Sponsor: EMC
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Debra Logan, Andrew Cohen, Jake Frazier, Laurie Weiss
Type: Video (39 minutes)
It didn’t take long for litigants and government investigators to realize that digital evidence, such as emails and electronic documents, often contains the most critical information that can make or break a case.
Good Information Governance Goes Beyond Simple Archiving
Listen to industry experts from featured analyst firm, Garter, Inc., and opinion leaders from EMC Corporation and Fulbright & Jaworski, as they discuss how you can cut your organization’s eDiscovery costs, storage requirements, and backup windows in half with a flexible portfolio of integrated e-mail management, eDiscovery, and archiving products.
In this program, you’ll learn how to reduce risk while creating repeatable business processes that comply with the federal rules of civil procedure. You’ll hear the experts discuss how the marketplace is evolving from reactive discovery to true information governance. And you’ll learn what your information governance priorities should be from both a short and long-term perspective.
Additionally, you’ll hear about the milestones you can expect to hit along the road to information governance, how to avoid some of the most common organizational pitfalls surrounding information governance, and these other important eDiscovery topics:
- The risks of not doing anything – short and long-term
- The trend of adopting ECA (early case assessment) in-house
- The ways in which eDiscovery is being driven by external litigations, internal litigations, and proactive preparation
- The importance of scale and performance
- The criticality of enterprise-wide eDiscovery
- The value of dynamic content search
- Who, in your organization, should champion the efforts of bringing eDiscovery in-house or behind the firewall
- The risks of bringing eDiscovery in-house
- The future of eDiscovery
IT and Legal confront disparate challenges from boosting operational efficiency to mitigating risk and ensuring litigation readiness. Watch this new program and learn how both parties can take charge of information governance. Go now.
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About Debra Logan, Research VP, Gartner
Debra Logan is a vice president in Gartner Research. She covers enterprise content management, records management, knowledge management and worker productivity, intellectual capital and intellectual property topics and compliance as related to documentation and records. She is currently researching topics in enterprise information management, information quality, information assets and liabilities and e-discovery.
Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Logan was an independent consultant to IT organizations in the United Kingdom and Europe, helping them to formulate strategies and evaluate technologies. She had previously worked for a company that specialized in knowledge-based systems and artificial intelligence applications
About Andrew Cohen, Esq., Vice President and General Manager of eDiscovery & Compliance solutions, Content Management & Archiving Division, EMC Corporation
Andrew Cohen is the Vice President and General Manager of the eDiscovery and Compliance solutions in the Content Management and Archiving Division of EMC Corporation. EMC is a Fortune 500 company and the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions. Mr. Cohen is responsible for building out the go-to-market strategy, products and revenue relating to EMC's eDiscovery and compliance offerings. Previously, Mr. Cohen spent over a decade within the EMC Legal Department, most recently as the Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, responsible for Mergers and Acquisitions, Litigation, Investigations, Employment, and Corporate Compliance. In this capacity, Mr. Cohen also implemented best practices in the areas of eDiscovery and litigation hold, records and information management, electronic matter management, and electronic billing. Mr. Cohen has been recognized by Corporate Counsel Magazine as a Fortune 500 "Litigation Chief".
While serving as Assistant General Counsel, Mr. Cohen built an eDiscovery business based on his passion for the law and EMC solutions. He hired a team with legal, compliance and engineering domain expertise, dedicated to helping EMC customers "bridge the gap between legal and IT." Leveraging EMC's unique technology stack and market position, Mr. Cohen's team validated practical and unique technology solution bundles to help companies solve their most acute compliance challenges, including those relating to "bringing eDiscovery in-house" and practical strategies for records and information management, including "defensible deletion" of electronic content.
Mr. Cohen is a member of the Sedona Conference's working groups on litigation hold, electronic document retention and production, email archiving, and international eDiscovery, and he is on the steering committee of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group. Mr. Cohen has written numerous articles and given numerous presentations including on issues dealing with eDiscovery, records retention, email archiving, content management, litigation and employment law, and corporate compliance. He also publishes on his blog - http://andrewsblog.emc.com. Additionally, he is a member of the litigation and employment law sections of the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations, the records retention subcommittee of the American Bar Association, as well as the Association of Corporate Counsel and the New England Labor Counsel. Mr. Cohen graduated cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree from Cornell University and earned his juris degree from the University of Michigan Law School.
Prior to joining EMC in 1998, Mr. Cohen was a member of the employment department of Goodwin, Procter LLP, and prior to that was a litigation associate at Hale and Dorr LLP. He lives in Northborough, Massachusetts with his wife and three children.
About Jake Frazier, MBA, Esq., Senior Director, EMC SourceOne eDiscovery - Kazeon
Jake Frazier received a bachelor's degree in psychology from The University of Cincinnati, a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law at Arizona State University. Mr. Frazier is also a member of the Arizona State Bar and has received the International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award for Advocacy and the Willard H. Pedrick Scholar Award.
About Laurie Weiss, Partner, Fulbright & Jaworksi L.L.P.
Laurie Weiss is a partner in Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.'s San Antonio, Texas office and has an active litigation practice. Prior to joining Fulbright & Jaworski in 1988, Laurie had a 10-year career in business, including work with a service company providing computer-based risk management information services to major U.S. corporations. She is co-head of Fulbright's E-Discovery and Information Management Group. Laurie represents clients in litigation matters and investigations involving discovery of electronically stored information and has guided clients through the meet and confer process and the complex process of identifying, preserving, collecting, processing, reviewing, and producing electronically stored information.
Laurie received her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law.
