COMING IN 2011 FROM THE POSSE LIST: e-discovery law training via Ralph Losey

5 January 2011  – Many legal pundits have repeatedly called for teaching e-discovery at law schools.  No one in the e-discovery world can miss what the digital information revolution has done to dramatically alter the discovery process.  Nobody has beat this drum more loudly than Ralph Losey, a reigning e-discovery guru (click here).

But if you don’t want to wait for your law school  …. or you are well beyond your law school years but need to catch-up on e-discovery … Ralph Losey has come upon the answer.  Ralph is launching a new online mass collaborative e-discovery program and The Posse List is assisting to spearhead the effort.

We are not providing academic credit or certification (but some state CLE accreditation for practicing lawyers may come later; Ralph’s working on it).  The judges’ panel at the recent Georgetown Law Advanced E-Discovery Institute discussed how superfluous subject-matter certification would be.  They preferred well-grounded CLEs and training programs. 

Ralph’s e-Discovery Team program is just that, but it’s online. You study at your own time, your own place, your own pace.  The instruction includes videos from the judges who make the law (including Judge Ron Hedges, Judge Paul Grim, Judge John Facciola, Judge  David Waxse) and the lawyers who write about e-discovery everyday (Craig Ball, Jason R Baron, Steven Gensler, George Socha, Ken Withers) … just to name a few. 

What’s covered?  Everything, from Sedona to the EDRM, and the thoughts and opinions of almost all of the leading industry experts and judges. It is a basic level course, for lawyers and students alike, almost identical to the online course Ralph taught in law school this summer.   

The online course consists of sixty-one classes, called modules, and covers all key topics in electronic discovery law.  Each module takes an average of thirty to forty minutes to complete and has assignments of from one to two hours each, depending on how long the reading and research takes you. In addition, several top e-discovery vendors will soon offer supplemental instructional programs, demos, and exercises designed exclusively for the program. 

And you will have different levels to choose from so that you can elect to have a version with or without an online expert-professor interaction.  Fees will range from zero (the first quarter is free without professor interaction, so that you can try it without risk), to $1,500 for the full program. 

We’ll have a detailed post after the first of year with all the details on the levels and specific costs, the detailed syllabus, how to sign up, the special Posse List registration code, etc.

We hope it has been a good holiday season for all.