UBIC Participates in the 21st International Association of Korean Lawyers Annual Conference “Crossing Borders – The New Legal Landscape”
Redwood City, CA (PRWEB) September 26, 2013 -- UBIC, Inc. (TSE: 2158; NASDAQ: UBIC), a provider of strategic international litigation support through CJK TAR™(Technology Assisted Review) and forensic solutions, continues its tradition of supporting the International Association of Korean Lawyers (IAKL) through sponsorship of their 21st annual conference held at the Korea University, Seoul in Korea on September 26th -29th. The conference is held in Korea and other global locations on alternate basis.
“An integral part of our strategic global vision as a publicly traded company listed on NASDAQ is to continue our outreach internationally as a leader in Asian-language predictive coding in the legal arena worldwide”, said Masahiro Morimoto, Founder, CEO and Chairman of UBIC. “We continue to be a pioneer in cross-border litigation projects, enabling law firms and corporations to overcome the cultural and language barriers in a context of constant pressure to reduce litigation costs”.
The 2013 annual conference will bring together Korean legal professionals and law students from around the world, to acquire in-depth knowledge of important legal issues in the global context, and to understand different legal systems of many countries. This year’s conference theme is: “Crossing Borders – The New Legal Landscape” that entails 15 educational seminars, addressing both domestic and overseas legal issues that cover cross-border concerns in our global economy as well as legal system today.
Highlights of the conference agenda include:
“Strategies for Opening, Building & Managing a Successful International Office”
“Inbound & Outbound Private Equity Activities in Korea”
“Strategic Patent Analysis for Risk Assessment & Portfolio Exploitation”
“Survival Guide to U.S. e-Discovery & Depositions”
“Multi-jurisdictional Cartel Enforcement”
About the IAKL
The IAKL is an international organization consisting of lawyers of Korean descent from all over the world, founded upon a common Korean identity and pride. Since its inception in 1988, IAKL has played a major role as a platform for networking and cooperation among lawyers, and has endeavored to help shape legal culture in the globalized era. As a part of this effort, annual conferences have been held alternately in Korea and venues abroad. This year, the conference will be held at the law school of the historic Korea University.
About UBIC
UBIC, Inc. (TSE: 2158; NASDAQ: UBIC) is a leading provider of Asian-language eDiscovery, forensic solutions and services. UBIC has extensive eDiscovery and forensic experience and expertise with information documented in Japanese, Korean, Chinese as well as English languages, and applies its expertise in connection with cross-border litigation, administrative proceedings and internal investigations, including those related to anti-trust investigations, intellectual property (IP) litigation, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and product liability (PL) investigations. UBIC serves its clients from offices in Japan, the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.
UBIC’s proprietary technology platform, Lit i View™, version 6.7, is an innovative eDiscovery solution that accurately handles Asian-language characters, encoding schemes and native file systems. UBIC also recently launched its flexible and customizable Legal Cloud™ service to address the problem of rising costs associated with the growth and dispersion of data volumes across the globe, along with prolonged investigations and litigations.
With flexible, customizable end-to-end solutions and services covering the entire electronic discovery reference model (EDRM) life-cycle for corporate litigation strategy and crisis management, UBIC has assisted clients in more than 310 administrative and legal proceedings in the United States, including Department of Justice (DOJ), International Trade Commission (ITC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigations and more than 700 corporate investigations in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan and Singapore. Assisted by highly experienced litigation attorneys, UBIC provides a range of services facilitating fact discovery, patent management, security, internal audit and regulatory compliance that can provide a significant cost savings to its clients.
For more information about UBIC, contact [email protected] or visit http://www.ubicna.com
Sunil Mudunuri, UBIC North America, Inc., http://www.ubicna.com, +1-650-654-7664, [email protected]
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