ConferenceCall 2007 08 23

= Ontolog invited Speaker Presentation - Mr. Jason R. Baron - Thu 2007.08.23 =


 * Invited Speakers: Mr. Jason Baron, Director of Litigation for NARA (the US National Archives and Records Administration)


 * Topic: "Lawyers, Language, and Legal Risk: Emerging Issues in E-Discovery"


 * Archive: slides & audio recording of the session (mp3)

Conference Call Details:

 * Date: Thursday, August 23, 2007 
 * Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 7:30pm CEST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
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 * Special appreciation to SusanTurnbull and BobChadduck for introducing us to JasonBaron's wonderful work through the Collaborative Expedition Workshop #63 that they co-organized in July, 2007; and hence, making this event possible.

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * JasonBaron
 * SusanTurnbull
 * BobChadduck (Traveling, but will make an effort to join)
 * PeterYim
 * HerbBasik
 * C. Dennis Ahearn (Lockheed Martin)
 * FabianNeuhaus (NIST)
 * Kevin Haas (IBM, Almaden Service Research)
 * AdamPease
 * PatrickDurusau
 * PatCassidy
 * ChristianeFellbaum
 * DougHolmes
 * Melissa Dicker (Genentech)
 * AdrianWalker
 * KurtConrad
 * LaVern Pritchard (Pritchard Law Webs)
 * ItzhakRoth
 * LisaColvin
 * DeborahMacPherson


 * Others we were expecting who my have joined us after the roll call:
 * Michael Fuller (Exeter Government Services)
 * JackPark
 * ElisaKendall (will have to join in late)
 * DeborahMcGuinness (have conflict, but will try to make this)
 * PatHayes (joining, but will have to leave early due to a conflict)
 * TedGordon
 * Tracey Boylston (LexisNexis)
 * MarcoNeumann
 * Kristi Eckerson (CDC / Northrop Grumman IT)
 * John McGrath (FAST)
 * Fred Banks (Boeing)
 * ChrisMenzel (have conflict, but will attempt to break free and join in)
 * JohnSowa


 * ...(to register for participation, please add your name (plus your affiliation, if you aren't already a member of the community) above, or e-mail  so that we can reserve enough resources to support everyone's participation.)...
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 * Regrets:
 * Kathleen Chapman (Boeing)
 * Todd Schneider (Raytheon)
 * KenBaclawski
 * EMichaelMaximilien
 * MatthewWest

Agenda & Proceedings

 * Mr. Jason Baron, Director of Litigation for NARA (the US National Archives and Records Administration) will be our invited speaker at this session. Mr. Baron will be giving a talk on: "Lawyers, Language, and Legal Risk: Emerging Issues in E-Discovery"


 * [picture of Mr. Jason Baron] http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/JasonBaron_20070823/Baron_200708a.jpg
 * Title: Lawyers, Language, and Legal Risk: Emerging Issues in E-Discovery


 * Abstract: (by JasonBaron)


 * In the United States and around the world, government agencies and corporations are facing increased exposure to litigation, regulatory, and compliance demands involving the preservation of and access to electronically stored information across the enterprise.  The speaker will discuss emerging best practice guidelines in the area of search and information retrieval conducted for litigation purposes, as well as the preliminary results from the first year of an international text retrieval project conducted by NIST.   In doing so, the importance of language in connection with conducting reasonable searches in e-discovery will be highlighted.


 * Session Format and Agenda:
 * this will be virtual session over a phone conference setting, augmented by shared computer screen support
 * 1) The session will start with a brief self-introduction of the attendees (~10 min.)  [We will be skipping this if there are more than 20 participants.]
 * 2) Introduction of the invited speaker by Ms. Susan Turnbull
 * 3) Presentation by our invited speaker Mr. Jason Baron (~60 min.)
 * 4) Q&A and Open discussion (~30 min.) [Kindly identify yourself before speaking.]


 * Bio of Mr. Jason Baron:


 * Jason Baron has served since the year 2000 as Director of Litigation for the National Archives and Records Administration, and is a frequent lecturer and author on the subject of e-recordkeeping and e-discovery. Between 1988 and 1999, Mr. Baron held successive positions as trial attorney and senior counsel in the Civil Division of the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C., where he represented the interests of the U.S. government in a variety of complex lawsuits including involving access to governmental information, including the White House email case, Armstrong v. Executive Office of the President.  Among his publications, he has authored "Toward A Federal Benchmarking Standard For Evaluating Information Retrieval Products Used In E-Discovery," published in the 2005 Sedona Conference Journal (available on Westlaw and Lexis), and is the co-author of an article in the Spring 2007 issue of the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology entitled "Information Inflation: Can The Legal System Adapt?" (available online).   He currently represents NARA on the Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Records Retention and Production, where he co-chairs a special project team on Search and Retrieval Sciences.  He also is a co-coordinator of the National Institute of Standards and Technology TREC (Text Retrieval Conference) legal track, a multi-year project devoted to evaluating search issues in a legal context.   Mr. Baron has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia, an Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland's graduate College of Information Studies.  He also presently serves on the Georgetown University Law Center Advanced E-discovery Institute advisory board.  Mr. Baron received his degrees from Wesleyan University and the Boston University School of Law.


 * Mr. Baron's prepared slides can be accessed by pointing your web browsers to:
 * http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/JasonBaron_20070823/Lawyers-Language-LegalRisk--Issues-in-E-Discovery--JasonBaron_20070823.ppt
 * links to additional relevant resources:
 * a worldwide public draft of the Sedona Best Practices Commentary on the Use of Search and Information Retrieval Methods in E-discovery has now been posted on the Sedona website, http://www.thesedonaconference.org (click on publications, go to one of the listed 8/07 documents). A number of other recent publications are also available on the same web page that may be of interest. --JasonBaron/2007.09.14
 * Any material outside of the prepared presentation, if they are called up during the session, may be shared under the VNC session detailed above

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 * Session ended 2007.08.23 12:22 pm PDT

Session Recording of this Panel Session

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 * Conference Date and Time:	23-Aug-2007 10:38am~12:22pm Pacific Daylight Time
 * Duration of Recording:	1 Hour 40 Minutes
 * Recording File Size:	       11.4 MB (in mp3 format)
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 * Conference ID: 5823120#
 * Recording Reference Number:	109434#
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