ACEDS

ACEDS NY Metro Chapter Meeting
2021-10-28 16:00 - 17:00 UTC
Cast your vote for the ACEDS NY Metro Chapter board

Vote on this year’s chapter board nominees, and share your ideas for the coming year! Afterwards, there will be a Zoom discussion on Transitioning to Life After the Pandemic where we will discuss what permanent changes will be a part of our daily work tasks.

Moving Forward: A Secure, Productive, and Mobile Work Experience
2021-03-04 16:00 - 17:00
Join the ACEDS NY Metro Chapter for a panel discussion

Join us for an interactive panel discussion with Kraft Kennedy CTO Chris Owens, covering these topics + the questions you bring to the virtual table:

“War stories” from the 2020 remote landscape
The real reasons behind the things your IT department makes you do
Next Level Remote: more access, collaboration, and productivity
“What” – The Most Expensive Word in Business

GIVEAWAY: To preselect the desired device giveaways for this event, and to enable us to customize the session content, advance participation via this survey is requested.
Moderator:

Ignatius Grande, Director at BRG

Presenters:

James Sherer, Partner at Baker & Hostetler
Ariel Risinger, Legal Counsel, Technology and Commercial Transactions at AXA XL, a division of AXA
Christina Brodeur, Vice President, CRE Credit Portfolio Manager at Investors Bank
Connor McCourt, Enterprise Sales at EPOS
Christopher Owens, Chief Technology Officer at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.

Enduring Impact of Covid on Managed Document Review
2020-12-03 11:00 - 12:00
Join the ACEDS NY Metro Chapter for an E-Discovery Day event

In this webinar, panelists will discuss

What remote review looks like from a security perspective (what tools are available, what to look out for)
Partnership between law firm, client, hosting provider and review provider
What reviewer training looks like remotely
What Review Management looks like remotely (how to track productivity, security, etc.)
Lessons learned so far (Integreon can integrate responses from several of our corporate and law firm clients)

Moderator:

Deeanna Fleener joined Integreon in March 2020 as Director of Litigation Services. As a subject matter expert, Deeanna has deep knowledge and expertise having worked in the technology industry for over 20 years. Prior to joining Integreon, Deeanna spent over 15 years working in litigation support within large law firms and global eDiscovery service providers. She spent a decade working in Litigation/Practice Support within law firms where she managed large, complex cases using advanced analytics and all technology options available to her. Most recently, Deeanna has consulted with corporations and law firms to create workflows designed to save time and money. Deeanna is a self-proclaimed technology geek whose goal is to help attorneys realize the efficiencies and competitive edge that come with fully utilizing the technology tools available today. Deeanna founded the Boston chapter of Women in eDiscovery and attends many events with ILTA, ACEDS, WiE, EDRM, and Sedona Conference, and has had speaking engagements at WiE, SOLID, Ing3nious eDiscovery and IG Retreat, and Boston Bar Association.

Presenters:

Brad Schaffel is the Manager of Electronic Discovery and Litigation Support at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. Mr. Schaffel has held this position since November, 2017. He has over 27 years of experience in various levels of project management in the legal space. Tasked with creating a team of experienced professionals, Brad has been successful in building departments of top-tier individuals who can act as in-house legal technology consultants as well as excellent project managers and technicians. He continuously strives to improve automation and workflow; keeping up with the growing size and complexity of discovery requests is an on-going challenge that requires constant attention.

For many years, Mr. Schaffel has served on industry panels and has been involved in e-discovery education and mentorship. He has been an adjunct professor of eDiscovery and a member of numerous professional associations. Most recently, Brad has been involved with developing distance learning programs on eDiscovery best practices and general knowledge for numerous top-tier law schools. Brad has also hosted podcasts on the topic of eDiscovery, Information Governance, and Litigation Support. Aimed at not only sharing insights from industry powerhouses, the podcasts focused on what it’s like to work in the profession from the perspective of service providers, lawyers, and lit support project managers. Mr. Schaffel is a member of the Charter Class of Certified E-Discovery Specialists and previously served as Vice-President for the ACEDS NY Metro Chapter Board.
Outside of his day job, Brad spends most of his time with family. He is married with two children and lives in Brooklyn. He is an avid hiker particularly in the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks

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The State of the eDiscovery Market
2020-12-01 13:00 - 14:00
Join the ACEDS New York Metro Chapter for a panel discussion

Join Ari Kaplan, Mallory Acheson, Joseph Borstein and Kimberly “KQ” Quan for a panel discussion on the state of the eDiscovery market.

AI Series - Part IV: The Process of Innovation in the Legal Tech Space
2020-11-25 13:00 - 14:00
Join the ACEDS NY Metro Chapter for a panel discussion.

Each of our three panelists have co-founded a legal tech company. They come from very different backgrounds and have employed very different approaches in solving problems. One is an Amlaw 50, Harvard law grad type. Another has a Carnegie Mellon masters in computer science with an emphasis on NLP and ML. A third is a learn it on the fly, experienced, ACEDS certified eDiscovery specialist. They will discuss the problems they identified, how they tried to solve them, the technologies they used, how they built their solution and how one can reasonably divine quality in their spaces.
Moderator:

Harry Buck, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Legal Outsourcing 2.0
Harry Buck is the Founder and CEO of Legal Outsourcing 2.0 www.legaloutsourcing2.com . Legal Outsourcing 2.0 helps legal technology companies create their solutions and uses legal technology solutions to deliver value to corporate and law firm clients. Harry practiced law for 15 years, mostly as a litigator. During that time, he was twice elected as a State Bar Commissioner and elected as a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. For the past 20 years he has been involved in legal technology and legal outsourcing. He received his BA from Brown University and his JD from Pace University Law School. He is a Board Member of the NY Metro Chapter of ACEDS.

Speakers:
John Snyder, Chairman, Agnes Intelligence
John Snyder is a Co-Founder of Agnes Intelligence www.agnesintel.com and currently serves as its Chairman. He graduated from Brown as an undergraduate and Harvard Law School. He clerked for a Federal District Court Judge and spent six years as an associate at Proskauer Rose. He has practiced in Manhattan since 2010 representing technology focused clients. In 2016, he was rated a top 40 under 40 litigator in New York, and since 2017 he has been honored as a “Top 100” Litigation Lawyer in the State of New York.
He founded Agnes Intelligence in 2018 which has created an AI-enabled business and forensics platform for hosting and analyzing big data. It is particularly effective for non-traditional, i.e. audio and visual, media.

Lars Mahler, Chief Science Officer, LegalSifter
Lars Mahler is a Co-Founder of LegalSifter www.legalsifter.com and serves as its Chief Science Officer. Lars received his undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan and a master’s in computer science with a specialization in machine learning and natural language processing from Carnegie Mellon. Lars worked as a manager at Accenture before his graduate work and helped found LegalSifter while he was still in grad school in 2014.
Lars has overseen the development of over 700 algorithms designed to identify legal concepts in unstructured data, such as contracts. LegalSifter offers two products. Its first product (called LegalSifter) uses AI to help clients review and negotiate contracts. Its second product (called Sifter Concierge) is a contract librarian service that organizes and catalogs signed contracts.

Oran Sears, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Canopy
Oran Sears is a Co-Founder of Canopy www.canopyco.io and serves as its Chief Product and Technology Officer. Oran is ACEDS certified and is also certified in cyber investigations and counterintelligence threat analysis. He has spent about 15 years in the software industry much of which involved software solutions in the eDiscovery space. Prior to cofounding Canopy, Oran had a similar role with ZyLAB where he was Director of Sales Engineering and US Product Management.
Oran has overseen the development of not only a tool, but in some ways a new field, protected data discovery. Canopy is specifically designed for data breach discovery including cyber security investigations, analysis and notification reviews. It creates efficiencies by using NLP and ML technology.

AI Series - Part III: Practical Considerations for eDiscovery Practitioners
2020-11-18 13:00 - 14:00
Join the ACEDS NY Metro Chapter for a Panel Discussion.

Join the managers leading TAR and analytics teams at Hogan Lovells, Orrick and Paul Weiss for a discussion on practical applications of machine learning technologies for eDiscovery and investigations. They’ll explain why using AI/TAR/analytics on real cases isn’t nearly as complicated as many believe, how to implement the solutions that make sense for your case, and what key factors should inform your decision-making on how to deploy these technologies.
Moderator:

Lilith Bat-Leah, CEDS, Senior Director of Data Science, FRONTEO
Lilith Bat-Leah, CEDS, is a senior director of data science at FRONTEO, a publicly traded global technology and services company specializing in artificial intelligence, cross-border litigation, managed review, and consulting for the eDiscovery market. She has extensive experience managing, delivering and consulting on electronic discovery, including meet and confer, identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, analysis, and production of electronically stored information. She regularly participates in negotiations around electronic discovery and has provided expert testimony in both domestic and international court proceedings. Ms. Bat-Leah now specializes in the application of statistics, analytics, machine learning and data science within the context of electronic discovery. She writes and speaks on varied topics, including ESI protocols, statistical sampling, and technology assisted review. Ms. Bat-Leah currently serves on the EDRM Advisory Council and the ACEDS New York Chapter board. She is a member of Sedona Conference Working Groups 1 and 6, and was a founding board member of the ACEDS Chicago Chapter. Lilith graduated from Northwestern University magna cum laude and has been CEDS certified since 2015.

Speakers:
Jeremiah Weasenforth, Managing Project Attorney, Orrick
Jeremiah Weasenforth is the Managing Project Attorney in the Orrick Analytics group. Jeremiah manages a team of attorneys and technical non-attorneys that utilize technology and project management discipline to assist with litigation and transactional tasks. Jeremiah’s focus is bringing efficiency to all aspects of such tasks through the use of technology and sound process.
Jeremiah develops and implements workflows around the use of artificial intelligence, advanced analytics and machine learning by assessing case goals and strategy. This includes implementing a broad array of tools designed to achieve cost savings for clients, including predictive analytics, structured analytics, sentiment analysis, and concept analysis technology. Jeremiah has significant experience managing discovery tasks from early case assessment through trial. Jeremiah regularly consults with Orrick attorneys and clients on complex data issues in discovery.
Jeremiah writes and frequently speaks on the use of advanced analytics, including the challenges associated with unique aspects of litigation.

Lindsey Worth, Manager of TAR & Analytics, Americas, Hogan Lovells
Lindsey Worth is the Manager of TAR & Analytics, Americas, for Hogan Lovells. She manages Hogan’s eDiscovery project managers and consultants in the Americas and advises clients on advanced technology and workflow design. Lindsey is a former litigator experienced in leading discovery teams in complex, document-intensive matters. Since turning to eDiscovery consulting, she specializes in advising clients on how to leverage machine learning and analytics. She has defended her clients’ TAR and discovery workflows in deposition, via affidavit, and in mediation before the court.
Lindsey is a former Rhodes Scholar with degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Yale Law School and is admitted to the bar in California. She also serves as a board member for the NYC chapter of Leading Women in Technology.

Justin Turnofsky, Manager of E-Discovery Review Technology, Paul, Weiss
Justin is Paul, Weiss’ Manager of E-Discovery Review Technology and a founding member of their E-Discovery Analytics and Review Technology team. In his role, Justin counsels legal teams and corporate clients on the most proficient and defensible uses of advanced technologies and analytics to improve efficiency and identify critical documents earlier in the process. As a Relativity and Brainspace Certified Master, Justin develops and presents CLE trainings and certification programs for the firm’s personnel.

AI Series - Part II: Soft Law, Ethics and Standards
2020-11-11 13:00 - 14:00
Join the ACEDS NY Metro Chapter for a panel discussion

This session will focus on ISO and IEEE standards/regulations for AI. It also intersects with concerns regarding racial justice and discrimination issues associated with technology, which highlights transparency/translucency issues also being addressed by standard-setting bodies.
Moderator:

Ignatius Grande, Director, Berkeley Research Group
Ignatius Grande is a Director at Berkeley Research Group. He has been advising clients on issues relating to electronic discovery, information management, and data privacy for more than 15 years. With his legal and technical expertise, Ignatius is able to bridge the gap that can exist between IT and legal/compliance personnel. Ignatius often works with companies to address complex information management issues, including the onboarding of new software and the implementation of advanced technologies. He has performed compliance risk assessments for corporations addressing information management practices and he regularly works with clients to implement or update corporate policies.
Ignatius is a frequent writer and speaker on topics relating to information governance, artificial intelligence, and data privacy. He is president of the New York Metro ACEDS Chapter and is the Vice Chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Commercial & Federal Litigation Section. Ignatius also teaches a course at St. John’s University School of Law. Ignatius has worked for two global law firms and has also served as in-house counsel for a global commodities trading company. He graduated from Yale College in 1996 and Georgetown University Law Center in 1999.

Speakers:
Meribeth Banaschik, Partner, Ernst & Young
As an American litigator and Solicitor of England & Wales with more than 14 years of professional experience, including ten years’ experience in Germany, Meribeth Banaschik is focused on analytics and applied technologies to isolate and address various risks facing modern global organizations, particularly legal risks.
She focuses on the measurement and quality imperatives that impact defensibility and acceptance of technology and technology-driven results in a legal/investigative context.
In addition to leading the German eDiscovery practice, she is also responsible within Forensics for GDPR compliance projects. She therefore has relevant project experience in establishing GDPR compliance teams in Germany and EMEIA.
After receiving her MBA and training as a lawyer in the USA, Meribeth worked as a litigator in the US, as in- house counsel at a German bank, and then moved back to private practice at a top German law firm, before moving to EY in March 2017.

Yohance Bowden, Attorney, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Yohance Bowden is an attorney at New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority with a background in litigation. In addition to his administrative law practice, Yohance has significant experience leveraging emerging technologies for clients in the pharmaceutical and energy industries in products liability and environmental matters. His practice includes Freedom of Information law, litigation in federal and state courts, electronic discovery and information governance matters. Yohance has developed a particular expertise in cross-border discovery issues, including data protection in the European Union. He has worked extensively with international clients on litigations across the globe.

Cat Casey, Chief Innovation Officer, DISCO
Cat Casey is the Chief Innovation Officer for DISCO, the leading cloud-based AI-powered legal technology company, where she spearheads development and strategy for its advanced legal technology solutions. She is a frequent keynote speaker and outspoken advocate of legal professionals embracing technology to deliver better legal outcomes. Casey has over a decade and a half of experience assisting clients with complex ediscovery and forensic needs that arise from litigation, expansive regulation, and complex contractual relationships.
Before joining DISCO, Casey was the director of Global Practice Support for Gibson Dunn, based out of their New York office. She led a global team comprising experienced practitioners in the areas of electronic discovery, data privacy, and information governance. Prior to that, Casey was a leader in the Forensic Technology Practice for PwC. Prior to that Casey built out the antitrust forensic technology practice and served as the national subject matter expert on ediscovery for KPMG. Casey has an A.L.B. from Harvard University and attended Pepperdine School of Law.

James A. Sherer, Partner, BakerHostetler
James Sherer is a Partner in the New York office of BakerHostetler, where he co-leads the Emerging Technology team for the Digital Assets and Data Management group and leads Information Governance and Artificial Intelligence engagements. James also serves as the co-leader of The Sedona Conference® Working Group Eleven Drafting Team on Ethics in AI and Algorithmic Design and is part of the IEEE P2863 Organizational Governance of Artificial Intelligence Working Group. James’s work and scholarship focuses on litigation; discovery management processes; enterprise risk; records and information governance; data privacy, security, and bank secrecy; technology integration issues; artificial intelligence; social media and the Internet of Things, and related merger and acquisition diligence.
James holds an MBA, the CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP, and PLS data privacy professional credentials, the CIP and IGP information governance designations, the UCLA Extension Global Cyber Institute’s Cybersecurity Certification, and the CEDS and eDPC eDiscovery specialist credentials. James is U.S. and Global Chambers® Ranked for eDiscovery, a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and serves as a member of The Sedona Conference® Working Groups One, Six, and Eleven. He is also a member of the New York State Bar Association eDiscovery Committee as well as the New York eDiscovery Counsel Roundtable. James serves as an elected board member for the New York Chapter of ACEDS, the Stecher & Horowitz Foundation, and the Michigan-based Cleveland Manor Community. He is admitted to practice in New York, Washington DC, and Michigan.

AI Series - Part I: Introduction to Machine Learning
2020-10-29 13:00 - 14:00
Join the ACEDS NY Metro Chapter for a panel discussion on machine learning.

Join data scientists from Brainspace, FRONTEO, NexLP and OpenText for an introduction to the technology that powers TAR and AI. We’ll give a non-technical overview of how the technology works and how that might inform your workflows.
Moderator:
Lilith Bat-Leah, Senior Director of Data Science, FRONTEO USA
Lilith Bat-Leah, CEDS, is a senior director of data science at FRONTEO, a publicly traded global technology and services company specializing in artificial intelligence, cross-border litigation, managed review, and consulting for the eDiscovery market. She has extensive experience managing, delivering and consulting on electronic discovery, including meet and confer, identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, analysis, and production of electronically stored information. She regularly participates in negotiations around electronic discovery and has provided expert testimony in both domestic and international court proceedings. Ms. Bat-Leah now specializes in the application of statistics, analytics, machine learning and data science within the context of electronic discovery. She writes and speaks on varied topics, including ESI protocols, statistical sampling, and technology assisted review. Ms. Bat-Leah currently serves on the EDRM Advisory Council and the ACEDS New York Chapter board. She is a member of Sedona Conference Working Groups 1 and 6, and was a founding board member of the ACEDS Chicago Chapter. Lilith graduated from Northwestern University magna cum laude and has been CEDS certified since 2015.
Speakers:
Dr. Jeremy Pickens, Principal Data Scientist, OpenText
Jeremy Pickens, PhD is one of the world’s leading information retrieval scientists and a pioneer in the field of collaborative exploratory search, a form of information seeking in which a group of people who share a common information need actively collaborate to achieve it. Dr. Pickens has seven patents and patents pending in the field of search and information retrieval. As Principal Data Scientist at OpenText, Dr. Pickens has spearheaded the development of Insight Predict. His ongoing research and development focuses on methods for continuous learning, and the variety of real world technology assisted review workflows that are only possible with this approach. Dr. Pickens earned his doctoral degree at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval. He conducted his post-doctoral work at King’s College, London. Before joining Catalyst Repository Systems and later OpenText, he spent five years as a research scientist at FX Palo Alto Lab, Inc. In addition to his OpenText responsibilities, he continues to organize research workshops and speak at scientific conferences around the world.
Dr. Irina Matveeva, Head of Machine Learning, NexLP
Dr. Irina Matveeva is the Head of Machine Learning at NexLP LLC and Adjunct Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Her research interests include graph-based methods and semi-supervised methods for language applications. Her research focuses on latent semantic models of word and document representations and models of word similarity.
Dr. Matveeva received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She co-chaired the TextGraphs workshops in 2012, 2011, 2008, and 2007, and is a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Journal for Information Retrieval and Journal of Artiﬁcial Intelligence Research.
Dr. David Lewis, Chief Data Scientist, Brainspace
Dr. Lewis brings 30 years of experience designing machine learning and language processing algorithms, dating back to his award-winning dissertation establishing text categorization as a new field of study at the intersection of information retrieval and machine learning. In research at the University of Chicago, Bell Labs, AT&T Labs, and David D. Lewis Consulting, Lewis pioneered many techniques that are now common in text analytics and beyond, including uncertainty sampling, stratified estimation of classification effectiveness, scaling of probabilistic classifier outputs, and high dimensional Bayesian logistic regression. For this work, Lewis was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2006. Since 2000, Lewis has served as an inventor and technology advisor for more than 50 companies and organizations, while continuing to pursue research in computer science. In 2005, Lewis created the first publicly available test collection for e-discovery research (the CDIP or “tobacco” collection), as well as co-founding, with Jason Baron and Doug Oard, the first open evaluation forum for e-discovery research (the TREC Legal Track). Lewis has also served as a consulting expert or expert witness in numerous patent and e-discovery disputes, including the landmark da Silva Moore, Kleen Products, Actos, and Rio Tinto cases. Lewis holds a BA in Mathematics and a BS in Computer Science from Michigan State University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

ACEDS NY Metro Chapter: Advancing Your eDiscovery Career Into Privacy
2020-09-15 11:00 - 12:00
Join the ACEDS NY Metro Chapter for a virtual event.

Thanks to the GDPR, CCPA and the increased focus on data privacy, companies and law firms have been increasingly focused on data privacy compliance.
The event will be a discussion with people who have been able to transition from an eDiscovery role to roles more focused on data privacy. It will be a lively discussion about the journey of these professionals and how they navigated their careers into the privacy field. The panelists will share the practices that worked for them, the benefits of certain certifications, the challenges they faced and how they succeeded in overcoming these challenges. We will also discuss how eDiscovery skills can be practically applied in the data privacy industry and steps that eDiscovery professionals can be taking to expand their expertise.
Speakers:
Jared Coseglia, Founder and CEO, TRU Staffing Partners
Jared Michael Coseglia is the founder and CEO of TRU Staffing Partners, a staffing company representing talent and opportunities in the data privacy, e-discovery, and cybersecurity verticals since 2010. Coseglia has successfully placed over 3000 professionals in full-time and temporary positions at the Fortune 1000, Am Law 200, and throughout the global consultancy, service and software provider community. His ability to identify, deliver, mentor, and help retain talent has given him the privilege of quickly becoming the globally recognized “go-to” individual for hiring managers and job seekers in need of staffing solutions or career guidance and management in legal technology and data protection. Coseglia’s unique style of representation, vast network of relationships, and subject matter expertise has helped earn him and TRU a host of awards including the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America rankings two years in a row, #1043 in 2016 and #1189 in 2017.
Eric Pulsipher, MBA, CEDS, CIPP/E, CIPM, Sr. Systems Analyst – Global Legal Applications, NBCUniversal
Eric Pulsipher, MBA, CEDS, CIPP/E, CIPM, is part of NBCUniversal’s Privacy & Compliance team under NBCUniversal’s Global Legal division. He brings extensive law firm experience to help bring balance to all stakeholders’ requirements – including firms BakerHostetler LLP and Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. Eric is passionate about leveraging relevant data and tech across eDiscovery, data privacy and compliance programs.
Tracy Bordignon, Director, Information Governance, Privacy and Security, FTI Consulting
Tracy Bordignon is a Director with FTI’s Information Governance, Privacy and Security (IGP&S) practice in the Technology segment. She has nine years of experience consulting to corporate and law firm clients with a focus on leveraging technology to develop and improve e-discovery and information governance practices. Tracy has worked with high-profile clients in a wide array of industries, including healthcare, pharmaceutical, media broadcasting, gaming, petroleum, food, finance, manufacturing and technology. Tracy consults clients regarding information governance and data privacy issues including holistic privacy assessments, data remediation, California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), merger integration and Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR). She has successfully managed dozens of domestic and international e-discovery reviews for high profile mergers, litigations and internal investigations. Tracy has substantial experience handling data related to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Personally identifiable information (PII). Tracy has assisted with deposition/interview preparation and identifying key documents within large data sets using analytics.

ACEDS New England & ACEDS NY Metro Chapter Open Discussion and Trivia Event
2020-08-06 16:00 - 17:00
Please join us as we discuss “How to Meet the Reality of an Extended Period of Working from Home and Changed Office Environments.”

Test Event - NY Metro Chapter
2020-05-20 19:00 - 22:00
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2019-07-20 19:00 - 22:00
