You’re involved in international litigation representing a local company that sold high tech electronic equipment to an English firm. As soon as discovery starts, the English company claims that four key employees no longer work at the company and they can’t locate their smartphones, laptops and other company devices. With the help of your expert, you eventually realize that all four people are still employed at the company and you get a termination order from the judge due to their dishonesty.
ESI – Discovery & Sanctions
Julie Thorpe-Lopez was not an expert on eDiscovery when the case began – and she wasn’t an expert when it finished either. But she was savvy enough to “know what she didn’t know.” With the help of eDiscovery expert Ryan Maxwell, she was able to leverage an incredibly favorable outcome for client in what looked like a losing case.
In this CLE course, Julie Lopez and Ryan Maxwell will detail how to obtain ESI in eDiscovery and how to avoid sanctions when producing ESI. Julie and Ryan will mainly discuss the attorney’s duty to preserve ESI, ESI best practices and sanctions for failing to properly handle electronically stored information. To access this course please click here: ESI Basics: Avoiding and Obtaining Discovery Sanctions.
Julie and Ryan will also discuss:
- Scoping
- Documentation
- Defensible collection
- Potential testimony
- The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM)
- Questionnaires/interviews
- Data sources
- Metadata
- File systems
- Defensible discovery
- Motions to compel
- Motions for sanctions
- Using a discovery referee
- Hiding electronic evidence
Julie Thorpe-Lopez is a Partner with Tatro & Lopez, LLP, and mainly represents clients who’ve suffered personal injury as a result of motor vehicle collisions, elder abuse and medical malpractice. Ryan Maxwell directs Epiq’s team of computer forensics analysts in southern California and manages the purpose-built computer forensics laboratory which he designed and established.
This CLE course is offered in the following states:
- Alaska (AK)
- Arizona (AZ)
- California (CA)
- Connecticut (CT)
- District of Columbia (DC)
- Illinois (IL)
- Maryland (MD)
- Massachusetts (MA)
- Michigan (MI)
- Missouri (MO)
- New Hampshire (NH)
- New Jersey (NJ)
- New York (NY)
- North Dakota (ND)
- Pennsylvania (PA)
- South Dakota (SD)
Attorney Credits offers CLE for attorneys in California and around the country. For more information about CLE in California please click the following link: CA CLE.