The first half of 2022 has been another active period in the law of data discovery. In April, the European Commission submitted its proposed Artificial Intelligence Act for the European Union, while international data issues, proportionality in e-discovery, and questions of access to justice have been important topics as well.
Join us for a Relativity Legal Education tradition, the Data Discovery Mid-Year Legal Update, as we analyze case law these issues, the latest on e-discovery, and other legal developments since the beginning of the year.
We’ll be welcoming leading legal commentators: the legendary retired judge, the Honorable Andrew Peck of DLA Piper; the attorney who obtained the first legal approval of technology-assisted review outside the United States, Karyn Harty, partner at Ireland’s McCann FitzGerald, and Kelly Twigger, principal of ESI Attorneys and CEO of eDiscovery Assistant, in a free CLE webinar moderated by Relativity discovery counsel and legal education director David Horrigan.
Speakers
Speaker Biographies
The Honorable Andrew Peck is Senior Counsel at the international law firm, DLA Piper. Described by The New York Law Journal as “one of e-discovery’s most influential figures,” Judge Peck served as US Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York from 1995 until his retirement from the bench and return to private practice in 2018. Judge Peck served also as Chief Magistrate Judge from 2004 to 2005. He is known as a leading authority on the use of technology-assisted review (TAR) in e-discovery, having issued a trilogy of important TAR decisions, including his landmark Da Silva Moore decision in 2012, the first known judicial approval of the use of TAR, Rio Tinto in 2015, and Hyles in 2016.
Karyn Harty is a Partner at McCann FitzGerald in Dublin, where she leads a team of media lawyers specializing in complex media defense litigation, including defamation and privacy. In June 2022, she was named Media & Entertainment Lawyer of the Year at the 2022 European Women in Business Law Awards. Karyn Harty is also known internationally as the lawyer who brought technology-assisted review (TAR) to Ireland, obtaining the first judicial approval of TAR outside of the United States in Quinn in 2016. She is also a member of the Sedona Conference International Working Group (“WG6”), and she is the author of the Discovery chapter in the Law Society of Ireland's Civil Litigation Manual and a co-author of the CLAI Good Practice Discovery Guide v2.0.
David Horrigan is Discovery Counsel and Legal Education Director at Relativity. An attorney, award-winning journalist, former e-discovery and information governance industry analyst, podcast co-host, and frequent law school guest lecturer, he has written articles for ALM’s Legaltech News for the past 21 years, and he has served as Analyst and Counsel at 451 Research and Reporter and Assistant Editor at The National Law Journal. His awards include Runner-Up for Best Legal Analysis in the LexBlog Excellence Awards and Best Vendor Magazine Article from the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA). He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/US by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and he is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia.
Kelly Twigger is Principal at ESI Attorneys, an e-discovery boutique law firm, and CEO of eDiscovery Assistant, the online legal research platform specializing in e-discovery and related legal disciplines that was named an Innovator in Legal Research by IDC. Kelly was recognized by Corporate eDiscovery as one of the voices driving the conversation in e-discovery. A former litigation partner at an Am Law 200 law firm, she is also the host of Case of the Week with Kelly Twigger, a weekly e-discovery case law program produced with the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), and she has been one of the co-authors of Electronic Discovery and Records and Information Management published by West.
