Speakers

Glenn T. Melchinger

Start with e-discovery issues involving terabytes of data and preserving whole computing environments.  Then add another layer of complexity with bilingual data.  "Understanding electronic information is increasingly crucial to effective advocacy," says Glenn Melchinger, whose Japanese language skills were essential in assisting a client with forensic preservation of data, analysis of that data, and presenting it as evidence and arguments that won a victory for his client in a recent case.  Mr. Melchinger's practice focuses on complex commercial disputes, international disputes, and commercial transactions.  His language abilities, honed by living in Japan for over four years, facilitate communications and problem-solving, whether the task is making U.S.-style discovery comprehensible for Japanese clients, or explaining the issues involved in a transaction.

Sessions

An Overview of E-discovery in the U.S.

“E-discovery” is a general term that applies to how the US legal system handles disclosures of electronically stored information in the context of litigation. Since the advent of specific Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in December 2006, e-discovery has increasingly become...

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