March 19, 2008     03:00pm - 04:30pm Eastern

During the last decade, the legal community has expended significant energy and focus on electronic data. A main focus has been on whether and under what circumstances a litigant must provide such data - known more formally as electronically stored information or "ESI" - to an adverse party. But as succinctly noted by a federal magistrate judge in a recent landmark decision, "it makes little sense to go to all the bother and expense to get electronic information only to have it excluded from evidence or rejected from consideration during summary judgment because the proponent cannot lay a sufficient foundation to get it admitted." Lorraine v. Markel American Ins. Co., 241 F.R.D. 534, 538 (D. Md. 2007). The legal community is beginning to grapple with whether and how ESI, once produced, can actually be authenticated and used as evidence at trial or in motion practice. This month, The Sedona Conference^® Working Group 1 will publish a Commentary on ESI Evidence and Admissibility. The Commentary includes a brief survey of the applicability and application of existing evidentiary rules and case law, addresses new issues and pitfalls that are looming on the horizon, and provides practical guidance on the use of ESI in depositions and in court. This webinar will introduce the Commentary with observations by its editor, Kevin Brady, and three members of the Working Group 1 committee responsible for its drafting. And in the best tradition of The Sedona Conference^®, participants will have an opportunity to engage in dialogue with the authors.

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$79 Working Group Members of The Sedona Conference^®

$99 General Public

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