From Scarab Consulting

Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 02:00 PM

Event Description:

Judges at both the state and federal levels are demanding cooperation, competence and early discussions regarding the disposition of electronically stored information “ESI” in discovery. In order to meet those judges’ demands, it’s crucial that organizations appoint an e-discovery expert or “liaison”. Regardless of whether this appointee is from internal ranks or an outside consultant, the liaison must have a deep understanding of both legal and technology and how these two issues intersect from a defensibility and cost justification standard. This webinar will cover recommended best practices for meeting the courts’ demands through having an e-discovery liaison, including:
The Evidence Liaison Role in Discovery
Legal Background and Guidelines for Evidence Liaison
Evidence Liaison and the Matter
Liaison Best Practices in Complex/Non-Complex Litigation Matters
Speaker Information:

Fred Kopec
General Counsel
Scarab

Frederick Kopec is Scarab’s General Counsel. Mr. Kopec came to Scarab from the law firm of Moster Wynne & Ressler, PC, where he was Corporate Counsel, and used his 25 years of private-practice experience to help executives and entrepreneurs with their commercial, transactional, real estate, intellectual property, litigation and employment law matters.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Kopec served as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Renew Data Corp. There, Mr. Kopec was responsible for all corporate legal matters, including sales, purchasing, licensing, corporate governance, real estate, litigation management and employment law issues. He managed the company’s legal department, and helped coordinate and close two rounds of private equity funding totaling $35 million.

During his tenure as Group Legal Counsel of 724 Solutions, Inc., Mr. Kopec managed the legal transactions of the international public company’s worldwide software development, licensing and professional services businesses and served as an advisor to senior management. He developed and implemented internet trademark and domain name protection and registration strategies, managed the company’s portfolio of trademarks and domain names, and assisted the General Counsel in administering the corporate Patent Policy. He managed outside counsel for international labor law, patent and litigation issues.

Over the combined 15 years he worked in-house at IBM, Tandem Computers and Texas Instruments, Mr. Kopec negotiated and managed more than $50 million in government contracts, helped close many multi-million dollar technology deals, developed contracts for strategic relationships, advised inventors and assisted with the preparation and submission of patent disclosures. He repeatedly helped create and implement effective corporate practices, standardized business agreements and licensing practices, and served as a liaison between corporate, legal and specific business units for legal, export control and intellectual property matters.

Larry Lieb
Chief Innovation Officer
Scarab

Larry Lieb is the Chief Innovation Officer of Scarab Consulting responsible for generating and applying original intellectual property in the field of electronic discovery. Since 1998, Mr. Lieb has been a nationally recognized expert on the best methods to reduce the overall costs of dispute resolution through the appropriate application of technology. Mr. Lieb created, operated, and sold the largest computer forensics and e-discovery provider in the Midwest. The company is still in existence today and enjoys an excellent national reputation.

Mr. Lieb regularly provides corporations with accurate litigation cost models using his proprietary methods. His Total Cost of Litigation model allows corporations to make an informed cost risk analysis of pursuing any given litigation matter by understanding the true total costs that will be encountered including outside vendors, internal and external counsel costs, court reporting, expert witness costs and more.

His models also enable corporations to measure the true cost reductions that can be achieved by building internal litigation support capabilities. Armed with his expertise, corporate legal departments predict and therefore are able to justify conservative returns on investment for bringing litigation technology in house.

Mr. Lieb is a nationally-recognized speaker, thought-leader, author, and CLE instructor regarding e-discovery best practices, and cost and risk management. He often participates in speaking engagements at conferences on e-discovery, and participates in various expert forums and advisory groups, including the 2,000 member Litigation Support Yahoo Group of which he is Founder and Owner.

Mr. Lieb received a B.A. in Japanese Studies from the University of Illinois, was a Kohn Scholar in the Humanities, and spent his Junior Year at Konan University in Kobe Japan

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