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Known Leader in the eDiscovery and Records Management Industry Joins
eDiscovery
Solutions
Group Advisory Board
eDiscovery Solutions Group announced
today that Professor Alan F. Blakely, Esq.,
member of EDRM and The Sedona Conference working group on eDiscovery
has joined the eDSG Advisory Board
Houston, Texas (March
9, 2010) - eDiscovery Solutions Group (eDSG), an emerging leader in
providing comprehensive eDiscovery and Governance, Risk and
Compliance (GRC) consulting, services and technology worldwide
announced today that it has added Professor Alan F. Blakley, Esq. to
its Advisory Board.
Alan F. Blakley has taught Evidence, Civil Procedure, Contracts and
Advanced Trial Practice at the University of Montana and at Thomas
M. Cooley Law School in Michigan. Professor Blakley is a
member of EDRM and The Sedona Conference working group on
e-Discovery. He is also a past project leader for EDRM’s
Code of Conduct project, and Chair of the Steering Committee of The
Sedona Conference Working Group on Protective Orders,
Confidentiality and Public Access. Prior to teaching,
Professor Blakley practiced law in Montana handling a variety of
complex cases including national class actions. He is licensed
to practice in the courts of Montana and Texas and federal courts in
Montana, Colorado, Michigan, the Court of Federal Claims, as well as
federal courts of appeal for the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth,
Sixth, Ninth, Tenth and Federal Circuits, the Court of Appeals for
the Armed Forces and the United States Supreme Court.
His writings include six books on discovery, including 2006 Digital
Litigation Handbook published by American Lawyer Media. In
collaboration with others, his book Discovery: Written and
Electronic is scheduled for release by NITA in Winter 2007 –
8. His most recent popular article “Ethics and
Professionalism in e-Discovery” appears in the August 2007 edition
of The New Jersey Lawyer. His most recent scholarly writing
“Digital Audio Files in Litigation: Did You Think Your Oral
Comments Couldn’t Come Back to Haunt You?” appears in the Fall
2007 International Journal of Legal Technology Risk Management.
He brings an international perspective to the practice, having
written about comparative e-discovery. His article,
“Information Technology and the Shift Beyond German Procedure in
U.S. Courts,” was recently nominated for the best academic paper
by the International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy
Issues in IT Law.
Professor Blakely's most recent article, co-authored with Lee
Pendergraft, CRM, titled "Ten
Steps for Evaluating and Selecting Software and Service Providers"
was published in Jan/Feb 2010 issue of Information Management, a
publication of ARMA International.
Beyond writing and teaching about e-Discovery, Professor Blakley has
produced two videos for use in continuing legal education programs.
The latest, Electronic Discovery Update: Impact of the 2006 Federal
Rules Changes, runs approximately one and one-half hours, uses a
federal judge and practitioners to dramatize (in courtroom scenes)
the impacts of the federal rules changes. He is a
frequent speaker at CLE’s across the country on topics relating to
electronic information management, and is on faculty for NITA’s
week long trial advocacy course.
Professor Blakley left academia in the Fall of 2006. He is now
a Senior Consultant with Third Coast Consultants where he offers a
variety of services to law firm and corporate clients, as well as to
the community at large. Since he has conducted discovery in
complex litigation, he is particularly suited to consult on
litigation preparedness, to create discovery plans prior to filing
litigation or prior to filing answers, or during preparation of
initial mandatory disclosures. He attends “meet and
confer” and other hearings with clients.
"We are extremely pleased to have someone with the extensive
educational and practical eDiscovery, GRC and document retention
policy experience and business acumen as Alan to join our Advisory
Board," stated Charles Skamser, President and CEO of
eDiscovery Solutions Group.
eDSG reports the Professor Blakley will be helping to guide the
company’s new consulting and technology offerings in document
retention policy development and management, data mapping, legal
readiness assessments and legal hold management.
About eDiscovery Solutions Group
eDiscovery Solutions Group (eDSG) is an international consortium
of leading independent eDiscovery consultants, eDiscovery consulting
firms, regional litigation service providers and best-in-class
eDiscovery technology companies that have come together to provide
all of the services, consulting and technology necessary to support
the entire eDiscovery lifecycle for the legal departments of
corporations, the IT departments of corporations that need to
support eDiscovery requirements and litigation centric law firms.
With a growing consortium of partners worldwide, eDiscovery
Solutions Group offers a broad array of eDiscovery and GRC
consulting, services and technology along with project management to
support the left side of the eDiscovery/GRC lifecycle.
Following the eDiscovery processing paradigm of the Electronic
Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), eDiscovery Solutions Group has
developed an eDiscovery/GRC best practices framework that includes
consulting, collection, analysis, processing, production and review.
Within this framework, the eDiscovery Solutions Group can deliver
data retention policy development and management, data
mapping, eSecurity, GRC development and technology, eDiscovery
readiness, FRCP Rule 26(f) consulting, paper and ESI
collection, investigations, expert testimony, data recovery,
computer forensics, early case assessment, data analysis, data
redundancy management, conceptual search, de-dupe, near de-dupe,
scanning, copying, coding, language translation, EDD, TIFF
conversion, hosting, on-site, on-shore and off-shore review
and legal process outsourcing (LPO). For more
information about eDiscovery Solutions Group, please visit: http://www.ediscoverysolutionsgroup.com/.
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