It’s here! Today the UF Law eDiscovery Conference starts and here are Day 1 2023 UF Law eDiscovery Conference highlights to look for!

There’s a full day of legal technology and eDiscovery education today and here are some of the educational Day 1 2023 UF Law eDiscovery Conference highlights (all times ET):

10:00 AM: Technological Progress: The Threat of Deep Fakes in Litigation

Speaker: Jerry Bui, Managing Director, FTI Consulting

11:00 AM: Guidance for Legal Teams from Case Law Decisions in 2022

Speakers: Mac McCoy, U.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida; Ryan Tilot, Of Counsel, Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart P.A.; Kelly Twigger, Principal, ESI Attorneys LLC

1:00PM: Nuts & Bolts Lightning Talks

Speakers: Doug Austin, Editor, eDiscovery Today; Kassi Burns, Senior Attorney, King & Spalding; Leslie Oneal, Mediator, Jams; Jonathan Lomurro, Esq. LLM, Medical Malpractice Attorney, Lomurro Law; Chad Roberts, Discovery Counsel, eDiscovery CoCounsel, pllc; Tom O’Connor, Director, Gulf Coast Legal Tech Center; Judge Kristine Van Vorst, County Judge, Alachua County, Eighth Judicial Circuit, State of Florida

2:00 PM: Facing Preservation Dilemmas Head On – Tackling Complexities of Workplace Collaboration Tools

Speakers: Ralph Artigliere, President, Ralph Artigliere LLC; Amanda Sansone, United States Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida; Suzanne Clark, Mass Torts Discovery Counsel, Beasley Allen Law Firm; Rose Jones, Partner, King & Spalding

3:00 PM: Negotiating the ESI Protocol

Speakers: James Francis, Arbitrator, Mediator & Special Master, JAMS; Lea Malani Bays, Partner, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP; Amy Sellars, Vice President Legal Operations, CBRE; Tessa K. Jacob, Partner, Husch Blackwell

4:00 PM: The Annual Judicial Panel

Speakers: David Horrigan, Discovery Counsel and Legal Education Director, Relativity; Xavier Rodriguez, US Courts; Patricia Barksdale, United States Magistrate Judge, Middle DIstrict of Florida; William Matthewman, U.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S.District Court, S.D.Fla.; Gary Jones, United States Magistrate Judge, Northern District of Florida; Julie Sneed, United States Magistrate Judge, Middle District of Florida

The full agenda is available here for you to check out with descriptions of the sessions.

I’m honored and excited to participate again this year in the conference!  My session will be one of the Nuts & Bolts topics on Wednesday, February 8th at 1:45pm where I’m currently slated try to get through ten eDiscovery project management topics in ten minutes – the fifth ten-minute presentation in the hour (gulp!). Hope I don’t get Matt Damon-ed! 😉

You can register here to attend the conference, which, in my opinion, is now the best two-day eDiscovery conference there is for terrific speakers and topics! There are over 3,000 people attending!

So, what do you think? Are you going to be the only eDiscovery professional that doesn’t attend?  Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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