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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">TechAmerica Webinar - Legal Holds: What You Don’t Know Could Cost You</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2010-09-23T11:00:00" datetime="2010-09-23T11:00:00">Thursday, September 23, 2010 from 11am</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2010-09-23T12:00:00" datetime="2010-09-23T12:00:00">noon</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202392163'><span class='fn org p-name'>Webinar</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Do you know what makes an effective legal hold? Do you even know what a legal hold is? Attend this webinar by leading national expert Brad Harris to learn what your company needs to do now to be ready for its next legal hold.</p> <p>When the possibility of litigation or regulatory investigation arises, a legal hold is the first step a company must take as part of a duty to preserve potentially-relevant data. A legal hold is a notification directing employees to save pertinent information and data. Do it right and it’s a smooth process with little impact on your business. Do it wrong and it can severely compromise your case. No matter the size of your company, legal holds are a necessary reality.</p> <p>2010 has been a watershed year for cases involving legal holds with the Courts have been issuing monetary sanctions and declarations of “gross negligence” in numerous cases. This webcast will review recent legal hold cases starting with January’s Pension Committee v. Banc of America Securities, Rimkus v. Cammarata, Crown Castle v. Nudd Corp., Jones v. Bremen HS and other recent cases that are driving the need for making legal holds a priority in any litigation.</p> <p>This timely program will address:</p> <ul> <li>Recent directions and trends in case law</li> <li>Why legal holds are so important</li> <li>Best practices for recognizing and responding to a duty to preserve</li> </ul> <p>Who Should Attend? This webinar will have be important for the following: C-level executives, general counsels and in-house legal staffs, law firms, compliance executives and managers, regulatory executives and managers, and IT executives and managers.</p> <p>Presented by: - Elleanor Chin, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Elleanor Chin has extensive experience counseling clients on e-discovery and managing electronic discovery in complex litigation, including antitrust matters and class actions (more).</p> <ul> <li><p>Erica Couch, Senior Paralegal, Microsoft Corp. The primary focus of her work is managing discovery in civil litigation matters, including drafting and implementing document retention notices, as well as overseeing governmental inquiries to Microsoft Corporation (more).</p></li> <li><p>Brad Harris, Vice President of Legal Products, Zapproved, Inc., has more than 25 years of experience in the high technology and enterprise software sectors, including assisting Fortune 1000 companies enhance their e-discovery preparedness (more).</p></li> </ul> <p>Event Details: When: Thursday, September 23, 2010 Where: Webinar Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PDT Cost: Free for TechAmerica Members, $35 Nonmembers</p> <p>Register: (503) 624-5715 or at <a href="http://www.techamerica.org/legalholds">http://www.techamerica.org/legalholds</a></p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://www.techamerica.org/legalholds">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>