Osgoode Short Course in Obtaining, Producing and Presenting Electronic Evidence

When : January 24 & 25, 2011

Where : Toronto, Ontario

Dominic Jaar will present on "Early Case Assessment and Review of Electronic Documents" and "Collection and Processing of Electronic Information Demystified: What Happens in the Black Box?" at the Osgoode Professional Development Centre.

 

The program and registration information are available at the Osgoode Professional Development's website.

8th General Counsel’s Role in Maximizing Board Effectiveness

When: December 20 & 21, 2010
Where: Toronto
Who: Rob Gerbrandt



Rob Gerbrandt, Senior eDiscovery Consultant and Director, will participate in the 8th General Counsel’s Role in Maximizing Board Effectiveness conference organized by Federated Press.

Rob will lead the workshop titled The creation, use and risk assessment analysis of document management policies:


Other subjects on the conference program include:

The conference is oriented towards general counsels and corporate secretaries looking to enhance their role in good corporate governance.

For full program and registration information please click here (PDF).

7th Annual Advanced E-Discovery Institute 2010

When: November 18-19, 2010
Where: Arlington, Virginia


Dominic Jaar will participate on a panel titled "Not Just EU Privacy: A Global View on International E-Discovery", which will take place the Georgetown Law University's Advanced E-Discovery Intitute.

"Globalization and the geographic proliferation of ESI have led to an increase in discovery of ESI located outside the United States, presenting practitioners with complex legal, cultural and linguistic challenges. While touching upon data privacy and regulatory issues in the European Union, this session will also focus on other, just as important, international issues such as the challenges of multi-lingual data sets, cultural differences in addressing discovery and dealing with discovery in Asia, Canada and Eastern Europe.

Full program and registration information available on the conference website.

14th Annual Canadian IT Law Association Conference

When: October 28-29, 2010
Where: Montreal


IT-Can comes to Montreal for its fourteenth annual conference. This leading conference in the Canadian world of IT law once again delivers a very substantial and interesting program, along with top quality speakers!

On the first day, a panel on IT Contracting will adress the following topics : service levels and liability, data confidentiality, risk allocation, and privacy and cloud computing. Two separate presentations will also take place, the first on social media and the second on open source business models.

The second day starts with an annual IP update on copyright, patents and trademarks. The topic of the afternoon panel will be online and mobile privacy: location based services, profiling and target advertisement, deep packet inspection, social media and much more…

Aside from these conferences and panels, the program of each day suggest a choice of eight roundtables: IT industry regulation, e-commerce and consumer protection, technology and litigation, recent developments in Québec, recent developments in communications law, transformations in outsourcing, IT procurement and finally comparative IT law.

Full program and registration information available in the conference brochure (PDF). The program is certified for 16 CLE hours by the Barreau du Québec.

Consumer Health Products Canada’s Marketing Seminar - More Than Buzz - How to Capitalize on Social Media

When: October 19, 2010
Where: Toronto

"As social media continues to grow, it provides consumer health product manufacturers the chance to reach millions of customers and interact with them about their brand. But getting corporate buy-in, especially from the top, can still be a challenge."

Dominic Jaar will address an audience of various delegates involved in the marketing of consumer health products about the legal aspects, the risks and opportunities of the use of social media in this field.

More information and registration form on the CHPC's website.