EDRM Leaders to Discuss E-Discovery Maturity Self-Assessment Test at ACEDS Annual Conference

EDRM\r\n\r\nSt. Paul, Minnesota – September 28, 2015 – EDRM, the leading standards organization for the e-discovery market, announced today that Tiana Van Dyk, Litigation Support Manager at Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP, and Evan Benjamin, Litigation Support Consultant & Relativity Trainer at Pepper Hamilton LLP, will speak at an EDRM panel discussion led by George Socha, EDRM co-founder and president of Socha Consulting, at the ACEDS 6th Annual E-Discovery Conference & Exhibition, September 28-30 at the Gaylord National Resort in National Harbor/Washington DC.\r\n\r\nThe EDRM session will focus on “The EDRM eMSAT – eDiscovery Maturity Self-Assessment Test”. The eMSAT-1 is an Excel spreadsheet model designed to help assess the level of eDiscovery maturity for an organization. The assessment test uses five levels to help assess eDiscovery maturity: No Process, Reactive; Fragmented Process; Standardized Process, Not Enforced; Standardized Process, Enforced; and Actively Managed Process, Proactive.  The panel includes creators of the EDRM eDiscovery Maturity Self-Assessment Test (eMSAT-1), who will discuss the eMSAT-1 and answer questions.\r\n\r\nIn addition to the EDRM session, George Socha will participate in several other panel sessions during the 3-day conference:\r\n\r\n“The Journey of 1000 Terabytes Begins with a Single Email: A Step-by-Step Guide to Applied Information Governance”. Jeffrey Brandt, Editor of Law Technology Daily Digest will moderate this panel discussion on big data and information governance.\r\n\r\n“Challenging Predictive Coding’s Assumptions, Claims, and Promises”.  A critical look at TAR, its use and its effectiveness – examined from five different perspectives.\r\n\r\n“Found Money: Raising E-Discovery Related Realization Rates“. A panel discussion on financial management through the use of budget calculators, e-discovery codes, weekly PM meetings to keep tasks on track, and tightly managed staffing, forensics, and review.\r\n\r\n“TED-Like Rants: Industry Experts Tell Us What’s On Their Mind. And We All React”. Eight inspired e-discovery thought leaders bring insight, energy and passion to the best five-minute presentations of their lives.\r\n\r\nACEDS 2015 E-Discovery Conference & Exhibition gathers e-discovery professionals from across the spectrum for a unique learning experience. Professionals learn from expert judges, attorneys, CEOs about the hottest topics in e-discovery. Panel topics include information governance, data breach mitigation, e-discovery career challenges, new rules, EDRM and more.  A detailed agenda is available on the conference website.\r\n\r\nAbout EDRM\r\nEDRM creates practical resources to improve e-discovery and information governance. Launched in May 2005, EDRM was established to create standards and guidelines in the e-discovery market. In January 2006, EDRM published the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, followed by additional resources such as IGRM, CARRM and the Talent Task Matrix. Since its launch, EDRM has comprised 331 organizations, including 188 service and software providers, 71 law firms, 53 corporations, eight governmental entities, four industry groups and seven educational institutions involved with e-discovery and information governance.\r\n\r\nContact\r\nTom Gelbmann\r\nEDRM, LLC\r\nPhone: 651-483-0022\r\nEmail: tom@gelbmann.biz

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  • Doug Austin

    Doug Austin is the editor and founder of eDiscovery Today and an EDRM Global Advisory Council Leader. Doug is an established eDiscovery thought leader with over 30 years of experience providing eDiscovery best practices, legal technology consulting and technical project management services to numerous commercial and government clients. Doug has published a daily blog since 2010 and has written numerous articles and white papers. He has received the JD Supra Readers Choice Award as the Top eDiscovery Author for 2017 and 2018 and a JD Supra Readers Choice Award as a Top Cybersecurity Author for 2019.

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