West Virginia (WV) Technology CLE Course Catalog

A growing challenge is how to manage chat discussions, both in eDiscovery and Information Governance. In this moderated panel session, our experts will delve into issues of ingestion, retention, permissions, and collaboratively discuss the solution paths to the question of what to do with chat in eDiscovery and Information Governance.

As more and more clients continue to request for law firms to introduce new tools and technologies to improve legal services, law firms are being forced to really consider which tools are not only fitting to their organization but also a differentiator for existing and future clients. Join this session as our experts consider what clients are most commonly requesting, share insights into tools and technologies they introduced or created, and provide an overview of the issues and successes they’ve seen along the way.

Data has never been more intimidating: Slack attacks, Zoom booms, short format and continual messaging, and more apps that you can count. A tsunami of new and emerging data sources – ones that don’t work when handled as a traditional document – is crashing down on us. Learn how our panelists not just survive but thrive working with data like Slack, Teams, Zoom, WhatsApp, social media, and more.

If you thought the rise of the Internet and services like Napster pushed the boundaries of the law, you ain’t seen nothing yet until you’ve seen artificial intelligence (“AI”). Experienced intellectual property lawyer Peter Afrasiabi provides an overview of AI.

In this session, you’ll hear from experts and peers with hands-on experience using contract AI to solve for compliance challenges.

Law firms on the cutting edge of combining internal law firm data with public datasets will describe their use cases and share their secrets for improving substantive work-product and developing new business. We’ll discuss how firms have married state and federal litigation dockets, patent and trademark prosecution dockets, new lawsuit feeds, and public and private data on deals (e.g., M&A) — all to build workflows for: (1) analytics and research (2) better RFPs, (3) experience databases, and (4) user-driven development.

As organizations generate and store increasing volumes of personal and sensitive data they are becoming an ever greater target for cybercriminals wanting to extort data for financial gain. The risk of getting it wrong has never been so high. Listen to our panel of experts discuss the threat & regulatory landscape, considerations in breach response, and the opportunity to go from head-ache to head-start.

In this session, we will discuss the importance of data growth and how data flows within organizations and what you can do to build good governance while protecting critical and valuable assets.

Monitoring metrics and analyzing data are important ways to ensure litigation support departments are operating as effectively as possible. Join us as we discuss the value of leveraging technology to monitor your team’s performance. Learn how to identify which metrics to track to better understand how your department is operating. Our panel will highlight practical ways to make process changes that will improve communication and outcomes within and across teams.