The Legal Technology Professionals Institute (LTPI) is a non-profit trade association created for and by legal tech professionals to develop and maintain best practices, forums, guidelines, resources and standards in legal technology. LTPI members are from all segments of the legal technology industry, including providers and consumers of technology.

Eric Mandel, the national e-discovery counsel at Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason and LTPI director, and Kevin Clark, senior vice president of consulting at e-discovery service provider Compliance Discovery Solutions and LTPI member, said the group had been percolating for some time. LTPI is an association that will talk less and do more, said Mandel; do more to develop practical operating materials, such as best practices, guidelines and standards, from existing theory and rules.

Mandel, who is also a member of the Steering Committee of The Sedona Conference, Working Group 1, and a former member of the advisory board of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, is well acquainted with the legal theory. Mandel said what Sedona is missing is how to apply legal theory to “day-to-day operations,” an opportunity that LTPI will seek to fulfill. Mandel joins Quin Gregor, COO and CIO at OrcaTec, on the LTPI board of directors and other LTPI directors who are also Sedona participants: Bob Rohlf, e-discovery process strategist at Exterro Inc.; Chris Paskach, managing director of disputes, claims and investigations analytics at The Claro Group; and Dera Nevin, director of e-discovery services at Proskauer Rose.