ensuring compliance with legal requirements, managing internal investigations and preparing for or responding to regulatory investigations and litigation events.

The agenda provides strategic and technical advice, examples of best practice and practical case studies that detail how organisations can keep the costs of compliance to a minimum and ensure an efficient response to data requests from internal or external parties.

The results of the recent 'e-Disclosure 2020' survey that polled over 200 representatives of global business and legal services firms indicates that over 85% of IT and legal professionals believe, due to trends in their organisation, that there will be an increased requirement to retrieve targeted data related to individuals, actions, or events. The survey results further demonstrate that the majority of respondents agreed that:

The main cause of inefficiency when trying to locate relevant data is that the methodology used returns a high volume of irrelevant records
The main reasons for large volumes of irrelevant data being returned in searches is that data has not been consistently or adequately organised into clearly defined categories when saved or archived
The technological trend of most concern in terms of ability to retrieve data is the storage of company data on web-based third-party servers
The need to retrieve electronic data in cases of litigation, regulation or investigation will necessitate the creation of a new in-house function that manages all business processes that relate to data creation, storage and retrieval

Those attending include heads and directors of IT, compliance, investigations, forensics, records management, privacy, audit, legal and HR. Industry sectors typically represented range from finance and legal services through to oil and gas, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing.

This conference delivers delegates with solution frameworks that can help reduce risk, enable operational flexibility, minimise complexity, create value and keep costs low.

Ensuring an appropriate level of preparedness for events or incidents that require the discovery of specific electronic data
Resolving the disconnect between high-level governance or compliance requirements, business processes and IT operations

Addressing strategic, operational and technological factors that increase the costs of key tasks such as data retrieval and processing
Building processes to manage regulatory, technology and information risks that are created by a lack of coordination between IT and legal functions

Resolving key issues that impact the ability to meet internal, legal, or regulatory deadlines when responding to an event
Optimising business responsiveness to data requests by using a framework that clearly defines the scope of what information is being sought

Understanding the impacts of a changing business and technology landscape on e-discovery or e-investigations risk profile
Assessing the knock on effect for e-discovery of developments in data storage, collaborative tools, social networking and governance platforms

Organisations attending in 2012 included:

2012 Speakers included:

3 Verulam Buildings ~ 5 Paper Buildings ~ Age UK ~ Allen & Overy ~ Alstom ~ Alvarez & Marsal ~ AMEC ~ American Express ~ Ashurst ~ Astellas Pharma ~ AstraZeneca ~ Bank of New York Mellon ~ Barclays ~ Berwin Leighton Paisner ~ BG Group ~ Bristows ~ British Airways ~ British American Tobacco ~ BT ~ Candey Parker ~ Cardiff University ~ Cards Prepaid ~ Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton ~ City of London Police ~ Clifford Chance ~ COLT Telecom Group ~ Credit Suisse ~ DAC Beachcroft ~ Dawson Cornwell ~ Diageo ~ DLA Piper ~ Edwards Wildman Palmer ~ Eversheds ~ Fasthosts ~ Fidelity International ~ Fidelity Investments ~ Finers Stephens Innocent ~ First Rate Exchange Services ~ Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer ~ Friends Life ~ Fujitsu ~ Gala Coral Group ~ GE Capital ~ Hargreaves Lansdown ~ Haringey Council ~ Herbert Smith Freehills ~ HM Revenue & Customs ~ Hogan Lovells ~ Holman Fenwick & Willan ~ HSBC ~ Hunton & Williams ~ ICE plc ~ Informa ~ JP Morgan Chase ~ JTI ~ Kingsley Napley ~ Kranenburg ~ Kroll Ontrack ~ Legal & General ~ London College of Science & Technology ~ Mayer Brown International ~ McFarlanes ~ McGuireWoods ~ Metropolitan Police Service ~ Microsoft ~ Mi-Pay ~ MoneySupermarket ~ National Grid ~ Orange ~ Osborne Clarke ~ Paralaw ~ Pinsent Masons ~ Post Office ~ Raytheon Systems ~ Reed Smith ~ Royal Bank of Scotland ~ Speechly Bircham ~ Squire Sanders & Dempsey ~ Standard Chartered Bank ~ Stroz Friedberg ~ The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) ~ The Travellers Companies ~ TNT ~ Tobacco Manufacturers Association ~ UCB ~ Unilever ~ White & Case ~ WPP Group ~ Wragge & Co ~ YourCash ~ ZyLAB and more!

Ian Leedham, Senior Counsel

National Grid

Michel Cottin, Records Management

Orange

Marcella Harshbarger, Corporate Attorney

Orange

Adam Hughes, IT Compliance Engineer

BG Group

Mark Rouse, IT Forensics Manager

Clifford Chance

Nicholas Burkill, Partner

Dorsey & Whitney

Kate Paslin, Associate General Counsel, International

AccessData

Steven Lee, Senior Director

Alvarez & Marsal

Ed Sautter, Partner

Mayer Brown International LLP

Robert Kenny MBCS, eDiscovery Specialist

ZyLAB UK Ltd

Graham Ashworth, Information Intelligence Group Specialist

Symantec

Martin Baldock, Managing Director

Stroz Friedberg

Steve Grant, Senior Consultant & Team Leader,
Computer Forensics, Legal Technologies

Kroll Ontrack

Nick Patience, Director, Product Marketing & Strategy

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This event welcomes in excess of 150 senior decision makers:	Delegates attending include directors and managers:
From industries that include: Banking Insurance Real Estate Telecoms Retail Media Legal Pharmaceuticals Transport and Logistics Defence Manufacturing ISPs	From business functions that include: Group IT Information/IT Security Investigations Fraud prevention Technology & Operational Risk Regulatory Compliance Financial Crime Prevention Group Security CERT Digital Forensics Business Continuity Audit

What the market says

The conference was extremely well-run, very organized, and on time. I appreciate the mix of industry players, and the fact that it included participants from all disciplines – legal, records management, IT, and project management. As businesses deal with global regulations and transactions that cross borders, challenges must be met with interdisciplinary teams – we can no longer say this is a legal or an IT problem. It must be attacked from several angles, and we must assemble teams with varying perspectives. Your conference brought those types of people together.
Corporate Attorney, Orange

The knowledgeable and entertaining speakers, really relevant topics, attendees who were genuinely interested in the subject-matter, superb organisation, and great venue, made this the best event of its kind I have ever attended. All of the presentations were relevant and timely, and slotted-together seamlessly. And they were in the right order – each adding to the one before.It was great to hear every speaker emphasising the vital importance and benefits of good Records Management, as the solid base on which to build your e-Discovery strategy. This event educated the less-well-informed, re-assured the moderately savvy, and validated the most knowledgeable amongst us. Everyone learned something worthwhile. Thanks to you and all of your team – the whole event was beautifully orchestrated.
Specialist in Compliant Records Management, JTI

The e-Discovery & e-Investigations Forum was an interesting mix of legal and technical experts sharing their knowledge, stories and the realities of projects and situations gained across the spectrum of industry and commerce. I found it reassuring that I am not alone experiencing and facing the difficulties and challenges of eDiscovery that are thrown up by complex cases. I look forward to the 2013 conference.
Senior Information Management Consultant, Fujitsu

The e-Discovery and e-Investigations Forum was hugely beneficial for me and my company. It was an excellent opportunity to share with and to listen to the experiences of representatives from other organisations learning to deal with the challenges of e-Discovery. The speakers offered fresh insights and global perspectives on the issue and the forum also provided an opportunity to meet and discuss with the major e-Discovery solution providers. I look forward to next year's forum.
Archive Manager, AMEC plc

Excellent speakers and good range of talks so you could view the issues from several angles. Good mix of people too - great networking opportunity, many thanks.
Records Manager/Archivist, Unilever