The Organization of Legal Professionals is offering a webinar in September, A Conversation With Laura Zubulake, that looks to be an interesting event.  Details on the webinar and links to registration are below.

Laura A. Zubulake

Zubulake.  If you have been in the legal field for any length of time at all, you know about Zubulake v. UBS, a landmark case. Never before has a decision had as much impact in the world of e-Discovery quite like this one.
 
Now, in this rare but informative session, Laura Zubulake reveals why she sued and what went on before, during and after the case. A plaintiff with hands-on experience guiding trial strategy, she explains cost shifting, the importance of legal concepts (keyword search, scope of duty, trigger dates) why she pursued adverse inference, why they failed and lessons the trial team learned.

Zubulake discloses why she persevered and pursued adverse inference again and the impact at trial. Learn first-hand inside information what went on in trial prep and post discovery events, what events led to victory and what happened when the trial team regrouped.

Did the electronic evidence really make a difference to her case or during trial?  Find out by registering for this inside look at one of the most important cases in discovery in this century.

Sign up for this webinar today!  Don't miss this opportunity to learn the inside secrets of strategy, techniques, problems and successes of the most important case in eDiscovery to date.

When:   September 15, 2010
Time:    10:00 a.m. Pacific
            12:00 p.m. Central
            1:00 p.m  Eastern
            One Hour

Tuition:
Members of The OLP:  Free
Non-Members:  $79.00

To Register: Simply send an e-mail to info@theolp.org.  In the re line, put "Zubulake" and member or non-member. Be sure to send contact information.
 
Non-Members will be invoiced within a few hours of receipt.  All non-members must be paid prior to the webinar.  Login information will be sent 24-48 hours prior to the webinar.

Currently on the EDRM site, they've put up a draft of their EDRM Production Standards for everyone to review and comment. 

Items covered include:

• Native/Near-Native Production
• Image/Native/Near-Native Production
• Image Production
• Custom
• On-line Production
• Quick Guide to Components of Productions A-D
• Pros & Cons for Production A-D
• Metadata Fields

Head on over to the EDRM site and give them your two cents!

The Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules will be presenting the 2010 Civil Litigation Conference at the Duke University School of Law next week, May 10-11.  A full agenda is linked below.  I'm most interested in the Tuesday morning session, E-Discovery: Discussion of the Cost Benefit Analysis of E-Discovery and the Degree to Which the New Rules are Working or Not.  I won't be able to attend, so if you go, take lots of notes on this session and send them my way!

News Release from the US Courts Website:

Access, fairness, cost, and delay in civil litigation in federal court will be the focus of a Conference, May 10-11, 2010, sponsored by the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. The 2010 Civil Litigation Conference at the Duke University School of Law will present new data from several empirical studies on current litigation practice and proposals for improving civil litigation in the federal trial courts. In particular, data on actual litigation costs incurred by law firms and major corporations will be available for careful analysis. The Conference agenda is available here. The Conference will be streamed live over the Judiciary's Newsroom website.

"This Conference hopes to build on the legacy of the 1976 Roscoe Pound Conference and all it contributed to the reform of the administration and delivery of justice in the federal system, as well as on the 1997 Boston College of Law Conference on Discovery" said Judge Mark Kravitz, chair of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. According to Judge Kravitz the cost of civil litigation will be among the topics to be discussed, and how recent Supreme Court decisions in Twombly and Iqbal have focused attention on pleading standards and discovery.

"Much of the data to be presented at the Conference has not been available before," said Judge John G. Koeltl, a Civil Rules Committee member and Conference organizer. "This will be important new information on what is actually happening in different practice areas."

Nearly 200 nationally recognized federal judges, lawyers and professors and others with expertise in civil litigation are expected to attend. Duke University School of Law will host the Conference, which will take place in Room 3041 of the Duke Law School.

The new Federal Rules of Evidence 2010 are available online in pdf form via the Federal Evidence Review website.  To access the rules directly, click here.