Attenex Announces Best Practices in Electronic Discovery Series

 

Live Event in New York and Two Web Seminars Focus on Best Practices in Electronic Discovery

SEATTLE — Sept. 20, 2004 — Attenex® Corp., a developer of electronic document review software for litigation and regulatory response, today announced it has teamed with KPMG to launch an educational series focused on the important topic of e-Discovery.

An added value for attendees of the 2004 E-Discovery Conference, sponsored by American Lawyer Media and the Business Development Institute, Attenex and KPMG will hold its live seminar event on Oct. 6, 2004, at 8:00 a.m. EDT in New York City. The event boasts a panel of expert attorneys and consultants, including George Socha, Socha Consulting, LLC; Jeff Bresch, counsel, Reed Smith LLP; Kenneth Shear, senior vice president, SPI Technologies; Stephanie Mendelsohn, partner, Reed Smith LLP; and Jerome Swindell, associate director for the Regions, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission, who will provide the latest electronic discovery issues concerning antitrust, complex litigation and litigation readiness.

A full agenda of the seminar is available online at: http://www.attenexevents.com/nyseminar/agenda.asp.

“The “Best Practices in Electronic Discovery” seminar brings together a panel of attorneys and consultants who understand the unique challenges of processing, reviewing and producing electronic documents in litigation and regulatory response,” said Mike Kinnaman, vice president of marketing, Attenex. “The seminar will offer practical and relevant information that the audience can employ and benefit from immediately.”

In addition to the live event, Attenex and KPMG are also presenting two Web-based seminars. The first Web-based event, titled “Creating an Effective Digital Discovery Strategy” on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2004, at 1:00 p.m. EDT will provide case studies and lessons to help attorneys and litigation support teams successfully manage electronic discovery in matters of all sizes. The second Web-based seminar, “Discovery Tactics for Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook,” scheduled for Oct. 19, 2004, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, will focus on issues related to the processing and review of e-mail.

Hosted by Skip Walter, CTO of Attenex, and Chris Paskach, national partner-in-charge of KPMG LLP Forensic Technology Services, both Web events are scheduled to last one-hour.

For more information on the Attenex and KPMG live and Web-based seminars, please visit http://www.attenexevents.com.

About KPMG Forensic Technology Services

KPMG Forensic offers a complete array of services including: Investigative and Integrity Advisory and Forensic Technology Services (FTS). Our FTS team provides technical investigative support and digital evidence-collection services globally. As a complement to our evidence collection and retrieval services, our Cypress Technology Center (CTEC) provides advanced discovery management services for capturing, storing, retrieving, analyzing, viewing, and sharing discovery information and work product. We can convert millions of pages of your paper and electronic documents and data into manageable formats, then host that information on a secure platform. KPMG's end-to-end approach to Forensic Technology Services helps organizations mitigate risks and reduce discovery management costs by (i) providing advanced, easy-to-use tools for data culling, review and mining – often in native file format, (ii) eliminating vendor hand-off integration or finger-pointing issues, and (iii) providing a full audit trail accountability and tracking of your data on a secure, remotely accessible platform. For more information call (714) 934-5400 or visit www.us.kpmg.com/fts.

About Attenex

Headquartered in Seattle, Attenex is a business-to-business software company that provides tools and best practices to corporations and law firms to improve the efficiency of document intensive processes, such as electronic document discovery in litigation and drafting of complex legal documents. More information about the company and its products can be found at www.attenex.com.