The Northern Kentucky Law Review at the
Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law will host its Spring Symposium, titled "E-Discovery: Navigating the Changing Ethical and Practical Expectations," on Saturday, Feb. 28, at the
RiverCenter Marriott in Covington (10 W RiverCenter Blvd.) from 8:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
Roland Bernier, an attorney and e-discovery consultant with Forensic Consulting Solutions, LLC, will provide an overview of the e-discovery challenges faced by practitioners. Bernier has played an integral part in the development of document review applications and electronic discovery processing platforms.
The symposium will then host a panel discussion on ethical issues in e-discovery featuring Debra Lyn Bassett; Hon. John Carroll; and Gregory Harrison, Esq. Bassett is a professor of law and Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. She has written extensively on procedural issues in the federal courts.
Carroll is a former United States magistrate judge and current dean of Cumberland Law School at Samford University.
He is a frequent lecturer and panel participant on the issue of electronically stored information and discovery. Harrison is a partner at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP in Cincinnati. He has extensive litigation and electronic discovery experience, and has served as counsel for, among others, the Microsoft Corporation. The panel will be moderated by Jennifer Anglim Kreder, associate professor of law at Chase.
The symposium will conclude with a panel discussion of best practices in e-discovery featuring Thomas Allman, Esq.; Steven Bennett, Esq; Professor Steven Gensler; and Hon. Robert Wier.
Allman is an attorney and consultant who was an early advocate of the need for e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and currently co-chairs the Steering Committee of the Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Discovery and Document Production. Bennett is a partner at Jones Day in New York. He chairs the firm's E-Discovery Committee and is a founding member of the Sedona Conference Working Group on International E-Discovery. Gensler is a presidential professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
He has served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Judge Wier is a magistrate judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky. In that capacity, he has dealt extensively with e-discovery issues. The panel will be moderated by Richard Bales, associate dean and professor of law at Chase.
The event is free and open to the public. Breakfast will be served. To register, send your name, address and telephone number to
ediscoverey.chase@gmail.com. There will be 2.5 hours of CLE credit available for Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, including one hour of ethics credit.
