CGOC Summit 2008
4th Annual CGOC Summit: Executive Summit or Executive Retreat?
It has been a year of tremendous change and challenge for most corporations. Event-driven litigation teams instituted new processes, leapt from Excel spreadsheets to sophisticated software tools, defined new roles to address new requirements, and pushed senior attorneys to get on the same page. Their counterparts in compliance and retention realized that modernizing records management may bear tremendous fruit, but requires substantive program re-examination and re-definition. As always, the Summit brings together corporate practitioners leading these efforts in the world’s largest and most successful companies.
Now that we know what we know, what can we do with the knowledge?
This year’s Summit will step back from tactical changes and focus on harnessing benefits, leveraging the power that flows from new processes and new knowledge. With both formal sessions and informal gatherings the dialogue is sure to be invaluable.
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| Wednesday January 23 |
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Kathy Harris, SVP, Merrill Lynch
A proactive analysis of key changes over the last 12 months, benchmarks for what companies should have in place now for legal holds and discovery processes, and the opportunities in retention and discovery that the future holds.
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Tom Lahiff, former AGC of Citigroup and Tom Lidbury, Partner, Mayer Brown
Determining when litigation is reasonably anticipated continues to be a challenge in large, complex companies. While fact specific, there are a number of circumstances that are consistent triggers for legal holds. Because your decision making will be scrutinized through the lens of hindsight, establishing the basis for you policies and decision making are essential to defending the choices made. This session will look at relevant cases, decision making challenges, and policy documentation issues.
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Ronald Hedges, former Magistrate Judge, Counsel, Nixon Peabody LLP
Legal holds and discovery processes are being tested with far greater frequency. Several landmark cases are changing the legal landscape and escalating the risks facing inside and outside counsel. Ron Hedges will discuss these key changes, their implications for legal holds and for disclosures to the court and adversaries.
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| Thursday January 24 |
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Deidre Paknad, President & CEO, PSS Systems
While most companies have focused this past year on updating their legal holds process, a few strategic leaders have begun to use the facts that result from these process enhancements to drive better business results, more predictability for their executive peers, and more precision in their holds. Those that haven’t been able to increase predictability and precision are finding that the business is struggling from over-preservation and lack of predictability on discovery costs. This session will offer methods for leveraging the “facts of the matters” to increase control and accountability.
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Matthew Cohen, Director, AlixPartners, LLC
Legacy data is a pernicious problem for most corporations whether its paper files at offsite storage, back up tapes, terminated employee data, or even collected evidence files piling up on file servers. Dispositioning the data can reduce costs and risks of overlooking data, but requires facts and substantiation. This session will provide a framework and model for inventorying legacy data, establishing the fact based needed to determine what can be retired, and documenting the process.
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Kathy Hogy, Director, Legal Discovery, First Data Corp.
This session will provide a case study on the path forward from instituting a robust legal holds and collections process to more strategic retention management procedures in a company with diverse data sources and a complex litigation environment – it can and should be done!
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Kevin Brady, Partner, Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP
Retention programs are a critical part of reducing cost and can actually reduce the risk of discovery non-compliance. The courts don’t view all retention practices as legitimate or equal and this session will review relevant case law and offer guidance on legitimate and illegitimate practices.
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Harry Pugh, Global Program Manager for Records Management, Citigroup
Citigroup began its global retention program several years ago for risk management and compliance purposes and today it has one of the very few effective enterprise retention management programs in operation. Over the past year, the program has driven strategic benefits by enabling the company to disposition legacy data, normalize data management, and drive out waste.
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Eric Saltzman, Esq., CFO, PSS Systems
Virtually every major corporation uses automated software to predict sales based on how deals move through the various stages of a sales cycle. By using past fallout rates at various points in a sales cycle, the "sales funnel" is powerful and accurate tool for forecasting both revenue and cost of sales. This panel will discuss the methodology for creating a "litigation funnel" using the same probability based techniques applied to sales forecasting. Corporate legal teams have a wealth of data on the likelihood of matters progressing through various stages of litigation, the volume of potentially discoverable information associated with various types of matters and the costs associated with culling, reviewing and producing information. Using this data in conjunction with a dedicated tool for managing the "litigation funnel" will yield better predictability on discovery costs, improved visibility on the timing and nature of those costs, and, through enhanced visibility, the ability to reduce expenses.
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Kathy Harris, SVP, Merrill Lynch; Ian Katz, Senior Counsel, CIBC; Tom Lahiff, former AGC, Citigroup; Jim Daley, Partner, Redgrave, Daley, Regan & Wagner
Litigation leaders from inside and outside counsel will posit their views of discovery in the future. What will be managed internally and what will be outsourced? Will there be less information or more? Will systems be smarter at managing holds and providing data? How ill leading companies invest their time and money?
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| Friday January 25 |
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Lorrie Luellig, Shareholder, Ryley Carlock & Applewhite
This session focuses on how to transform legacy paper records schedules to a modern retention program that addresses retention lifecycles for information across electronic data sources. Records coordinator roles and responsibilities, engaging IT and synchronizing with legal holds are all discussed as essential program components.
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Jim Mitchell, Huron Consulting
For most companies, preservation practices have changed substantially over 2007 and process improvements still top the litigation department agenda for 2008. Find out what practices have become standard across industries and what practices are likely to emerge over 2008.
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Kathy Hogy, Director, Legal Discovery, First Data Corp.; Lorrie Luellig, Shareholder, Ryley Carlock & Applewhite; Harry Pugh, Global Program Manager for Records Management, Citigroup
Legal and operations leaders posit their views of information retention management in the future. Will we be able to save less data? Will retention lifecycles be enforceable? Will leading companies invest in curing “cancer” or just treating its symptoms?
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