Consilio to Lead Data Privacy Panels Focused on Privacy Laws and Protective Technology at Legalweek 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 7, 2023 – Consilio, the global leader of legal technology solutions and enterprise legal services, today announced that several senior executives will lead data privacy panel discussions at the Legalweek New York 2023 conference.

At Legalweek, Consilio will be located at exhibitor booth 2116 and on the 2nd Floor Promenade conducting demonstrations of the award-winning Sightline platform for legal discovery, investigations, and legal hold. Join the Consilio team to learn more about how our top-rated platform and world-class client experience can make your matters more efficient while controlling cost and risk.

Speakers from Consilio include: Vice President, Cyber Response Solutions, James Jansen, Esq.; Vice President, eDiscovery Services, Jane Funk, Esq.; and Chief Information Security Officer, Jonathan Fowler, who will lead panels for the Data Privacy Educational Track on Tuesday, March 21st. 

Privacy Law Proliferation: A US, UK, and EU Privacy Update

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET

Speaker: James Jansen

Location: The Beekman Room 

In the absence of a federal privacy law in the US, states have begun to pass their own privacy laws, with California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia leading the charge. Additionally, in the UK and EU, privacy laws and their applications have continued to evolve. Privacy experts will discuss recent developments, changes on the horizon, and strategies for navigating these obligations.

Avoiding Data Disasters: Protecting Sensitive Information in Search, Review, and Production

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET

Speaker: Jane Funk

Location: The Beekman Room

Organizations struggle to adequately protect their private and confidential information in the ordinary course of business. When sensitive data moves out of its usual business function, and into the realm of review and discovery, the information risks escalate. The panel offers some successful strategies and best practices for attorneys and legal professionals to mitigate those risks during search, review, and production.

The Privacy & Security Toolkit: Technologies and Processes in Practice

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET

Speaker: Jonathan Fowler

Location: The Beekman Room

When it comes to protecting data, there are many tools and processes that organizations and individuals can implement. These solutions can help restrict access, monitor activity, and respond to threats. During the session, the panelists will discuss the key technologies utilized today to support data security and the protection of private information, how best to match solutions to your organization’s needs, and the future of data privacy and security technologies and processes.

If you are interested in speaking with James Jansen, Jane Funk, Jonathan Fowler or any other of Consilio’s on-site experts, please contact Brian Janson via email (bjanson@prosek.com).

About Consilio

Consilio is the global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services. Through its Consilio Complete suite of capabilities, 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 employs 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.

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Priori Legal, the leading legal marketplace for in-house legal teams, recently announced the appointment of three new Vice Presidents to the company’s senior leadership team. Becky Regan, Vice President of Data Analytics and Success, Scout, is a finance, analytics and operations executive with 18 years of experience including startups and companies in the Fortune 100. Ramya Varma, Vice President of Finance, is a seasoned finance executive with more than 15 years of experience in corporate financial management and investing in the tech industry. Iris Sullivan, Vice President of People Operations, has more than 12 years of experience in technology and e-commerce.

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Legal organizations are continually seeking ways to reduce their eDiscovery spend, manage eDiscovery processes more efficiently, and accurately forecast their legal budgets. Metrics play a significant role in achieving those goals.

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Priori Legal, the leading legal marketplace for in-house legal teams, today announced it was honored as a recipient of the Buying Legal Council (BLC) Collaboration Award in conjunction with Hearst for its work on an outside counsel decision-enabling platform called Scout.

In 2021, Priori and Hearst began a collaboration to use Priori’s powerful search and granular data-surfacing ability from its flagship Marketplace product to help in-house legal teams access insights about their existing, trusted firm relationships. Hearst, Zimmer Biomet, Marsh McLennan, a Fortune 10 company and Orrick were the beta cohort for Scout.

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A few months ago, we were mesmerised by DALL·E 2’s ability to generate realistic images and art based on short descriptions. Now the people behind DALL·E 2 have gone viral again with the launch of ChatGPT.

Both DALLE and ChatGPT highlight the advancements in generative AI. Compared to predictive AI, generative models have impressively fluent results, however, their quality is harder to assess. How do we know if a blog generated with ChatGPT is correct or if it’s accurate? Most of the output is fluent, and tangentially relevant, however these systems are inherently unreliable, making errors of both reasoning and fact.

While machine translation models are inherently predictive, where both accuracy and precision are expected, generative models like ChatGPT can open up new avenues for translators and the localization industry.

The cost of creating content will drop, which means that even more content will be created. This creates a need for linguistic services for revising, adapting, and certifying the AI output. The concept of Machine Translation Post Editing will expand into linguistic validation, cultural adaptation, tone adjustment, fact checking and bias removal.

Another application is generating shorter or longer examples of the translation to help with formatting in-context. It is clear that NMT models will be complemented by LLMs for improving fluency or offering value added services like content insight.

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To get a full picture of the current legal services market, you need to look back to the current economic downturn’s precursor, the Great Resignation, during which employees left the legal industry in record numbers. For law firms and corporate legal departments alike, the result has been vacancies that are taking too long to fill in the face of a workload that is as busy as ever, despite fewer resources to rely on.

So, what is the impact of the Great Resignation and economic downturn on the legal industry, and how will those trends fuel the rise of alternatives to the traditional law firm model? For many companies, one answer to the current predicament has been to turn to legal marketplaces, staffing firms or alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) to address their needs quickly and cost-effectively.

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Are you ready for a Contract Negotiation and Contract Management game-changer?

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The Financial Times explains the problem that technologies like Scout are solving: “In-house lawyers’ experience of dealing with complex problems and multiple processes should put them at the heart of new efforts to speed up business outcomes. Yet that happens all too rarely in practice—if anything, the legal department can often become an obstacle instead of smoothing the way.”

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Organizations that invest in future fit localization — people, process, technology — report enormous ROI: massively expanded capacity and speed, simplified workflows, and higher customer engagement and market penetration.

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This is the most intuitive and feature-driven version of Legal Files to date.

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