9:00 Co-Chair’s Opening Remarks

09:15 Dealing With The New Normal: You’ve Survived The Downturn...Now What?

• Investing in staff or business process automation: If the billable hour is dead, what are the alternatives, including commoditisation
• Is now the time to catch up on postponed products or embrace new technologies? Software as a Service, ‘cloud’ computing, outsourcing
• Microsoft with everything: Windows 7, Office 2010, Sharepoint and MOSS - and then CRM, DMS and PMS ?
• What the legal tech vendors have been doing over the past two years: The winners and losers

Charles Christian
Editor
Legal Technology Insider

09:45 Managing Legal Technology Through A Recession And Beyond: Approaches To Sharpening Your Operating Discipline

• Making the most of the technologies you have
• Investing in a downturn: Identifying value and opportunity from use of technology
• Why identifying ROI is more important than ever: uncovering the indirect benefits of legal technology
• Enhancing your firm’s performance by gaining greater visibility of your business
• How has the credit crunch made firms change the way they deliver services to clients?

Damien Behan
IT Director
Brodies

11:00 Information Governance And Compliance: Multinational Records Management At UBS

• Defining a governance structure and defining roles and responsibilities
  • Working with multiple stakeholders, policies, IT systems and processes
  • What should be your governance structure for records management after you have implemented your Records Management Policy?
• Determining the right records retention period for your company
  • Should you harmonise your records retention period?
  • Where should your data be archived? Centrally or locally?
  • Should your records management policy also apply to legacy records?

Philipp Raether
Legal & Compliance – Office of the COO
UBS Investment Bank

11:45 eDiscovery from a Practical Perspective: 2010

• Compare the eDiscovery process from a practical perspective vs. a theoretical perspective
• Real-world case studies of how organizations are performing elements of the eDiscovery process internally
• Practical approaches to bringing eDiscovery in-house

Brian Karney
COO
AccessData

13:30 Implementing A Successful Electronic Archiving Policy And System

• Co-ordinating the differing laws, regulations, professions, cultures
• Federate employees and harmonising practices
• Selection of the most appropriate technology that will fit all records types and allow a consolidated e-archiving strategy with an evidentiary status
• Email retention management: An archiving or an IS/IT issue? email archiving as part an overall records management programme

Huguette Bessard
Global Electronic Archiving Expert
sanofi-aventis

14:15 Conducting International Investigations: Managing Cross Border E-Disclosure And Data Transfers

• e-disclosure for multinational organisations: International privacy, security, disclosure and discovery
• Understanding privacy and privilege in the US, EU and Asia: What’s new...and what’s on the horizon
• ESI preparation and preservation: Multi-jurisdictional considerations
• International data collection, processing and reviews

Cynthia Jackson
Partner
Baker & McKenzie LLP

15:30 E-Disclosure Litigation Readiness Planning

• Managing e-disclosure as part of your overall corporate governance data strategy
• Weighing up the e-disclosure expenditure vs. other business expenditures
• Common challenges corporate companies face with regards to international litigation cases
• Implementation: What investments give you the best return and deliver the greatest impact

Theresa Beaumont
Discovery Counsel
Google Inc.

16:15 Managing, Controlling And Discovering Information Across The Enterprise

• Managing disparate repositories: On-site or offsite?
• Integrating all records – paper, email and electronic – into a scalable enterprise-wide system
• Enforcing records retention policies: What is the most effective approach to enforce, track and audit compliance
• Records lifecycle management strategies

17:00 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks And Conference Adjourns