COURSE DESCRIPTION: Perhaps you think you’ll never get sued and that “e-discovery” is a non-issue for you. Think again. You could get sued. And if a plaintiff’s attorney says, “I’d like you to produce all emails, instant message threads, Skype chats, social media transcripts and other forms of electronic communication for a given employee, you’re going to have to do it.
And, by the way, you’re going to have to do it fast.
Thanks to the 2006 revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), judges expect all companies, big and small, to manage their electronically stored information (ESI) effectively. Companies must:
- be prepared to discuss how and where they store their ESI early in the pretrial proceedings
- preserve their ESI in a compliant manner and produce it with specified metadata intact
- produce their ESI quickly, according to discovery timelines.
Non-compliance can lead to fines, sanctions, executive liability, and other damage to your business and your bottom line.
In this session, attorney John Isaza will:
- Review federal E-Discovery rules and the resulting need for “legal holds” to avoid sanctions
- Describe state-of-the-art Records & Information Management (RIM) plans, policies and procedures
- Demonstrate how plaintiff’s attorneys use the “ESI sword” to win cases against companies
- Explain how judges respond when companies are unable to quickly produce ESI
- Explain why backing up information isn’t enough (it needs to be archived)
- Discuss the key changes HR executives have had to adapt to in recent years
- Analyze several recent cases that involve e-discovery and records retention
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: John Isaza, Esq. is a California-based attorney and partner of Howett Isaza Law Group, LLP, an international records and information management (RIM) consulting practice and law firm. Mr. Isaza is widely recognized as one of the country’s foremost experts on electronic discovery, the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and other RIM issues. Mr. Isaza has developed information management and records retention programs for many Fortune 100 companies. Mr. Isaza served as Arbitrator for the Los Angeles Superior Court System. He attended Boston College Law School, where he served as Editor of the International Law Review.
 HRCI CERTIFICATION: This program has been approved for 1.0 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage.
 MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE: We're so confident you'll get what you want out of this conference that we'll refund your full fee if you’re not satisfied. It's risk-free.
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