E-Discovery: What You Should Know

This presentation will offer a general overview and introduction to E-discovery, with particular attention to the changing roles of paralegals in this area. The material will cover what paralegals need to know about developing standards for retaining and preserving e-mail, and will cover the relationship of e-mail and attorney-client privilege. The presentation will deal with document production in electronic format, and a number of cases dealing with this issue and new technology will be reviewed.

What past participants have said:

Tips to keep document collection organized were useful. As an in-house corporate paralegal, it gave me insight as to what is useful to our outside counsel.

Dorothe J. Howell, ACP, has been a paralegal for approximately 15 years, and has worked in firms varying from solo practitioners to international law firms. She concentrates on document-intensive matters and has extensive experience in the collection and production of electronic documents as well as trial experience in document intensive matters. She has worked in the areas of commercial real estate, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and complex commercial litigation. She is NALA Liaison and a past president of the Baltimore City Paralegal Association, serves on NALA’s Board as Region II Director, and is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association and its Special Committee on Paralegals.

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