Educational Partners:

HaystackID is a specialized eDiscovery services firm that helps corporations and law firms find, listen to, and learn from data when they face complex, data-intensive investigations and litigation. With an earned reputation for mobilizing industry-leading computer forensics, eDiscovery, and attorney document review experts, our Forensics First, Early Case Insight, and ReviewRight services accelerate and deliver quality outcomes at a fair and predictable price.
HaystackID serves more than 500 of the world’s leading corporations and law firms from North American and European locations. Our combination of expertise and technical excellence, coupled with a culture of white glove customer service, makes us the alternative legal services provider that is big enough to matter but small enough to care. Learn more today at HaystackID.com.

Prism Litigation Technology has been providing eDiscovery consulting services in complex litigation and large-scale governmental investigations for over two decades. Prism is often called upon to act as a court-appointed eDiscovery liaison, providing expertise in legal hold, data mapping, index-in-place solutions, collection, search term optimization, and machine learning guidance. Prism’s team includes certified eDiscovery legal professionals and attorneys, data scientists and linguistic experts, certified technologists, and forensic examiners. Prism’s unique “Prism Periscope” methodology for eDiscovery focuses on pinpointing key evidence quickly by using defensible and customized techniques to reduce the amount of data moving downstream . The result is an expedited eDiscovery timeline and dramatic cost savings for our clients.
For more information, contact us at info@prismlit.com, visit our website at prismlit.com, or connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter.

Insight Optix is a legal technology company with the first and only solution in the market that addresses the root cause of excessive eDiscovery. Evidence Optix® empowers early discovery scoping, budget projections, proportionality analysis, and data source tracking throughout the litigation lifecycle. This revolutionary tool disrupts the traditional and expensive eDiscovery process through a simple, yet powerful, SaaS-based solution that commences in the gap between legal hold and collection – where early decisions significantly impact cost and burden downstream.
Evidence Optix’s patented workflow has received numerous innovation awards, and is the foundation for the new proportionality guidelines developed by 56 judges, practitioners, and eDiscovery experts through the George Washington University Law School’s Complex Litigation Center.
Insight Optix is proud to be a WBENC-certified, woman and veteran owned business. Learn more at https://insightoptix.com.

IPRO is reinventing the way organizations interact with their data. By transforming the EDRM and thinking “upstream”, we bring insight far earlier in the eDiscovery process, enabling teams inside and outside your organization to collaborate transparently at any stage, before data is even collected. By thinking about and interacting with your data differently, you’ll eliminate waste and reduce risk. We combine best-in-class governance and eDiscovery software with predictive analytics to give corporations, government agencies, law firms, and legal partners the most open and effective solution to data challenges. We bring you this power with an obsession on time-to-value and your success. Learn more at https://ipro.com/.

Cimplifi is a leading integrated legal services provider, leveraging technology and expertise to simplify the experience of eDiscovery and contract analytics for law firms and legal departments. Our client-centric ecosystem and experience offers a curated portfolio of technology-enabled solutions that integrates proprietary tools and automated workflows with market-leading software to deliver an easy-to-use, end-to-end system that streamlines processes, unifies reporting, and empowers users. For more than two decades, clients have relied on our expertise and ingenuity to solve complex challenges, bring innovative solutions, and deliver intelligence and insight to help them manage risk, control costs, and get more done, more effectively and with far less effort and stress. Cimplifi is ISO 27001 certified and is a division of System One. Learn more at http://www.cimplifi.com/.

Hanzo brings context and a greater understanding of enterprise data to corporate legal and compliance teams by providing in-house control over dynamic and collaborative data sources. This control allows organizations to reduce millions of dollars in risk, litigation, and compliance costs and elevate their corporate legal and regulatory compliance responses. Hanzo’s software empowers defensible preservation, targeted collection, and efficient review of dynamic content from enterprise collaboration applications and complex websites. Hanzo is SOC 2® Type 2 certified, demonstrating its commitment to data security and serves large corporations worldwide. Learn more at hanzo.co and follow updates on Twitter: @gethanzo or on LinkedIn.

Avansic is a leading provider of eDiscovery and digital forensics services to attorneys, litigation support teams, and business communities across the nation. Avansic takes a scientific approach to provide eDiscovery, digital forensics, data preservation, online review, and expert consulting services.
Avansic has its roots in academia, founded in 2004 by computer science professor Dr. Gavin W. Manes. Since then, Avansic has created a reputation as a trustworthy, reliable, and responsive specialist in eDiscovery and digital forensics, incorporating a unique approach to pricing to deliver expert services with a personal touch. Learn more at Avansic.com.

ProSearch is a leading provider of comprehensive discovery solutions to corporate legal departments and law firms, empowering them to better manage their portfolio of matters for improved legal and business outcomes. With advanced technologies, innovative workflows and deep expertise in deriving insights from data, ProSearch enables teams to better respond to litigation, investigations, regulatory and compliance actions.
ProSearch Enterprise is tailored to align with an organization’s business goals, including platform, support, and services.
ProSearch Microsoft 365 Managed Services help you manage Microsoft licenses, data, and discovery processes across the EDRM lifecycle, reducing the cost and risk of eDiscovery.
ProSearch Privacy Suite uses deep learning models and natural language processing to quickly identify documents containing private, sensitive, or personal information.
ProSearch WorkStream is a unique discovery solution for chat, messaging and collaborative data.
Learn more at Prosearch.com, or connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter.

UnitedLex is a data and professional services company delivering outcomes that create value for high-performing law firms and corporate legal departments in the areas of digital litigation, intellectual property, contracts, compliance, and legal operations.
Founded in 2006 with a mission to push the boundaries of legal innovation, we provide solutions that enable measurable performance improvement, risk mitigation, revenue gain, cost reduction and digital business synergy. Our footprint spans 25 jurisdictions with major operation centers in 19 countries and a team of 3,000+ legal, data and technology professionals around the world.
To learn more visit UnitedLex.com.

OpenText™ end-to-end eDiscovery solutions feature integrated eDiscovery tools to help legal teams identify, preserve, collect, search and investigate data.
OpenText ensures law department leaders, their legal teams and outside counsel quickly gain insight into the large volumes of data they collect, generate, manage and file by:
- Accelerating time to results with streamlined end-to-end eDiscovery
- Centralizing and controlling eDiscovery processes and spend
- Protecting, securing, and remediating sensitive data
- Delivering expertise every step of the way
OpenText offers a broad array of expert services to optimize use of its legal technology and accelerate information time to value at every stage. Services include data collection, forensics, managed document review, investigation support, eDiscovery consulting, data breach response analysis and reporting, and implementation. For more information about OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX) visit www.opentext.com.

Oasis specializes in custom cloud solutions for complex, mission-critical workloads. Hyper-focused on performance and compliance, Oasis builds and manages custom private clouds that integrate high-performance hardware, network infrastructure, cyber security, disaster recovery, and a variety of managed services to provide a comprehensive cloud solution. The international company is headquartered in Los Angeles and London with distributed operations in five countries. Learn more at oasisdiscovery.com or contact info@oasisdiscovery.com.

KLDiscovery provides technology-enabled services and software to help law firms, corporations, and government agencies solve complex data challenges. With 25 locations across 16 countries, KLDiscovery is a global leader in delivering best-in-class data management, information governance, and eDiscovery solutions to support the litigation, regulatory compliance, and internal investigation needs of clients. Serving organizations for over 30 years, KLDiscovery offers data collection and forensic investigation, early case assessment, data processing, application software and data hosting for web-based document reviews, and managed document review services. In addition, through its global Ontrack data management business, KLDiscovery delivers world-class data recovery, disaster recovery, email extraction and restoration, data destruction, and tape management. KLDiscovery has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in North America by both Inc. Magazine (Inc. 5000) and Deloitte (Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500), and CEO Chris Weiler was a 2014 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year™. Additionally, KLDiscovery is a Relativity Certified Partner and maintains ISO/IEC 27001 Certified data centers around the world. Visit www.kldiscovery.com/ to learn more.

Veritas Alta™ eDiscovery: A cloud-based discovery solution that enables you to collect, review and produce electronically stored information for your organization’s legal and investigation needs. Alta Discovery provides a complete one step solution: defensible collection of your organization’s relevant content sources, purpose-built review of all types of data, and efficient production of your relevant documents. Visit https://www.veritas.com/alta/ediscovery to learn more.

Casepoint is the legal technology platform of choice for corporations, government agencies, and law firms to meet their complex eDiscovery, investigations, and compliance needs. Powered by cutting-edge AI and advanced analytics, Casepoint helps teams cut through large volumes of data to quickly identify insightful and actionable information. Casepoint’s secure and scalable cloud-based platform is designed to help organizations take control of their data and processes to maximize efficiency, mitigate risk, and lower overall legal spend. Casepoint’s easy-to-use and intuitive interface provides legal hold, cloud collections, powerful data processing, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, review, and production. Learn more about Casepoint at https://www.casepoint.com/.
Foundational Partners:

Empowering the global leaders of e-discovery, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) creates practical resources to improve e-discovery, privacy, security and information governance. Since 2005, EDRM has delivered leadership, standards, tools, guides and test datasets to improve best practices throughout the world. EDRM has an international presence in 113 countries and growing and an innovative support infrastructure for individuals, law firms, corporations and government organizations seeking to improve the practice and provision of data and legal discovery. Learn more about the EDRM today at EDRM.net.

Craig Ball is a Texas trial lawyer, certified computer forensic examiner, law professor, electronic evidence expert and general counsel to EDRM. He’s dedicated his career to teaching the bench and bar about forensic technology and trial tactics. Ball limits his practice to service as a court-appointed special master and consultant in computer forensics and e-discovery. Ball can be reached at www.craigball.com or on his Ball in Your Court blog at www.craigball.net.
Affinity Partners:

eDiscovery Assistant is a first of its kind digital playbook and legal research tool leveraging a proprietary tagging system that tags each decision by ediscovery issue — a true asset for lawyers and legal professionals to add to their ediscovery toolkit. Founded in 2016 and developed by attorneys who practice eDiscovery 24/7, eDiscovery Assistant includes curated databases of case law, rules, checklists and forms, and a glossary of terms. For additional information on eDiscovery Assistant LLC, visit https://www.ediscoveryassistant.com/ or follow eDiscovery Assistant LLC on LinkedIn and Twitter.

The Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), part of leading legal education provider The BARBRI Group, is a global member-based association for professionals who work in e-discovery, information governance, compliance and the broader legal community. ACEDS provides training and certification in e-discovery and related disciplines to corporate legal departments, law firms, the government, service providers and institutions of higher learning. Our CEDS certification is recognized around the world and used to verify skills and competence in electronic discovery for organizations and individuals through training, certification and ongoing education. The CEDS credential is held by practitioners at the largest Fortune 500 companies, Am Law 200 firms and government agencies. ACEDS has 23 chapters, with locations in most major US cities, the UK, Ireland, Canada, the Netherlands and South Africa (with Australia and South America chapters coming soon). Our goal is to help professionals and organizations reduce the costs and risks associated with e-discovery while helping to improve and verify their skills and advance their careers and overall technology competence in e-discovery and related fields. http://www.aceds.org/

Founded in 2006, The Master’s Conference is a boutique thought leadership forum where a select group of speakers, vendors, and attendees convene to engage in a proactive collaboration on current challenges within the legal space. This includes such areas as eDiscovery, artificial intelligence, information governance, legal project management, forensics and investigations, data governance, knowledge management, cybersecurity and data breaches, and other current trending topics. To learn more visit https://themastersconference.com/.