Date: Tuesday November 8, 2011
Time: 7:00 am PT / 10:00 am ET / 15:00 GMT

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Managing Bribery Act, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, and other event-driven investigations and the associated electronically stored information (ESI) – in an efficient and defensible manner, while balancing privacy rights – has become a critical business function. Driven by increasing cross-border legal and regulatory complications, as well as hefty fines, sanctions and damage awards, organizations can no longer afford to manually or poorly manage ESI.

In-Place Legal Hold is the best approach is to preserve ESI in-place to prevent spoliation and/or loss, and ensure privacy is maintained to keep non-relevant or private information from being collected to reduce risk and costs.

In this presentation, you will learn:

What market issues in the US and EMEA are driving the need to be proactively prepared for audits, investigations and eDiscovery / eDisclosure events

Best practices approaches to conducting in-place hold, analysis and categorization of ESI

Considerations for managing ESI in the context of regulatory, legal, governance and compliance demands

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IT for Lawyers: What is in our corporate datacenter…and why you need to know!

Speaker: Janet Heins, Director, Collaboration & Information Governance  Biogen Idec.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011, 9:30 PT / 12:30 ET

The datacenter in your company houses a vast amount of information and across all business functions. To further complicate matters, the IT department is turning to the cloud and managed services to reduce costs and improve services.

After this webinar you will:

	Know a high-level landscape of a Corporate Datacenter
	Understand which components can be key to eDiscovery
	Know which key items to consider when engaging with third-party IT service providers
	Enhance communications with IT when partnering on requests

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Speakers: Edwin M. Larkin, Esq. – Partner Venable, LLP  & James D. Shook, Esq. – Director of the eDiscovery and Compliance Team at EMC Corp.

Networking & breakfast:  8:00 – 8:30 a.m. EDT
Program: 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. EDT

In litigation matters, you are responsible for any relevant data that is in your “care, custody or control.” But what happens when that data is stored in “The Cloud”? Traditional notions of ownership and control no longer apply in the same manner as they have for physical goods, such as paper documents. What happens to your data – and your obligation to a court or regulator – when that provider will no longer access “your” data because they have terminated your account for non-payment or alleged mis-use? What if your provider needs 3 weeks to collect your data, but you have to respond within 3 days?

Join our panelists for a thought-provoking discussion in which we will discuss:

·         the basic framework of regulatory and compliance issues that you need to know when you entrust your data with a third party;

·         questions to ask and contract terms to consider when you are entering into a “cloud” agreement; and

·         different types of cloud models to consider that might fit your needs.

Location:

Vanderbilt Suites
Metlife Building
200 Park Ave. at E 45th St.
New York, NY 10166

Please email NYEvents@Venable.com by August 25 to register for this event.

William E. O'Neil, Jr., Esq., eDiscovery expert

Part I

Faster, better, cheaper was the mantra at NASA as it set goals to improve quality, efficiency and better manage costs after several setbacks…it was a way to set goals and measure success from a “top down” approach of looking at it from all perspectives and seeking to better quantify risks & rewards in various programs…expect quality, but demand efficiency!!!

Faster, better, cheaper was clear theme from LegalTech 2011…good Information Governance makes good business sense!

The hidden Return On Investment in eDiscovery lies in understanding the entire spend…not just the obvious third party costs and understanding and quantifying risks in the current process.

I have been working with several clients in developing business cases and ROI models to frame the various challenges and drive strategic initiatives.  The key to success is having developed a “base-line” understanding of the current process & identifying all key players.  The nature of eDiscovery tends to affect IT, RM, the Business and of course, Legal.

As “beauty is in the eyes of the beholder”…all parts the organization affected by the process sees this from a different perspective should be included in the dialogue.

Key drivers in these initiatives is cost take-out and optimization of eDiscovery & regulatory compliance processes.  Understanding the current state of the process, people involved, key processes & technology to get visibility & control of the process…this is typically an evolution over time and requires a continued commitment to total quality management.

Best Practices that cut across the broad theme of Faster, better, cheaper:

• Identify all the “stakeholders” & process owners
• Identify all “Consumers” of ESI
• Define cost of current process
• Understand the organization’s “Legal Profile”
• Form cross-functional team to drive change

Understanding all these different elements of the People, Process & Technology in your eDiscovery process is the key to controlling costs & mitigating risks.

If you would like to discuss this topic further…please give me a call or send an email @ ted.oneil at emc.com.

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Thursday, June 9, 2011 – 11:00 AM EST

In this webinar you will learn:

Speaker: James D. Shook, Esq., CIPP

Director, E-Discovery and Compliance Practice
EMC Corporation

Jim Shook is a recognized authority on legal discovery and compliance issues related to electronic informa tion. On a regular basis, Mr. Shook discusses e-discovery, compliance, and privacy issues with companies throughout the world, sharing best practices, discussing challenges, and working to develop and deploy real-world solutions to these problems. He has also delivered expert consulting services in the compliance area, most recently in e-mail policy management and e-discovery preparedness.

Speaker: Brendan Schulman

eDiscovery Counsel
Kramer Levin

Mr. Schulman serves as Kramer Levin’s E-Discovery Counsel. In that capacity, he advises clients on the preservation, collection, processing, review and production of electronic information, with an emphasis on early case assessment and other cost-effective and defensible strategies. He also counsels attorneys and clients on effective discovery strategies and advocacy, with a view to emerging developments in this rapidly-evolving field. Mr. Schulman lectures and writes on electronic discovery and legal technology topics and is a member of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 on Electronic Document Retention and Production and the American Bar Association E-Discovery and Digital Evidence Committee.

Moderator: Jeremy Evans

Of Counsel, Litigation Department
Paul Hastings

Jeremy Evans is an of counsel in the Litigation practice at Paul Hastings. Mr. Evans focuses his practice on civil and criminal antitrust matters, government and internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation cases.

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Heidi Maher, Esq., eDiscovery Expert

Just when you thought the idea of a government investigation couldn’t get any worse, here comes the new Supreme Court ruling in FCC v. AT&T, Inc., 562 U.S. ____(2011).

The case began in 2004, when AT&T realized that it may have been collecting too much government cash as part of the E-rate program that provides broadband access to schools around the country. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened an investigation, and in response to its request for documents, AT&T turned over massive amounts of data.  The matter appeared to be resolved when AT&T paid a fine of $500,000 and agreed to fix its oversight of the program with no acknowledgment of wrongdoing.   However, the settlement was not good enough for CompTel, a trade association representing long-distance providers which included some AT&T competitors.  In 2005, CompTel’s assistant general counsel, made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking all the documents AT&T submitted to the FCC. When the FCC agreed to allow them access to this information, AT&T challenged that decision, citing an exemption in FOIA that bars the public release of government records when such action could “constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”

AT&T maintained that the personal privacy exemption applied to corporations as well as people since corporations are considered legal “persons” in the United States.  This was the winning argument at a federal appeals court, convincing judges there to block the release of the information.  However, the Supreme Court disagreed and unanimously ruled against AT&T.  After lengthy discussions about grammar, the court concluded that though corporations are described as “persons” in the law, that doesn’t mean that “personal” in “personal privacy” applies to them.

This ruling should be a clear wakeup call to those corporate attorneys who operate under the assumption that it doesn’t really matter if they do not have good eDiscovery practices because the threat of serious sanctions is remote.  After this opinion, it will be easier for ordinary citizens and competitors to gain access to most records turned over during government investigations. Therefore, any damaging information that is turned over, whether relevant to the investigation or not, can potentially serve as fodder for the media and competitors. Since not turning over documents to government investigators is rarely an option, this means when the government comes knocking at the door, corporations who have their informational house in order, will have an easier time finding and turning over only the requested material and nothing else.  Corporate lawyers, who dump massive amounts of data over to investigators because they lack the knowledge or means to sort through them in time, can now be potentially held responsible for affecting their company’s bottom line.

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Esoteric ESI: Getting past Enterprise Email to discover Facebook, Social Media, and Mobile Devices

Date: Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Craig Ball, Esq.

Time: 9:30 AM Pacific

Preserving, collecting and processing “basic” electronically stored information (“ESI”) such as email and unstructured data stored on laptops and file shares is a complex and expensive task for most organizations. But far more difficult work is just ahead… In this presentation, we will look at legal requirements and current practices in handling some of the more frequently encountered “esoteric” forms of ESI such as Facebook, Social Media, the Cloud, mobile devices, transient or “ephemeral” data and even SQL databases.

James D. Shook, Esq., CIPP EMC eDiscovery Expert

• What is beyond Email?
• Facebook: Social Media done Right
• Cloud: Public and Private…it matters
• Mobile devices: Treasure trove of email, SMS, and App Data
• Wikis, Blogs, and other user created content
• Ephemeral Data…elusive and relevant

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Records Managers have greater involvement in discovery practices as organizations move discovery in-house as a repeatable business practice.  We’ll look at EDRM and the emerging IMRM and how the focus in eDiscovery is shifting.  We’ll help you understand how information management improves the discovery process and the role that records managers play.  Understand why shifting from a reactive to proactive stance can strategically benefit your organization, and the implications for information management.

If you missed LegalTech Session, click below to see the presentation:

Pardon the eDiscovery (CLE Credit)

Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm ET

Room: Concourse Level Room F

This McLaughlin Group style, fast-paced, round table type session will tackle ten of the top eDiscovery challenges from three very different perspectives:  inside counsel, outside counsel, and an eDiscovery consultant.  With just a minute to spend on each topic, you can be sure to get a focused, opinionated perspective on each of these hot eDiscovery issues!

Speakers:

James D. Shook, Esq., Director eDiscovery & Compliance Legal Team EMC

Martin Tully, Esq., Litigation partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman

J. David Morris, EMC moderator

R.S.V.P. today, as space is limited.

The Original – eDiscovery Turf Wars: Legal v. IT (CLE Credit Available)

Time: 1:30 – 2:30 pm ET

Room: Concourse Level Room F

The most challenging issue in eDiscovery has been and continues to be the knowledge gap between Legal and Information Technology professionals.  Misunderstandings surrounding legal obligations and technical capabilities are often at the heart of matters.  Our panelists have  “Top 5 Legal mistakes that result in Sanctions,” the “Top 5 IT mistakes that can sink your case,” and “How Legal and IT can work together to strengthen your case.”

Speakers:

James D. Shook, Esq., Director eDiscovery & Compliance Legal Team EMC

Ian Redpath, Esq., co-author of e-Discovery for Dummies

Dr. Linda Volonino, co-author of e-Discovery for Dummies

George Socha, Esq., Socha Consulting

Richard Vestuto, Esq.,  Vice President – Client Advisory Services – Merrill

J. David Morris, EMC moderator

R.S.V.P. today, as space is limited.