Pre-Conference Workshops - Monday, April 26, 2010

9:00 – 11:30 Workshop A: Electronic Records Management Skills For Human Resources Professionals

What You Will Learn:

• Workforce data privacy and reporting
• Accessing records of employees in foreign locations
• Making sure document retention and disposal policy complies with internal/external employment policies
• Managing email communications containing confidential employee information
• Understanding how international employment policies and wage laws interact with those in the U.S. in eDiscovery proceedings
• Creating internal protocols for communicating policies for legal holds to employees and securing retention of data in the case of new hires, transfers and terminations
• Can an employer search electronic devices owned by employee to search for company ESI?

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12:00 – 2:30 Workshop B: Early Case Assessment Strategies And The Pitfalls Of Disjointed Collection

What We Will Cover:

• The disparate collection techniques and their potential pitfalls (and benefits)
• Ethics issues related to early (pre-litigation) searches and discovery
• Devising sophisticated keyword search criteria to focus on key aspects of a potential litigation
• Recent case law regarding keyword searches
• Recent case law on preservation and spoliation

What You Will Learn:

• How to exploit existing tools to identify potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI)
• How to collect the ESI in a standardized manner that is defensible and resistant to challenges
• How to review the ESI quickly to make an educated assessment of the company's exposure and the merits of the case
• How to conduct pre-Rule 26(f) conference searches in order to cut discovery costs

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3:00 – 5:30 Workshop C: EDiscovery: Achieving Litigation Readiness While Cutting Costs & Improving Outcomes

What We Will Cover:

In today's litigious environment, being unprepared for electronic discovery can be an expensive situation and a huge risk. Organizations are bombarded by mountains of data, aggressive court imposed deadlines and economic times have never been more challenging. No matter where your organization is in its eDiscovery readiness journey, this workshop can help.

What You Will Learn:

• eDiscovery update – what are the recent developments and trends.
• What are the real risks and threats of eDiscovery and how do you minimize those risks, while maximizing cost savings and auxiliary benefits, such as better information management?
• Scenario review to explore best practices and pitfalls to avoid
• Where to start readiness planning and how your organization can lay a broad foundation for eDiscovery readiness that can grow with you
• How building scalable enterprise information management and eDiscovery capabilities can make your company more "litigation-ready" and allow you to evolve in a changing business and eDiscovery environment

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