Discovery Resources

October 9 -1:00 PM ET (30 minutes – Part 2 of 8 in the Financial Crisis, Litigation and Electronic Discovery complete webcast series). This webcast will analyze the role of Discovery Response Plans, with a focus on readiness for subprime litigation and investigations. More details / Register >

Kevin LaCroix, from the D&O Diary blog, will be our guest for a webcast on Wednesday, October 1, 2008, (register here, archived here when available) on litigation during this financial crisis.  Starting in the subprime, moving to a liquidity crisis, engulfing CDO’s, monoline insurance, auction rate securities and other instruments, Kevin is one of the clearest voices about potential liabilitiy in this area.

Of particular concern is the exposure of officers and directors.  My reading (headline level) caught an executive compensation clawback (the opposite of our kind and gentle privilege clawback) and Kevin notes that the organization responsible for sorting out the assets may be a bigcontinue…

Thursday, July 17 - 1:00 PM EST -  Mary Mack, Jason R. Baron, and James Daley discuss the latest from The Sedona Conference® Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production, including the eight practice points from the Search and Retrieval Sciences Special Project Team.  Click here for more information and to register.

Thursday, June 19, 2008 – 1:00 PM EST – Sam Panarella, Esq. and Peter McLaughlin will provide an overview of steps organizations can take to become “discovery ready” to mitigate risks related to spoliation, missed production deadlines, and controlling the scope of discovery. Click here for more info.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 – 1:00 PM EST – Brad Harris, Director, Discovery Center of Excellence, Fios, Inc., will address the top 10 questions IT should be asking their Legal counterparts to initiate a productive, often critical dialogue. Click here for more information.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008 – 1:00 PM EST – Mary Mack, Esq. and Dennis Kiker, Esq. will discuss new court decisions, such as the recent Victor Stanley, Inc. v. Creative Pipe, Inc., as well as approaches that can be taken to facilitate compliance with the changing legal landscape. Click here for details.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - Judge Ronald J. Hedges will be conducting a webcast entitled “A Waiver of Privilege? Understanding the Implications of FRE 502”

EVENT:  Wednesday, April 09, 2008
10:00 AM Pacific / 1:00 PM Eastern (Webcast Length: 1 hour)
Faculty: George Socha, Jr., Esq. | Principal, Socha Consulting
Tom Gelbmann | Principal, Managing Director of Gelbmann & Associates

The EDRM Project was launched three years to address the lack of standards and guidelines in the electronic discovery market — a problem identified in the 2003 and 2004 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery surveys as a major concern for service providers and consumers alike. Acceptance of the original, and evolving, reference model framework is growing throughout the industry. Success has encouragedcontinue…

May 8 and 9, 2008 – St. Paul, Minnesota – Celebrate the conclusion of the EDRM Evergreen, Code of Conduct, Metrics 2, and XML 2 projects; Launch EDRM Evergreen 2; and EDRM Code of Conduct 2; EDRM Metrics 3; EDRM XML 3. Click here for more info / RSVP