Paralegal Power Break: eDiscovery 101

Paralegal Power Break: eDiscovery 101 from Rainmakers College

Paralegal Power Breaks are short information packed sessions that provide useful career information to paralegals at all career levels.  When you are a paralegal and especially if you work on criminal and civil cases understanding eDiscovery is a must.  You may not need to be an eDiscovery expert but you must at least know the basics.  

eDiscovery is basically becoming a separate practice area within the legal industry with entire laws being created to address the nuances and complexities that exist when dealing with electronically stored information.  Now more than ever paralegals who choose to learn more about eDiscovery will see that the sky is the limit for them and their careers.

EDisovery is the process of applying traditional legal discovery process to electronic evidence it encompasses any electronically stored information (ESI) which can include: 

• Documents  
• e-mails  
• pictures  
• Web pages 
• databases 

In this short information packed session you will learn the following: 

1. Learn about e-discovery and digital forensics 
2. Learn about the various types of digital evidence 
3. Understand the factors affecting digital evidence collection 

Date:  January 18, 2017
Time:  10:00am - 10:15am PST