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It’s Back: The 4th Annual EDWBA E-discovery Conference

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

Following on the heels of Halloween and Freddy Krueger, the Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association is putting on its annual E-discovery event. On November 15, 2011, Kelly Twigger and Cristina Hernandez will join an esteemed group of presenters at the 4th Annual Electronic Discovery Conference sponsored by the EDWBA, the Milwaukee Bar Association, Marquette Law School, and AIIM Wisconsin. This day-long seminar will begin with an optional primer on e-discovery for those who need to learn the basics, a case law update highlighting the most significant decisions of the already 200 issued in 2011, and a panel on Cost-Effective Electronic Discovery, where we will provide practical suggestions for reigning in costs, negotiating a more limited scope, and shifting costs. Professor Grenig will moderate the panel of Matt Stippich, Shawn Olley of Midwest Legal and eData Services, Kelly Centofani of Centofani Law, and yours truly.

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Happy Halloween from ESI Attorneys

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Forget Freddy Krueger, volumes of email in 10 different locations  is what keeps our clients up at night … another beauty from Case in Point.
Happy Halloween from ESI Attorneys!

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E-discovery Chutes & Ladders: A Comedy

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

The latest offering from Case In Point cartoons is a LOL moment for anyone who has handled e-discovery lately.  This is my favorite cartoon so far in the series.  Hats off to Tom Fishburne and the Case Central team.

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In Email Archiving, Don’t Forget About the Exit Strategy

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

As organizations face hefty price tags to preserve, manage, collect and review email in litigation, many have moved to try to lessen the load by signing up for email archiving.  For those of you unfamiliar with email archiving, the concept is simple — technology attached to the organization’s email system keeps a copy of every incoming and outgoing message for each user on the system.
If an organization has 10,000 employees, every single email coming and going from each of those 10,000 employees is collected every single day, regardless of whether the content is spam (and why wouldn’t we want to [...]

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Social Media is Everywhere

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

The latest cartoon from Case In Point really drives home the reality of social media and its effect on the legal process.

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Active vs. Forensic Images in E-discovery — The Difference Could Mean Spoliation.

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Understanding the difference between an active image of a hard drive vs. a forensic image is crucial in preservation and collection for e-discovery. With all of the advancements in technology and the expanding use of cloud computing, most organizations still allow, and even encourage, users to store information on their hard drives.  That means that information contained on hard drives must be preserved for e-discovery purposes once custodians and types of ESI have been identified.

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ESI Attorneys Welcomes Cristina Hernandez to the Firm!

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

ESI Attorneys is proud to announce that Cristina Hernandez has joined the firm. Cristina brings a broad range of experience in litigation and e-discovery to draw from in her new role representing the firm’s clients as e-discovery counsel and acting as a special master for discovery disputes.

Cristina comes to ESI Attorneys from the national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP where she was a partner in the commercial litigation group for the last 10 years and worked with her clients as lead defense counsel in federal and state securities class actions, securities and antitrust investigations, and pre- and post-merger disputes.

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You Won’t Want to Miss the Mile High ARMA chapter Spring Seminar

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

I am honored to lead an All-Star cast in Denver for a hands on seminar designed to show attendees how the day-to-day of information management plays out in litigation through e-discovery.   The event, which takes place on Tuesday April 19, 2011 from 7:30 am to 4pm at the Summit Event and Conference Center in Aurora, will highlight the ficticious case of Digital Candy vs. Samantha Grey and Sam I Am.  Members of the Mile High ARMA chapter will star as witnesses to bring the facts to light all culminating in an argument before Federal Magistrate Judge Craig Shaffer of the [...]

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Meet ESI Attorneys: Kelly Twigger

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Kelly Twigger is the founder and owner of ESI Attorneys. She is also a frequent speaker on e-discovery issues and social media and a guest lecturer at Marquette University Law School.

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Join ESI Attorneys for a Webinar on Building and Using an ESI Data Map

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Join us for the latest webinar on ESI Data Mapping — Building and Using the ESI data map. This free webinar, to be held this Wednesday, July 28th at noon to 1pm EST, will feature Kelly Twigger and John Collins discussing how to build and use an ESI data map as part of the process to make ediscovery more efficient and effective for your organization.

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