January 27-28, 2006, New York City

8:30 – 9am

Welcome and Introduction over Light Breakfast

9am– 10am

Setting the Preservation Benchmark

Magistrate Judge Ronald J. Hedges

Magistrate Judge Ronald J. Hedges (New Jersey) provides a view from the bench on case law and judicial expectation for how your company manages its preservation and production processes.  He addresses when to "think digital", discovery rules, and suggests methods for avoiding problems.  A concise and complete workbook authored by Judge Hedges entitled Discovery of Digital Information will be provided.

10am – 11am

Global Retention Management

Harry Pugh, Citigroup

There is no question that preservation best practices start with retention best practices.  Citigroup exec Harry Pugh discusses strategic, sustainable approaches to global retention management at one of the world's largest companies.

11am - Noon

Benchmarking your Litigation Readiness

Carmen Oveissi, PSS Systems

Discovery expert Carmen Oveissi presents a self-assessment framework for evaluating your preservation and discovery processes.  She will provide a best practices model for litigation readiness and a toolkit you can use for internal analysis of your processes and preparedness. 

Noon – 1pm

Networking Lunch courtesy of Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

1pm– 2pm

Anticipating Litigation

Kevin Brady, Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP and
James Batson, Liddle & Robinson LLP

Your obligation to preserve information starts before actual litigation at the point when litigation can be reasonably anticipated -- but what's reasonable and what constitutes "anticipated"? Get perspective from experts Kevin Brady and Zubulake counsel James Batson on what the triggers are for anticipating litigation, what monitors make sense and ways to manage the challenges this presents in large organizations.

2pm– 3pm

Hold Notices & Reminders

Meredith Kotler, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and
Regan Adams, Navigant Consulting

This session will outline the essential elements of hold notices, timing, reminders, and the audit trail; given the wide diversity of practices, an open discussion with attendees on their notice protocols will follow.

3pm– 4pm

Collecting Relevant Documents, Emails, and Objects

Matt Cohen, Skadden Arps, LLP; Mark Ricca, New York Community Bank;
and Mark Kindy, FTI Consulting, Inc.

The challenges of collecting data continue to mount -- as do the types and diversity of data in discussion.  This panel of experts outline the steps that must be taken to preserve and collect the data, processes and approaches for ensuring preservation and chain of custody, and best practices for managing complex collection efforts.

4pm – 5pm

New Expectations for Process Integrity & Efficiency

Gideon Schor, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and
Deidre Paknad, PSS Systems

Gideon Schor of Wilson Sonsini and Deidre Paknad of PSS Systems discuss the integrity of in-house preservation and collection processes and answer key questions on what kind of transparency and control in-house and outside counsel need, whether the standard of "reasonable" is changing, and what some companies are doing to improve process rigor and efficiency. 

8am - 8:30am

Breakfast courtesy of Navigant Consulting

8:30am - 9:15am

Implications of the New Federal Rules and the Proposed NCSC Guidelines

Thomas Allman, Mayer Brown

Hear how these changes will impact the preservation of information, litigation holds, and the responsibility of counsel to learn about their client’s data storage, management systems, and policies at the earliest stages of litigation.

9:15am – 10:15am

Drivers of Change: Outlook for 2006 - 2010

Michael Clark, EDDix

Find out where your peers and competitors are investing to better manage retention and litigation – what motivates them, what benefits do they get and what does it mean to you in 2006.

10:15am – 10:30am

Networking Break

10:30am – 11:30am

Next Level Retention Management

Marilyn Bota, Bluestone Process Dynamics

Retention expert and six sigma quality leader Marilyn Bota picks up where she left off in Summit 2005, taking records retention from policy to automation and consistent enforcement.

11:45am – 1pm

Working Lunch with PwC -- Getting People to Play Along

James Santangelo, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Part of counsel's responsibility is ensuring the company and its employees meet their retention and preservation obligations, but garnering business participation and support can be difficult.   James Santangelo presents program and change management approaches that can help you drive the critical compliance changes with business support. 

1pm – 2pm

Corporate Participation in E-Discovery

James Wright, Halliburton Company

Risk and cost are both significant factors in e-discovery.  Jim Wright of Halliburton discusses when to manage discovery in house and when to call in an outside expert, including the essential skills and knowledge insiders and outside experts must have.

2pm – 3:30pm

Roundtable Sessions (Concurrent)

Enterprise Retention Management – Led by practice experts from Citigroup and Genworth, this roundtable will discuss the challenges of enterprise-level retention programs, including the merits of one retention schedule for all versus variations to meet the business needs, approaches to developing classification schema, training and communications approaches that work, and other practical challenges.

Collection Management – Led by counsel with both in-house and outside litigation expertise, this roundtable will address the merits and timing of employee self-collection, effective collection delegation and management, sharing discovery responsibility with IT and records staff, and other practice issues.