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.

Breakfast Bytes Seminar: E-discovery and the new Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure

When : April 14, 2010
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Where : Ottawa
Westin Ottawa
11 Colonel By Drive,
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 9H4

Find out what you need to know about e-discovery and the new Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure.

Please join us for breakfast and some conversational “bits and bytes” by knowledgeable lawyers and industry experts.

Learn:
- About the revised Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure’s mandate respecting the discovery of electronic documents — Dominic Jaar; Ledjit Consulting Inc.
- How to break down and demystify the electronic discovery process — Pam Fontaine-Peters; Micrapol Associates Limited
- Practical tips and tricks for gathering, processing and reviewing electronic documents — Pam Fontaine-Peters; Micrapol Associates Limited

$25.00 + GST

Register online, email litigationservices@lexisnexis.ca or contact Ingrid Fazio, at 1-800-245-8926.

eRecords Academy for Corporate Counsel

When:  February 22, 2010

EXECUTING SOCIAL MEDIA, Toronto

E-Discovery Training at Osgoode Hall

Leveraging e-Discovery Tools and Processes

When:  January 27, 2010

The Information Security Rendezvous

When: May 13th and 14th, 2009
Where: Centre Mont-Royal in Montréal

For the first time in an RSI, a whole series of sessions are devoted to technical personnel and those responsible for developing applications solutions bearing on technical issues.

The second track includes four sessions on Best Practices in Information Security.

The third series will be dedicated to issues of Governance. The sessions in this track will attract the attention, above all, of TI and security coordinators, i.e. CIOs and CSOs.

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MAJOR BUSINESS AGREEMENTS

When? April 23th and 24th 2009
Where? The Hampton Inn Ottawa

Get the latest practice tips on negotiating the best deal for your client for any business transaction and state of the art contract drafting by hearing from leading lawyers. They will discuss these and other hot button topics:

-Structuring of angel and venture capital transactions, including
cross-border issues
-Corporate law update on directors’ duties in dealing with major business transactions: lessons learned from BCE
-Current trends in M&A transactions
-Public-private partnership infrastructure project contracts
-Pension funding and other exit considerations in the employment contract
-Crown corporations’ due diligence transactional requirements
-Essential terms in outsourcing technology contracts
-Procurement documents when dealing with the public sector

and much more

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Legal IT Conference

On April 20 and 21, here is why you will not be at your office: 

Legal IT 3.0, the largest and the most important conference of the year in Canada on the impact of information technologies and their potential for law.

Program 

During the conference, each participant is invited to design his own personal program, based on his interests, by choosing from the various sessions offered, which cover a wide variety of topics and are relevant for many practice areas and types.

Speakers

In addition to the keynote speaker, Ronald J. Deibert (Director of the Citizen Lab), several dozens of experts, from Montreal and other Canadian cities as well as from abroad, will participate.

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2009 NATIONAL SPRING CONFERENCE

When: April 5-7, 2009
Where: HYATT REGENCY MONTRÉAL

Spring Training Camp is open to in-house counsel only. You will learn first-hand from your in-house colleagues and top outside counsel the core competencies you need to succeed, with an emphasis on practical tips and hands-on advice and with plenty of opportunities to interact with faculty and other attendees.

SPRING TRAINING CAMP PRESENTED BY CCCA WITH LEX MUNDI AND ITS MEMBER FIRMS IN CANADA
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP
MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP
McInnes Cooper
Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP

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ABA Techshow 2009

When? April 2-4, 2009
Where? Hilton Chicago

ABA TECHSHOW is the world's premier legal technology CLE conference & expo. The three-day CLE conference is attended by more than 1,500 professionals each year and produces more than 50 legal technology CLE programs and training sessions in fifteen topical tracks.

ABA TECHSHOW also features a two-day expo. Learn about the latest products and services in the Expo Hall, featuring more than 100 companies providing the latest hardware, software, and technology services to attorneys and law firms.

Tracks subjects are

-A Day in the (Techno) Life – New for 2009
-Paperless Practice
-E-Discovery Boot Camp
-Large Firm/Corporate Counsel
-Internet Track
-Solo & Small Firm
-Tech for Financial Management
-Tech for Client Development

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3rd In-House Counsel Forum Workshops and Awards

Presented par Incisive Media

Where? February 25-27 2009
Where? St. Andrew’s Club and Conference Centre, Toronto

Workshop: Leveraging IT Software and Systems for a State of the Art Legal Department 

Dominic Jaar and t Kevin Lo, director at LECG Canada Ltd. offer a presentation described as follow:

"As in-house counsel, your organization will expect you to play a significant role in its information and records management. Current computer technology and forensics will help reduce the risk of spoliation of records and decrease the threat of malfeasance. What must you know about the latest IT to advise senior management on legal risks?

E-discovery is radically changing the litigation process. How can your organization reduce litigation costs while preparing for trial in the most efficient manner? 

In this dynamic and interactive workshop, you will learn about exciting developments in these critically important new practice areas for in-house counsel.

- Enterprise Content Management 
- Who owns what?
- Documents versus records
- Workflow issues to standardize business processes and rules
- From relational databases to dependable records
- Developing and maintaining data and network maps
- what IT will do
- what legal will do
- Identifying Electronically Stored Information (“ESI”)
- Understanding search technologies and methodologies
- Managing “data explosion”
- Addressing challenges with new media
  - portable devices
  - VOIP
  - instant messaging
  - cloud computing
  - web 2.0 applications 

- The new world of blogging for corporate counsel
- Social networking 

- E Discovery
  - Litigation preparedness
  - Preservation
    - Active and inaccessible files
    - “low hanging” fruits
  - Collection methodologies 
    - Digital forensics
    - MD5Hash and why matters
    - metadata issues
  - Processing 
    - Data filtering, data culling and triage
  - What litigation and technology support teams must know
  - Cost issues
  - U.S. trends" 

Bringing E-Discovery In-House

Dominic Jaar and Patrick Oot, senior counsel and E-Discovery Director at Verizon Inc. present this conference during which they will provide tips about how and what to in-source to save and keep control over the e-discovery process. Here is the session description:

"As conducting e-discovery and successfully managing the process have become increasingly complex, it is now more important than ever to master technologies and have an in-depth understanding of your client’s IT infrastructure and record management. External counsel does not have the time to learn everything they need to know to effectively help their clients. Conversely, the costs to outsource e-discovery are prohibitive and militate in favour of insourcing the process. That is why e-discovery practice has become and will continue to be a core competency of in-house counsel.
This expert panel will walk you through the reasons why corporations should insource and how to do it cost effectively. You will also hear about live examples where different phases of the EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model) have been dealt with internally with great success. You will learn how to better manage your informational assets and reduce liability by ensuring your client’s compliance." 

Following this conference, Incisive Media will be giving its annual in-house counsel awards in the following categories. To suggest someone, please click the following hyperlinks [PDF]:

- Environmental Stewardship
- Innovation
- Social Responsibility/Corporate Citizenship, and
- Alternative Dispute Resolution

For more details regarding the awards, click here.

Regarding the conference:
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LegalTech New York - The Effect of Data Protection Law on Collection and Discovery

Presented byIncisive Media

When? February 2-4 2009
Where? The Hilton New York Hotel 

This panel comprised of Robert Brown, Vice President First Advantage, and Dominic Jaar, moderated by George Rudoy, Director of Global Practice Technology & Information Services at Shearman & Sterling, will discuss the following topics :

• Divergent views of privacy and privilege in Canada, the EU and Asia
• The relationship between business and government
• Technology hurdles, including encryption and proprietary email systems

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Presented by the National Judicial Institute When? January 25 -29, 2009 Where? Victoria, British Columbia This conference is accessible exclusively to the chief Justices, Chief Judges and Associates of all Canadian courts. This session entitlted "Technol

Presented by the National Judicial Institute

When? January 25 -29, 2009
Where? Victoria, British Columbia

This conference is accessible exclusively to the chief Justices, Chief Judges and Associates of all Canadian courts. This session entitlted "Technology: How to Best Harness and Utilize It -Issues Presented by New Technologies" will be divided in different parts and presented by the folloowing speakers:

The Honorable Andre Wery, Associate chief justice of the Superior court of Quebec: Intro

Prof. Richard Susskind: The impact of technologies on the judicial

Dominic Jaar: The use and benefits of technologies by lawyers and judges.

Susan Wheeler: Technology courses offered to judges by the National Judicial Institute (NJI)

The Honorable Andre Wery, Associate chief justice of the Superior court of Quebec: Outro

Are You Getting the RPM out of KM to Keep You Out of ICU?

This session offered at the 4th Annual CBA Law Firm Leadership Conference is descried like this: 

Clients demand excellent quality at a good price – and they don’t pay firms to reinvent the wheel. In response, the most successful law firms are leveraging their accumulated knowledge, moving beyond just capturing precedents. Where it once might have been enough to manage "convenience" technology such as PCs, cell phones, PDAs, the web and the Internet, successful firms recognize that in order to remain competitive today, they have to make substantial investments (and earn a return) on putting their knowledge to work for clients.

Our panel of experts will provide insights on how you can implement Knowledge Management (KM) effectively, with advice on the role of technology and work culture in maximizing the benefits of KM. Two leading law firm KM experts – Michael Mills, of Davis Polk Wardell (New York, NY), and Jeff Rovner, of O'Melveny Meyers (Newport Beach, CA) – will share their insights. Joining them to provide the perspective of a Canadian firm that has successfully implemented a targeted KM project will be F.J.F (Frank) Quinn, of Bilkey Quinn (Kamloops, BC), which has transformed an entire practice area for the benefit of a key client (Royal Bank of Canada).

When? November 2-4, 2008
Where? Marriott Château Champlain Hotel, Montreal, Que.

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In-House Counsel Congress - Storing, Converting and Destroying Records as Part of Your Risk Management Strategy

Presented by the Canadian Institute 

When: November, 17th and 18th, 2008
Where: Arcadian Court, Toronto

Th e Canadian Institute’s 12th Annual In-House Counsel  Congress provides you with the opportunity to enhance your network of peers and gain practical strategies from leading in-house professionals and private practitioners.
Whether you are associate, senior or management counsel, you will learn successful techniques for overcoming common management challenges and for staying up-to-date on key legal developments.

Gerard Power, Vice President International, Canada Post Corporation, and Dominic Jaar, will present on the topic of Storing, Converting and Destroying Records as Part of Your Risk Management Strategy. Here is an overview of the matters which will be discussed:

• Developing a document management and retention policy that works for your company
- What are the legal guidelines?
- What is the role of in-house counsel?
- What are other companies doing?
• Tips for facilitating and monitoring compliance with the organization’s document retention policy
- How to get buy-in from the business side of the company to ensure compliance
- Is auto-delete eff ective?
• Best practices for managing e-mails
- Advising people on what to put in their e-mails
- How long do you keep e-mails?
• Tips for converting paper to electronic versions
- How do you determine what records to destroy?
- When can you destroy the paper version?
• Exploring e-discovery from an organizational perspective
- What is the impact of e-discovery on document retention policies?

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Georgetown Law CLE: 5th Annual Advanced E-Discovery Institute: The Discovery of ESI Comes of Age

When: November 19th-21st, 2008 
Where: Doubletree Hotel Crystal City-National Airport • Arlington, VA

This is a program, unique in its comprehensiveness, designed for in-house lawyers, paralegals, IT professionals and records managers who bear responsibility for grappling with the demanding discipline of the discovery of Electronically Stored Information (ESI). At the close of this one-day seminar, you will walk away with numerous practical tips and strategies from noted experts in the realm of e-discovery, including in-house counsel at other companies who have been “in the trenches” dealing with electronic discovery. Through interactive real-world problem solving sessions with electronic discovery counsel for several publicly traded companies, and other recognized experts, this one-day program will show you how to strategize and solve existing e-discovery problems while preparing for the problems of tomorrow.

Dominic Jaar will present during the first day entitled E-Discovery from the Corporate Side: Challenges and Solutions with Moderator Allison L. Brecher, Senior Litigation Counsel & E-Discovery Coordinator, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., Hillary Lane, Vice President, Litigation, NBC Universal, Inc., Cheryl Strom, Records Information Manager, McDonald’s Corporation and R. Bruce Whitney, Assistant General Counsel, Litigation, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. on a panel entiltled: An Ounce of Prevention: Records Management &
Litigation Readiness Strategies.

Here is an overview of he topics that will be discussed:
• How in-house counsel at various wellknown companies “sold” these proactive
steps to their corporate management
• The records management and disaster recovery policies of various organizations
• ECM systems that best meet e-discovery needs
• Designing e-mail/IM sensitivity training
• Establishing e-discovery readiness, IT, and  “ALERT” teams
• Creating e-discovery forms
• Cost effective and efficient data mapping

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