Archives of Conference on information technologies and the practice of law
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Tenth Annual IT Law Spring Training Program
When: May 27-28 2010Where: Toronto and Webcast
IT.CAN and the Law Society of Upper Canada are pleased to present the 10th Annual IT Law Spring Training Program. The exceptional faculty will present an extensive list of current information technology law topics. This program will be useful for technology lawyers whether in-house, government or private counsel, as well as for corporate commercial lawyers who handle technology issues in their practice.
This year’s IT Law Spring Training Program will provide an opportunity to learn from an outstanding faculty of experienced counsel. Do not miss it!
The program is certified by the Barreau du Quebec for CLE credit as well.
For full program and registration information please click here (PDF).
Computer and Enterprise Information Conference
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GLOBAL DISCOUNT: Delegates that register from anywhere outside of the United States can register for only USD$650 per person. This significant savings will help off-set the cost of your travel, making it that much easier to gain approval to attend. Simply enter code INP2010 into the discount code portion of registration to save.
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Breakfast Bytes Seminar: E-discovery and the new Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure
When : April 14, 20107:30 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
That’s why CCCA is pleased to announce our eRecords Academy for Corporate Counsel, presented by Ledjit Consulting Inc., specialists in e–Discovery, information management and IT litigation. This dynamic and wide–ranging program will help you get a handle on all of your e–records problems, including document retention, privacy compliance, e–Discovery and litigation management and the latest technological solutions.
EXECUTING SOCIAL MEDIA, Toronto
This is the premier event for CMOs, Social Media Managers, Online Community Managers, Corporate Communications, PR, Sales, Marketing & Brand Managers, Advertising, Internal Communications, IT and HR/Recruitment Professionals looking to capitalize on the power of social media. However, looking at this as an enterprise wide initiative is the best strategy.
E-Discovery Training at Osgoode Hall
Leveraging e-Discovery Tools and Processes
When: January 27, 2010- How to create defensible processes when satisfying reporting compliance requirements under U.S. and other regulatory regimes
- Advantages of "living" data maps of financial transactions for new financial regulations calling for greatertransaction transparency
- Approaches for systematic, proactive compliance with rules requiring electronic communications and retention
- Tips on leveraging automated collection and review processes for eDiscovery with internal and external audit,including preservation of chain of custody
Ilta 2009 - From Good to Great – Take Your Group from Litigation Support Providers to Expertise Ambassadors for Your Firm (session detail)
When? August 24, 2009 2h30Where? Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center Near Washington, DC - Wood Wilson B
Ilta 2009 is a four and a half day event, featuring educational content across 26 tracks. The theme of this event “Leading Technology | Optimizing Value - conveys two messages: It will be the premier place for ILTA decision-makers to come together to share their experiences as technology leaders to talk about how they best use leading technologies, and we'll all learn how to best optimize the value of IT in law firms and law departments, a particularly important focus in our current economic climate. The theme helps direct the conference educational program and the networking events of ILTA '09.
Dominic Jaar will be a panellist with Duane Lites and Suzan Wortzman for a conference on Practice Management entitled From Good to Great – Take Your Group from Litigation Support Providers to Expertise Ambassadors for Your Firm.
Whether you are starting a new litigation support group or growing an existing group into a more complex practice support department this session will be of interest to you. Our speakers discuss successful client development strategies; ways in which to improve your knowledge and understanding of business practices; how to leverage key relationships to advance your cause; how you can remain current in an evolving legal market; and how to maintain quality service in challenging economic times. Many litigation support managers aspire to take their groups from a shared service or back office function to a service which is valued by both the firm and its clients. This transition or journey will be discussed and tips will be provided on how to transition from an administration group into a client-valued service.
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Legaltech
When: June 24-25, 2009Where: Los Angeles Convention Center
LEGALTECH is the largest and most important legal technology event of the year. LegalTech® is the #1 Resource for law firms and legal departments to get hands-on practical information for improving their law practice management.
Track subjects are:
• Advanced E-Discovery: Action Plans: Creating Long Term Cost Benefits
• Advanced IT
• More than Just E-Discovery
• Managing your knowledge
• KLTW [Kroll Ontrack Litigation Technology Workshop] Spotlight your expertise and earn an EST Technology
• Emerging technology session
• Super Session
Dominic Jaar will be a speaker for the track entitled “Managing your knowledge” and the theme of the session is “The External Search”:
• Avoiding recreating the wheel – finding out what info is out there already
• External KM for competitive intelligence and analysis
• What are they saying about your firm and what are they saying about you?
• Moving beyond Google – other search engines and strategies
• Best tips for managing your personal external data: Linked-in, Facebook, Twitter
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9th Annual CEIC® (Computer and Enterprise Investigations Conference)
When? May 17 to 20, 2009Where? Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando
Dominic Jaar will give a conference about data protection in enterprises with Patrick Burke from Guidance Software.
This jam-packed four-day event will showcase technology innovations and enable you to increase your knowledge and skill level with nearly 130 breakout sessions across nine tracks.
Learn best practice methods and new techniques:
- Computer forensics and cybercrime
- Electronic discovery (e-discovery)
- Records retention, data auditing and policy compliance
- Internal investigations
- Information assurance
- Computer incident response
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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 2009Where? 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, 2009Where: 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, 2009Where? 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 MediaWhen? 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 InstituteWhen? 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 InstituteWhen: 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, 2008Where: 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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E-DISCOVERY: New Rules of Civil Procedure and Electronic Disclosure
Soyez à l’affût des nouvelles Règles de Procédure Civile et les obligations en matière d’administration de la preuve électronique. Votre organisation est-elle prête? Disposez-vous de politiques et de procédures en vue des litiges? Des experts dans le domaine vous convainqueront de l’importance de collaborer pour les spécialistes des technologies, les gestionnaires de dossiers, les archivistes et les avocats, tant internes qu’externes. Ils vous aideront aussi à réduire les risques et les coûts liés à l’administration de la preuve électronique.Programme
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