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ACEDS March 2015 Members Only Webcast - Why What We Do Is Important
1. Why What We Do Is Important
ACEDS Members Only Webcast
Tom O’Connor
Advanced Discovery
Senior ESI Consultant
ACEDS Advisory Board
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3. Presenter
• Senior Consultant, Advanced Discovery
• Director, Gulf Coast Legal Technology
Center
• Nationally known expert, author and
speaker in areas of computerized
litigation support systems and e-
discovery
• ACEDS Advisory Board
Tom O’Connor
Senior Consultant
Advanced Discovery
10. Access to Justice
• ABF:
• 70%% of poor households have a legal problem
• Only 4% consult a lawyer
• Don’t know they have a legal issue!
• Middle Class
• 60% with legal problem don’t consult a lawyer
• Too expensive
11. Duties of Counsel
• Duties to Client
Confidentiality
Loyalty to Client
• Duties to Court
Oversee Discovery
Confer Early
• Technical Competence
• SAME AS IT EVER WAS
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13. “Litigation habits and customs
learned in the days of paper
must be revisited and revised.
The culture of bench and bar
must adjust.”
Hon. Lee Rosenthal
United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division.
Former Chair, Standing Committee on Rules of the Judicial Conference
Paradigm Shift
15. Cooperation
• FRCP say “what” and
“when”
• Preservation
• Discovery plan (including
production format)
• Mancia case says “how”
• Sedona Cooperation
Proclamation