Topics in subsequent panels ranged from managing discovery costs to outsourcing EDD projects. Another panel addressed attorney resistance to technology, where LTN board member George Rudoy, global technology manager at Sherman & Sterling, suggested that IT staff keep technology tools as simple as possible: “Arm them with a suite that works together.”

Panelist Gigi Pereira, from the Department of Justice, warned vendors to prepare for the next frontier: audio. Standards for maintaining and searching voicemail, tape recordings, and dictation are necessary and imminent, she predicted.”>