Recent court decisions imposing sanctions and holding both in-house and outside counsel responsible for poor electronic discovery practices make clear that all lawyers need to understand the basics of electronic discovery, or at least know when and how to engage colleagues, litigation support teams and service providers who are experts in the field. Complicating this challenge is the fact that many businesses have an international presence and have offices and employees scattered across the globe. With the increasing global reach of business and economic activity, the incidence of cross-border and multi-language litigation is rapidly increasing. And countries in Europe, Asia and elsewhere around the world have much more strict data privacy laws than the United States that affect how electronic information can be discovered.
This CLE course presented by Jeff Jacobs, Associate General Counsel for DTI, will address how to resolve some of the discovery challenges involved in cross-border and multi-language litigation. The main topics discussed in the course include dealing with non-U.S data privacy laws & regulations, cross-border legal considerations, international collection strategies, using technology to lower the cost & risk of foreign language review and resolving cultural & foreign language issues that may arise in the course of conducting cross-border discovery. Mr. Jacobs also addresses discovery versus privacy around the world, global approaches to personal privacy, EU data privacy developments, the Sedona framework, jurisdiction, blocking statutes, international data privacy laws, EU members state penalties, Hague evidence collection, resolving international disputes, collecting international information, language identification, special handling for Asian, European and Arabic languages, review strategies and the form of production.
Jeff Jacobs is the General Counsel and Senior Consultant for DTI. For the past five years he has advised clients on litigation readiness, email & records retention and the planning & execution of electronic discovery matters. Prior to joining DTI, Jeff spent seven years as an Associate Litigation Counsel at MCI/WorldCom, where he managed the electronic discovery associated with the government investigations of the WorldCom accounting fraud, related securities class actions and other litigation and the acquisition of MCI by Verizon. He also served as counsel to the company?s Records and Information Management group and managed the subpoena compliance unit. Before MCI, he was a Special Counsel in the litigation group of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Washington, DC office. Jeff is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Chicago Law School and was in the first class of candidates to qualify as a certified electronic discovery specialist by the Association of Electronic Discovery Specialists (ACEDS).