Washington D.C. – January 22, 2019 – Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, today announced that several senior executives will lead CLE panel discussions at the Legalweek New York 2019 conference.
Speakers include: Chief Client Experience Officer, Amy Hinzmann; Vice President of Review Solutions, Lindsay Cox; and Vice President of Strategic Consulting, Margaret Valenzuela; who will all be moderating panels for the Diversity and Thrive Legaltech Educational Track on Wednesday, January 30th. Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Marketing, Pete Feinberg, Global Director, Canaan Himmelbaum, and Vice President, Global Marketing & Product Experience, Omid Jahanbin will present a recurring session throughout the conference on Hitting the Next Gear: Designing a Modern eDiscovery Platform for Workflow Efficiency & Quality.
Innovative Law Departments: New Roles Highlight the Importance of Innovation in Law Departments
10:30 – 11:30am
Speaker: Amy Hinzmann
Location: Beekman Parlor
The legal industry has recently experienced an expansion in roles focused on legal innovation. In this informal fireside chat setting, this panel will highlight leading legal industry experts on how their roles have evolved. They’ll also discuss how organizations can create new roles to promote diverse hiring practices and encourage innovation. Additionally, they’ll delve into how focusing on new technologies can not only support eDiscovery endeavors but also allow organizations to fully anticipate and meet their clients’ needs.
Using Technology to Build a Culture of Inclusion in the Legal Profession
1:30 – 2:30pm
Speaker: Lindsay Cox
Location: Beekman Parlor
How can a company’s legal department contribute to overall organizational diversity? There isn’t a single answer to this question: there are many! This panel of in-house legal experts will describe how technology has advanced their internal recruiting, hiring and promotion practices, and external vendor selection with an eye toward improving diversity. We’ll also explore how ground-breaking analytical tools and metrics can help legal teams examine the demographic and ideological range of their outside counsel and how they can use technology—whether as a carrot or a stick—to promote more inclusive practices within their teams and across their outside service providers.
The New Value Equation in Law: Diversity and Innovation – Innovations in Legal, Business & Educational Practices
3:00 – 4:00pm
Speaker: Margaret Valenzuela
Location: Beekman Parlor
Technology companies are innovating at breakneck speed. How can legal departments and outside counsel keep up? How do we defend our clients’ efforts to innovate business and legal practices? What role does diversity play in driving innovation? This session will consider the tools, processes, and workflows our panel of legal professionals have employed to foster in-house creativity and innovation and the role that diversity has played in expanding the universe of ideas and perspectives in the legal environment. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn firsthand about what has and hasn’t worked from seasoned in-house veterans who are guiding law departments to a more level playing field.
Hitting the Next Gear: Designing a Modern eDiscovery Platform for Workflow Efficiency & Quality
Tuesday – 11:45 – 12:45pm and 3:45 – 4:45pm
Wednesday – 10:15 – 11:15am and 2:15 – 3:15pm
Thursday – 11:00 – 12:00pm
Speakers: Pete Feinberg, Canaan Himmelbaum, and Omid Jahanbin
Location: Booth 114
User expectations of eDiscovery software has evolved significantly – from the basic load and cull workflows of yesterday to advanced analysis, modern user experiences, artificial intelligence-driven quality control, and more. This session will explore lessons learned from using various eDiscovery platforms and how innovation helps to increase quality and efficiency of eDiscovery workflows – from handling a large volume of small matters to running early investigations and case assessment.
At Legalweek, Consilio will be located at Booth 112. If you are interested in speaking with Amy Hinzmann, Lindsay Cox, Margaret Valenzuela, Pete Feinberg, Canaan Himmelbaum, Omid Jahanbin or another of Consilio’s on-site experts, please contact:
Media Contact
Gabrielle Simon
gsimon@prosek.com
203-764-2131
About Consilio
Consilio is a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services. The company supports multinational law firms and corporations using innovative software, cost-effective managed services and deep legal and regulatory industry expertise. Consilio has extensive experience in litigation, HSR second requests, internal and regulatory investigations, eDiscovery, document review, information governance, compliance risk assessments, cybersecurity, law department management, contracts management, legal analytics, paper discovery and digital printing, as well as legal recruiting and placement. Consilio and its global family of companies, Advanced Discovery, Altep, Millnet Document Services and Legal Placements Inc., employ leading professionals in the industry, applying defensible workflows with patented and industry-proven technology across all phases of the eDiscovery and risk management lifecycle. ISO 27001:2013 certified, the company operates offices, document review and data centers across Europe, Asia, and North America. For more information, please visit us at www.consilio.com.