Establishing Controls for Your Program
Mark Lagodinski, CRM, Ernst & Young LLP

Global Retention Boot Camp

Faculty:
Tom Lahiff, Citigroup
Harry Pugh, Citigroup
Kevin Brady, Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz
Mark Lagodinski, Ernst & Young
Woods Abbott, Raytheon
Deidre Paknad, PSS Systems

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally – Responsibility Models
Bobbi Basile, Ernst & Young

One Size Fits All — Global Program Implications
Harry Pugh, Managing Director, Operations & Technology Policy Coordinator, Citigroup
Virginia Dickson, PSS Systems

Global Policy Elements — What’s In and What’s Out
Kevin Brady, Partner, Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz
Deidre Paknad, PSS Systems

Annual Summit, New York City
January 26-27, 2006
Matthew Cohen, Skadden
Ronald J. Hedges, U.S. Magistrate Judge
Harry Pugh, Citigroup
James Santangelo, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Gideon Schor, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
James Wright, Halliburton Company

Accelerating the Dialogue between Legal and IT: Distributing Responsibility without Losing Control
Matt Cohen, Skadden
Kevin Brady, Connolly Bove

Driving Strategic Advantage through Better Information Policies
CGOC 2005 Summit

The Intersection of Information Privacy Rules and Retention Rules
Lisa Sotto

Designing an Effective Records Retention Program
Kevin F. Brady

Retention: It's a Legal Problem, Not a Technology Problem
William A. Tanenbaum

Records Retention Lessons from a Litigator
Darryl P. Rains

Assessing Risk in the Information Lifecycle
Gerard Verweij

Policies for Electronic Information - Your Risks & Obligations
Adam Cohen

Conducting an Information Inventory
Fred Diers

A well-intentioned records management or legal hold policy alone is not enough to improve a recordkeeping environment or to satisfy regulators or the courts.  To assess and demonstrate how well its records management and legal hold programs are functioning, an organization must establish internal controls and audit for compliance.  In this session we will focus on ways to measure if the program is working as designed.  Control techniques and audit checklists will be presented.

CGOC Webcast
August 8, 2006

Defining and Implementing Global Retention Programs
This full-day session covered global retention programs from start to finish, including corporate policy models, classification schemas, integrating all types of electronic data and paper records vendors into the program, critical legal holds and preservation issues, training best practices, and auditing checklists. The course faculty included outside counsel with retention program expertise, process experts, and leading retention executives from the Fortune 100.

Faculty:
James Holley, Ernst & Young
Eric Schwarz, Ernst & Young
James Wright, Halliburton Company
Matthew Cohen, Skadden, Arps
Tom Barnett, Sullivan & Cromwell
Ronald J. Hedges, U.S. Magistrate Judge
Gideon Schor, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Carmen Oveissi Field, PSS Systems
Deidre Paknad, PSS Systems

Event Agenda »

This working web cast goes beyond publishing the retention schedule on the intranet to getting people within the business units to take active ownership of their records to make compliance with retention policies “business as usual” as opposed to nobody’s business. Training, motivating, and tapping into existing pools of interest will be elements of group discussion.

CGOC Webcast
May 23, 2006

This working web cast will discuss the challenges in global retention programs given the complexities of the international regulatory environment. With diverse business unit needs and conflicting privacy rules in various geographies, the session focuses on how to have classification schemes and retention schedules that are useful and relevant to the business without creating chaos for program managers. Specific case studies will be presented for group discussion.

CGOC Webcast
April 25, 2006

This working web cast discusses the scope, completeness, purpose, and teeth in a global retention policy; how far should the policy go and what mandate should it carry? Several models will be offered and compared. Policy intent and application are critical elements for the group discussion.

CGOC Webcast
March 28, 2006

The Annual CGOC Summit Sets the Tone for the Year
Each January, CGOC kicks off the year with a Summit of stakeholders on retention and preservation. The 2006 Summit will go soup to nuts: from retention programs and strategies, to preservation processes and strategies. Subject matter experts from leading corporations and law firms will present their knowledge, and in-depth roundtables and a reception will offer the opportunity to engage in active conversation with industry peers. This year’s Summit features:

• Magistrate Judge Ronald J. Hedges discussing whether the Zubulake case sets the benchmark
  
• Implications of the new Federal rules and the proposed NCSC guidelines from Mayer Brown
  
• Citigroup’s strategy for global retention management
  
• Collection protocols and management with Skadden Arps
  
• Benchmarking tools to establish your litigation readiness with LECG
  
• Robust preservation processes with Wilson Sonsini and PSS Systems
  
• Halliburton exploring when to manage e-discovery in house and when to call in an outside expert
  

CGOC 2006 Summit
January 26-27, 2006
New York, NY

This session tackled the role IT should play in collecting information and how to delegate without abdicating control. Modern monitoring approaches were discussed.

CGOC Discovery Lunch Series
October 2005

Foremost legal experts offered their perspectives on how to ensure that you're effectively and efficiently meeting your business, legal and governance obligations — today and in the future.

CGOC 2005 Summit
January 27-28, 2005
New York, NY

New California rules require companies to implement security procedures to protect the information of their clients. For organizations with broad customer bases, the new law effectively imposes a national standard on how personal information is retained and managed. Lisa Sotto, partner at Hunton & Williams and practice leader for their Information Privacy and Retention Management Practice, reviewed the rules and offered best practices that you can apply at your company.

CGOC Webcast
November 3, 2004

When creating an effective record retention program, the first tenet is to create a policy that is is descriptive and not aspirational. Incorporating appropriate policies and procedures to deal with legal holds and rising standards in this area is the second tenet. Kevin laid out the 1-2-3's of program design.

As counsel to the Complex Mass Torts/Insurance Litigation Department of Skadden, Arps, Kevin has a broad range of litigation and corporate experience. He has helped defend major insurance companies in environmental insurance coverage actions in numerous jurisdictions, has defended and advised clients in corporate, federal securities, insurance and environmental matters. He is Vice Chair of the Board of Bar Examiners of the Delaware Supreme Court, and a mediator and arbitrator in the Superior Court in Delaware; he is also active in the Delaware Bar Association.

CGOC Webcast
September 21, 2004

The IT choices your company makes for retention, storage, outsourcing and even voice mail can increase your legal risks. Find out what your exposure is and best retention practices to reduce those risks.

CGOC Webcast
June 9, 2004

Get expert advice on what to do to ensure that your retention program helps you rather than hurts you. Darryl will share actual examples of policies, testimony, and cases to highlight the hazards.

CGOC Webcast
May 19, 2004

Learn effective models for achieving your governance and compliance goals, complete with best practices for developing retention programs that mitigate risk and help you avoid common mistakes and pitfalls.

CGOC Executive Breakfast
April 21, 2004
Boston, MA

Get frank insights on your risks and obligations for electronic records management, and find out if your retention policy will work for you or against you.

CGOC Webcast
March 25, 2004
10:00am - 11:00am PST

Discover emerging practices for records inventory and retention policy design being used by Tyco and Pfizer to meet evolving regulations and risk management goals.

CGOC Webcast
Feb 25, 2004
10am - 11am PST