Patrick Kennedy, a partner at Paradigm Electronic Solutions, joins George Socha, Senior Vice President of Brand Awareness at Reveal, for ACEDS #eDiscoveryLeadersLive.

Key Highlights

• [2:28] Paradigm: An established eDiscovery provider with a special focus on the construction market.
• [4:22] Patrick’s role at Paradigm.
• [5:00] Lesson’s learned: The help law firms still could use.
• [7:15] Looking beyond traditional sources and forms of ESI.
• [8:55] Why law firm lit support personnel should be Renaissance players.
• [10:16] The strategic value to be gained from assisting the other side.
• [13:00] The special challenges posed by construction litigation and how eDiscovery personnel can help.
• [15:47] Third-party tools they use and how they help.
• [18:49] What he looks for in eDiscovery tools.
• [20:21] Trends in the eDiscovery market.
• [21:42] The value of AI-driven eDiscovery software.
• [25:10] Patrick’s ideal eDiscovery platform.

Key Quotes by Patrick Kennedy

• • “When you do a custodian interview, nine times out of ten its not what you think… For example, we focus on the construction industry. A lot of times these construction projects are out in rural areas that don’t have the best connectivity and so when users can’t store documents on a file share back at the mothership a lot of times they find the path of least resistance to store their own data.”
  • “I think its important for a lit support person at a law firm to have general IT knowledge, a little bit of networking, a lit bit of database, experience with different applications that cover the whole OSI model from hosted platforms to ERP systems to text messages.”
  • “For me, the benefit [of helping the other side] is I get the data from the opposing side nice and clean the way I want it so I can go home at the end of the day and not stay up editing load files and that sort of thing.”

Connect with Patrick

Patrick Kennedy on LinkedIn

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