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Foreign Language Review in a Box Translating the Issues

Foreign Language Review in a Box Translating the Issues. Panelists . Caroline Sweeney Global Director E-Discovery & Client Technology Services Dorsey & Whitney Richard Kershaw Managing Director FTI Consulting, Hong Kong. Getting Started. Jurisdiction: Why Does It Matter?

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Foreign Language Review in a Box Translating the Issues

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  1. Foreign Language Review in a Box Translating the Issues

  2. Panelists • Caroline Sweeney • Global DirectorE-Discovery & Client Technology ServicesDorsey & Whitney • Richard Kershaw • Managing DirectorFTI Consulting, Hong Kong

  3. Getting Started • Jurisdiction: Why Does It Matter? • Technologies: What’s Different? • Review & Translation: Where Do You Start? • How Do You Find the Right Vendor? • Key Takeaways

  4. Why doesjurisdiction matter? What is the CULTURE? • Local laws • Privacy, Privacy, Privacy…can the data be moved? • Asia • Resources: Vendors, Technology, Reviewers • Workflow Options

  5. Technologies: What’s Different? • Collection • Forensic preservation really matters • BEWARE: Non-Unicode data • Search & Cull • Fulltext indexing: How does it work with foreign languages? • Understanding tokenisation • Will Predictive Coding or Concept Clustering work? • Review Platforms

  6. Review & translation:Where do you start? • Native language review or translate to English? • Translation • Person vs Machine • Certified or not – what is the price? • Where will the review team be located? • How do you find reviewers that are…….. • Fluent in native language & English • Understand relevant law & culture

  7. How do you find The right vendor? • Experience in the jurisdiction (how long & what) & references? • What other vendors do they partner with or subcontract to? • Do they have native speaking consultants in country? • Sample resumes of staff on the ground & language skills? • Ability to do collection, processing & hosting? • Where are their OWN forensic labs & where is data hosted? • Technology/TAR/machine translation capabilities for non-English review? • How does the vendor process non-unicodemultibyte data? • How is the data indexed & tokenised, how does this impact search strategies? • Ability to handle complex encryption & other types of email? • Do not make assumptions! Ask questions!

  8. Key TakeAways • Asian languages present technical challenges, compounded by layered regional compliance requirements: • Experience is important • Technology won’t solve everything, workflow design is more valuable than software features • Use agile project management • Understand your options • Understand jurisdictional requirements: • Work with legal team to balance local discovery requirements to conduct foreign collection, processing, review & production • Don’t do it alone – tap into experienced vendors

  9. Comments/Questions

  10. Sponsor Contact Info Richard Kershaw Managing Director, Technology Level 22 The Center 99 Queens Road Central Hong Kong SAR E: richard.kershaw@fticonsulting.com T: +852.3768.4584 M: +852.6771.5212

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