Press Releases

CMS Wire, October 22, 2008 - CGOC, a practitioners’ forum focused on records retention and preservation practices, and Huron Consulting Group, a provider of financial and operational consulting services, released the results of a “first-of-its-kind survey” on legal holds and eDiscovery practices. The survey focused on corporate practices for preserving information in litigation, identifying custodians of data, communicating legal holds, interviewing custodians and collecting potentially relevant data.

Findlaw.com, October 2008 - Especially since the late-2006 e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, companies are grappling with the appropriate scope of legal holds and the methods to identify, retain and harvest information that reasonably may be relevant to actual or potential litigation. Appropriate to the times, CGOC and the Huron Consulting Group have just released the results of a survey on legal holds and the e-discovery practices of 1,000 global companies. While software solutions appear to help when it comes to the increasing burdens of legal holds, companies should not let the human assistance of counsel get lost in the shuffle.

Mountain View, CA and Chicago, IL - October 15, 2008 – CGOC, a practitioners’ forum focused on records retention and preservation practices, and Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of financial and operational consulting services, today released the results of a first-of-its-kind survey on legal holds and e-discovery practices of Global 1000 companies.

Mountain View, CA, July 31, 2008 — CGOC, a corporate practitioners’ forum uniquely focused on retention, preservation, and privacy, announced the launch of the CGOC Professional Network, a new networking site that provides the CGOC community with virtual interaction, and a new state-of-the-art research portal.

January 3, 2008
The CGOC, a practitioners community focused on retention and preservation, announced that its 4th annual Summit will be held January 23 through 25 in Palm Springs, California. This year’s theme is “Knowledge is Power, Ignorance is Expensive.” Corporate thought leaders will share how they’ve used new-found knowledge of holds, custodians, and retention practices to reduce cost and risk and to increase the quality of information they provide other company executives. (Information Governance Engagement Area)

Mountain View, CA — January 2, 2008 — The CGOC, a practitioners community focused on retention and preservation, announced that its 4th annual Summit will be held January 23 through 25 in Palm Springs, California. This year’s theme is “Knowledge is Power, Ignorance is Expensive.” Corporate thought leaders will share how they’ve used new-found knowledge of holds, custodians, and retention practices to reduce cost and risk and to increase the quality of information they provide other company executives.

Mountain View, CA — November 14, 2007 — CGOC today announced that Tom Lahiff, former Assistant General Counsel, Litigation, of Citigroup, will author a blog on retention and preservation topics, which will be published on the CGOC web site. The CGOC is a practitioner’s community forum founded by President and CEO of PSS Systems, Deidre Paknad, to provide legal and compliance executives insight and information on the intersection of retention and preservation processes.

Mountain View, CA - October 24, 2007 - PSS Systems, pioneers of legal holds and retention management software, announced a new CGOC forum specifically designed to address the significant responsibilities of outside counsel for their corporate clients' legal holds and e-discovery procedures. The CGOC Sidebar is an adjunct forum to the CGOC corporate retention and legal holds practitioners community to focus on the burdens on outside counsel and the tensions between these responsibilities and corporate operational needs. Several high profile cases in 2007 underscore the responsibilities of outside counsel for their clients' practices and make this an extremely timely dialogue.

Mountain View, CA — September 25, 2007 — CGOC today announced that it will co-host a series of workshops for corporate litigation executives and discovery managers entitled Data Source Synchronization for Preservation, Discovery, and Retention. The day-long workshops will be held in Chicago, Houston, and New York to help practitioners across Fortune 500 companies who are working on mapping data sources in their enterprise in an effort to better prepare for litigation and new disclosure obligations. These efforts vary considerably from company to company and may even increase the risks of spoliation companies face.

August 24, 2007
This interactive program is designed to educate in-house counsel, executives, paralegals, and IT professionals about e-discovery, the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and steps that they should be taking now to achieve litigation readiness and reduce liability exposure. Through a series of videotaped vignettes, participants can see what to do and what not to do with regard to electronic records in litigation. A series of 5-10 minute vignettes provide snapshots throughout the life of a case, from first filing and service of a complaint all the way through trial. The scenarios and mistakes made in the sample case were drawn from real life examples.

Mountain View, California, January 17, 2006 — Magistrate Judge Ronald Hedges (New Jersey) along with executives from Citigroup and Halliburton Company and Zubulake attorney Jim Batson headline at the CGOC 2006 Summit, “From Retention to Preservation: Soup to Nuts,” January 26-27, 2006 in New York City. They join other subject matter experts from Skadden Arps, Mayer Brown, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and PricewaterhouseCoopers as well as corporate attendees and CGOC members during two days of active discussion, roundtables, and panels. The annual CGOC Summit, held each January, highlights the retention, discovery, and litigation issues and strategies that will be pivotal in the coming year.

Mountain View, California, August 17, 2005 — The Compliance, Governance & Oversight Council (CGOC) today announced the CGOC Discovery Lunch Series focused on essential topics for retention and litigation practitioners. The working lunches will be co-hosted by the prestigious law firms of Skadden, Arps, Hunton & Williams, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and Connolly Bove, and moderated by subject matter experts from these firms.

Palo Alto, California, June 13, 2005 — The Compliance, Governance & Oversight Council (CGOC), a resource for legal and compliance executives, today announced the CGOC Executive Breakfast titled, “The New Standards in Discovery: Implications of the Zubulake and Coleman Verdicts.” Speakers include Gideon Schor, Director of Litigation for the Americas at Credit Suisse First Boston, Adam Cohen, a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and co-author of "Electronic Discovery: Law and Practice," and Deidre Paknad, founder of CGOC and President and CEO of PSS Systems, Inc.

Palo Alto, California, January 12, 2005 — The Compliance, Governance & Oversight Council (CGOC) today announced the CGOC 2005 Executive Summit, the first in a series of executive events to be held in 2005, created to help executives meet the ever-increasing challenges of information policy management, electronic discovery, and litigation risk. The invitation-only CGOC 2005 Executive Summit takes place January 27-28 in New York City, and will feature the nation’s foremost legal experts who will offer their perspectives on how to ensure organizations are effectively and efficiently meeting their business, legal and governance obligations — today and in the future.

Palo Alto, California, February 24, 2004 — PSS Systems, Inc., a pioneer in document policy solutions that span the information lifecycle, today launched the Compliance, Governance & Oversight Council (CGOC), an independent forum designed to provide expert insight as well as strategic and tactical advice to corporate executives responsible for enhancing and enforcing their corporate governance practices.