Free Webinar on the Use of E-Discovery in Litigation

The Honorable John J. Hughes, Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey, Robert L. Byman, Partner, Jenner & Block, and Montgomery N. Kosma, Attorney, Jones Day, will discuss the growing use and importance of e-discovery in modern day litigation.

October 14, 2005 -- In a free Xtalks webinar on November 8, 2005, from 1:00-3:00 p.m., The Honorable John J. Hughes, Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey, Robert L. Byman, Partner, Jenner & Block, and Montgomery N. Kosma, Attorney, Jones Day, will discuss the growing use and importance of e-discovery in modern day litigation. Joni Miller, from LIT Group, and Kathryn Hardie, from Attenex, will also be on hand for a workshop on using e-discovery.

There is still time to register for free at: http://www.xtalks.com/edisc.ashx

E-discovery is becoming increasingly important in litigation. The incorrect management of data can lead to overages in time and money. Each of the presenters will provide a different view of the topic and discuss such areas as:

•The importance of implementing a secure e-discovery system before any litigation issues arise
•How to prepare your e-data for presentation
•Knowing what data to keep and how to preserve it

The web conference is co-sponsored by Attenex and LIT Group, who will both host a workshop following the keynote presentation and before the Q&A session.

Registration for the event is currently open and free at: http://www.xtalks.com/edisc.ashx

About the Keynote Speakers

The Honorable John J. Hughes was appointed a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey in 1991. Judge Hughes is the judicial advisor to the Joint Administrative Office of the United States Courts / Department of Justice Working Group on Electronic Technology in the Criminal Justice System. He also contributed advice to the Federal Judicial Center during the drafting of Effective Use of Courtroom Technology: A Judge's Guide to Pretrial and Trial. Since 2000, he has developed three electronic trial advocacy programs, CPR for Courtroom Lawyers and Judges, Discovery and Demonstrative Evidence for the Digitally Dumbfounded, and Digital Defense, for presentation to bar associations, government offices, inns of court, law firms, law schools, and other groups.

Robert L. Byman is a partner in Jenner & Block's Chicago office. He is a member of the Firm's Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Arbitration: Domestic and International, Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Securities Litigation, and Products Liability and Mass Tort Defense Practices. Mr. Byman has tried dozens of cases to jury or bench verdict in a gamut of substantive areas, including intellectual property, commodities and securities, trade practices, environmental, employment, land use, professional liability, civil rights, and a wide variety of complex contractual disputes with issues such as insurance, construction, franchising, licensing, and corporate acquisitions and reorganizations. In 2000, Mr. Byman was lead counsel for General Electric Capital Corporation in a six-week jury trial in a complex contractual dispute against General Motors Corp. and its subsidiary DirecTV, Inc. The result for GECC was the largest jury verdict ever in the State of Connecticut -- $133,000,000 (The award was later increased to $181,000,000 as a result of offer-of-judgment interest and attorneys' fees.) He has also represented Hitachi, Sara Lee, Sunbeam, MacAndrews & Forbes/Revlon, General Dynamics and Bristol Myers. Honorable John J. Hughes was appointed a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey in 1991. Judge Hughes is the judicial advisor to the Joint Administrative Office of the United States Courts / Department of Justice Working Group on Electronic Technology in the Criminal Justice System. He also contributed advice to the Federal Judicial Center during the drafting of Effective Use of Courtroom Technology: A Judge's Guide to Pretrial and Trial. Since 2000, he has developed three electronic trial advocacy programs, CPR for Courtroom Lawyers and Judges, Discovery and Demonstrative Evidence for the Digitally Dumbfounded, and Digital Defense, for presentation to bar associations, government offices, inns of court, law firms, law schools, and other groups.

Montgomery Kosma is an antitrust lawyer whose practice emphasizes mergers and acquisitions in addition to criminal and civil antitrust litigation. He has extensive experience relating to telecommunications, computer hardware, software, and consumer products. Monty has spearheaded efforts to maximize efficiencies in the Firm's handling of second requests and other substantial electronic discovery projects through the application of advanced software technologies and project management techniques. Along with antitrust, he has worked in related areas of governmental regulation, including electronic surveillance, privacy, the regulation of encryption, and false advertising. As lead counsel, he successfully won dismissal of a civil RICO and Sherman Act complaint filed against the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment. He also served as lead appellate counsel for defendants in CFTC v. R.J. Fitzgerald & Co., a regulatory case involving an allegedly misleading television commercial. Before joining Jones Day, Monty was an associate in the antitrust and appellate practice groups at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He founded The Green Bag: An Entertaining Journal of Law and continues to serve as its executive editor. His published articles include "Policing the Dormant Commerce Clause," Icarus 64 (ABA Antitrust Section, Summer/Fall 2003); "Our First Real War," 2 Green Bag 2d 169 (Winter 1999) (executive war powers in the 1801 war with Tripoli); and "Measuring the Influence of Supreme Court Justices," 27 J. Legal Studies 333 (June 1998). Before attending law school, Monty designed supercomputer software for stealth aircraft design at Lockheed. He also served as vice president of a human resources consulting firm in Kansas City and as a software engineer responsible for designing several Microsoft Windows applications. Monty is chairman of the Federalist Society's Antitrust Subcommittee, a member of the American Bar Association (Antitrust Law Section, Computer Industry & Internet Committee), and a member of Jones Day's E-Discovery Committee.

About the Workshop Sponsors

About Attenex:
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Attenex Corporation develops and markets software to help corporations, law firms, legal service providers and government agencies improve the efficiency of processing and reviewing electronic documents. Attenex software combines patented document analysis and visualization technology with a powerful processing engine to accelerate the identification of relevant information in its native format. Leading legal service providers and consulting organizations offer Attenex software to dramatically reduce the total cost of discovery for their clients. For more information about the company and its products, call (206) 373-6565 or visit www.attenex.com.

About LIT Group:
LIT Group is a technology based professional services company offering a comprehensive array of services for legal information management. Law firms and corporate legal departments nationwide depend on LIT Group for the latest information management strategies to help manage and present their cases effectively. Visit www.litgroup.com.

About Xtalks:
Xtalks (recently featured in the London Times article Conference call that spans the globe: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,16689-1364240,00.html) brings industry experts to executives’ desktops around the world in a web-based information network that provides insight into breaking business issues through interactive digital web conferences. By leveraging the best of hi-speed Internet and telecom technology, Xtalks provides a fantastic forum for highly interactive communication. Xtalks web conferences allow anyone with interest in a particular topic to participate in a web meeting by synchronizing their desktop computer and phone alongside industry experts. Xtalks is part of The Honeycomb Worldwide Group of Companies (www.honeycombworldwide.com), including Honeycomb Connect, a leader in executive networking, event management, web conferencing, publishing, and digital media with offices in North America and Europe.

“Xtalks' webinar brought together the top end users, technology vendors, and thinkers in the space,” says Ed Hess, Editor of Integrated Solutions Magazine, referring to a previous Xtalks’ event. “As a media sponsor of the event, we were ecstatic to see the level of commitment and execution that Xtalks showed in making the event a huge success. It was informative and filled with new and fresh insights. The Q&A session was highly interactive and addressed a range of issues. In terms of online events, it set a standard that others will have trouble matching."

For more information on this conference or Xtalks in general, or to enquire about speaking opportunities or sponsoring future events, visit www.xtalks.com or contact JP Fozo, Group Vice President, Business Development, at phone: 416-977-6555 x291: e-mail e-mail protected from spam bots.

The Use of e-Discovery in Litigation
November 8, 2005 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EDT
•The Honorable John J. Hughes, Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey
•Robert L. Byman, Partner, Jenner & Block
•Montgomery N. Kosma, Attorney, Jones Day
•Joni Miller, from LIT Group
•Kathryn Hardie, from Attenex

Accreditation for CLE Credits in the states of New York, Florida, California, and Texas has been applied for.

Register for free at http://www.xtalks.com/edisc.ashx

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