Dennis I. Wilenchik is the managing partner of Wilenchik & Bartness, P.C. and is a nationally certified civil trial and pre-trial specialist with the National Board of Trial Advocacy, with over 39 years’ experience as an attorney. He represents a select group of clients, including high-profile clients, in the business, real estate, construction, and government sectors.
Live Video-Broadcast: July 28, 2022
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Attorneys have an ethical duty to understand the nuances of preserving, gathering, culling, producing, and presenting electronic evidence at trial. Most information today is electronic. State and federal rules of procedure impose upon parties and their counsel an affirmative duty to identify and store all electronically stored information (“ESI”). The more forms of ESI that an attorney has at trial, the greater the issues related to getting that evidence admitted. This CLE will give you the tools to authenticate ESI and be prepared to overcome objections at trial.
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Date / Time: July 28, 2022
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Dennis I. Wilenchik | Wilenchik & Bartness, P.C.
Dennis I. Wilenchik is the managing partner of Wilenchik & Bartness, P.C. and is a nationally certified civil trial and pre-trial specialist with the National Board of Trial Advocacy, with over 39 years’ experience as an attorney. He represents a select group of clients, including high-profile clients, in the business, real estate, construction, and government sectors. Mr. Wilenchik has tried hundreds of cases in both federal and state court and is licensed in Arizona, the District of Columbia, New York, Texas, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Prior to forming Wilenchik & Bartness in 1991, Mr. Wilenchik was a senior partner and head of litigation for the 45-lawyer firm, Storey & Ross, that later became the Phoenix office of the international firm of Squire Patton Boggs. After a judicial clerkship at the Supreme Court of Arizona in 1977 with Justice Holohan, he was a judicial assistant for the Presiding Criminal Judge of Maricopa County before joining the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office as a Deputy County Attorney where Mr. Wilenchik was promoted to the Special Operations Division specializing in white collar crime before entering private civil practice in 1980.
Mr. Wilenchik is rated Martindale-Hubbell AV®-Preeminent™, the highest rating available under the Martindale Hubbell rating system, and is listed in the national Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. He has been named “Best Trial Lawyer” by Arizona Foothills Magazine, is a member of the State Bar of Arizona, Top Rated Lawyers, Lawyers of Distinction, Rue’s Best Attorneys of America, Arizona’s Finest Lawyers, and The Fellows of the American Bar Association.
I. Introduction | 2:00pm – 2:10pm
II. What is ESI? | 2:10pm – 2:25pm
III. Overview of the process of gathering and receiving information | 2:25pm – 2:35pm
IV. Drafting discovery that captures all forms of ESI | 2:35pm – 2:50pm
V. Duty to Preserve | 2:50pm – 3:00pm
Break | 3:00pm – 3:10pm
VI. Meet and confer re ESI | 3:10pm – 3:20pm
VII. Authentication | 3:20pm – 3:30pm
VIII. Admissibility | 3:30pm – 3:45pm
IX. Expert Witnesses | 3:45pm – 3:55pm
X. Sanctions for Failure to Disclose | 3:55pm – 4:10pm