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LexisNexis Applied Discovery Offers Comprehensive “E-Discovery Best Practices” Certification Course
Course will offer legal professionals Comprehensive instruction on how to effectively manage electronic review
BELLEVUE, WA, September 27, 2004 - LexisNexis Applied Discovery, a leading provider of electronic discovery services to the nation’s top law firms and corporations, will offer two full-day sessions of its "E-Discovery Best Practices" certification course this Fall, with the first one in Bellevue, Wash. on Oct. 28 and a second course in New York on Nov. 17. The certification course is designed to provide legal professionals with comprehensive instruction on how to effectively manage electronic document review.
"At our certification courses Applied Discovery experts will share best practices developed from the work they do every day supporting the electronic discovery needs of the nation's top law firms," said Michele Vivona, Chief Operating Officer, LexisNexis Applied Discovery. "Our goal is to go beyond the basics and provide participants with an advanced understanding of how to successfully implement electronic document discovery."
The need for training among legal professionals that exceeds just the basics of electronic document discovery is growing as the practice becomes increasingly common in litigation, government investigations and merger and acquisition activity. Applied Discovery's intensive full-day "E-Discovery Best Practices" certification course is focused on providing legal professionals with working knowledge of essential electronic discovery topics.
"Let's face it - most of us went to law school instead of MIT because we didn't know anything about computers," said Kenneth Withers, Senior Judicial Attorney at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. "But today, the new rules and best practices for electronic discovery demand that you know at least the basics of your clients' IT systems, what you and your clients are capable of preserving and producing, and what you can reasonably ask from the other side. Most of the case law boils down to the same lesson: you must be knowledgeable and communicate effectively with the client, the opposing side, and the court. This means you have to keep up with developments on the practical side of e-discovery."
Experienced faculty from LexisNexis Applied Discovery will provide best practices training on how to effectively manage electronic document review at each of the full-day certification courses. The courses will include sessions on the latest case law and rules updates, as well as hands-on training on Applied Discovery's award-winning Online Review Application. In addition, experts from the legal industry also will participate. Retired Commissioner Richard E. Best (San Francisco) will be the guest speaker at the Bellevue course, and U.S. Magistrate Judge John J. Hughes (D. NJ) will speak at the New York course.
Participants are eligible for seven Continuing Legal Education credits for completing the certification course and will also receive a copy of Applied Discovery's Litigator's Resource Guide that contains extensive sample documents, checklists, fact sheets, white papers and other information. Participants can sign up for the course online via Applied Discovery's web site at www.lexisnexis.com/applieddiscovery. The course fee is $185.
About LexisNexis
LexisNexis® (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc [NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK] (www.reedelsevier.com), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. In addition to its flagship Web-based Lexis® and Nexis® research services, the company includes some of the world's most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell®, Matthew Bender®, Butterworths, JurisClasseur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac.
LexisNexis® Applied Discovery® (www.lexisnexis.com/applieddiscovery) provides a full line of electronic discovery services to the legal industry. Its patent-pending technology displays virtually any electronic document in a fully searchable and secure file without compromising the integrity of the original file format. Applied Discovery is based in Bellevue, Wash. with east coast headquarters in New York City and regional offices in Washington, D.C., Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Boston and Philadelphia. LexisNexis acquired Applied Discovery in July 2003. As part of the acquisition, Applied Discovery became part of the North American Legal Markets division of LexisNexis.
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