The International Litigation Support Leaders Conference: an introduction

The International Litigation Support Leaders Conference starts tomorrow in D.C. for two days, May 7-8, here in D.C.  It is the industry’s premiere educational and networking event for international litigation support.  We are covering both days of the event and attending the seminars and speaking with all the vendors.

As we have indicated there has been an explosion of litigation support/e-discovery work in Europe and Asia.  In fact, The Posse List has been invited to join a trade delegation to China at the end of the month and we’ll give you all the details next week in a special post along with information on jobs for e-discovery attorneys in Europe and Asia. 

This week’s D.C. conference event has a “who’s who” of speakers in the litigation support/e-discovery universe including but not limited to:  Craig Ball, Ralph Losey of Akerman Senterfitt, Mary Mack of Fios, Browning Marean of DLA Piper, George Socha of Socha Consulting LLC, Mary Pat Poteet of DLA Piper, David Cowen of the The Cowen Group, Albert J. Buckwalter, Michael Dalewitz of Peak Discovery, John Tredennick of Catalyst, and Laura Kibbe of Epiq Systems.

And there is the roster of the leading vendors including but not limited to:  Autonomy, Catalyst Repository, ePIC, Epiq Ssystems, Fios Inc., FTI Consulting, interLegis, LexisNexis,  etc.

There are specialized sessions covering best practices in key litigation support areas including:

• Document Discovery
• E-Discovery Collection/Processing/Review
• E-Discovery Analysis and Production
• Document Processing/Data Processing
• Attorney Support
• Trial Support and Presentation
• Project Management
• Career and Professional Development
• Ethics
• Deposition Management
• Record Retention/Data Archiving
• Database Management
• Internal/External Marketing
• International Litigation Support
• Outsourcing
• Vendor Management
• Litigation Readiness
• Department Development
• Legal Holds 

We are going to try and cover it all and meet with as many speakers and vendors as we can.  We’ll make reports over the two days, plus a “wrap-up” report over the weekend. 

Our focus will be “what information, contacts and material can we provide contract attorneys to make them more marketable” and “what job opportunities are there in the industry”.  But as our membership base has grown to also include law firms, in-house legal departments, bar associations, e-discovery companies, etc. we will also try and cover issues and aspects that affect them.

And as a further note to our European membership base: we have been invited to cover the Sedona Conference in Barcelona, Spain in June (click here) where many of the same vendors are presenting.  We’ll have a more detailed “Euro view” after that conference.