eTERA Consulting will present a free webinar on the benefits of forensic accounting firms partnering with a data and technology management company.

The webinar will be Thursday, July 23, at 1 p.m. Central time.

“Many times, projects that begin in a forensics practice end in attorney review,” the company said in a release. “By creating a close partner relationship between your forensics practice and a data and technology management company, you can create results that include increased revenue for you, lower costs for your clients, and a better relationship with the legal team. This relationship can provide custom solutions that fit seamlessly with your current forensics services. Enjoy the benefits of the latest legal technology and data experts without the cost of bringing them in-house.”

The release continues:

As a leading data and technology management company, eTERA Consulting has successfully worked with forensic accounting firms, including the 11th largest in the country. This webinar will provide you with important business information about the following:

• The link between forensics and litigation technology
• Why partner with a data and technology management company
• Why eTERA Consulting is the best partner for your team
• The Electronic Discovery Reference Model services that can grow your practice
• Examples of how this relationship has benefited partners and clients
• The various benefits you will receive as an eTERA Consulting All1ance One Partner
• How to get started as an All1ance One eTERA Partner

A current All1ance One Partner will also share his experiences to-date including why he chose to join, the easy process in becoming a partner, and the benefits behind the program.

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Venio Systems will present a complimentary webinar July 16 at 1 p.m. Eastern time fon eDiscovery Defensibility. The webinar will focus on the risks of spoliation and data loss during the processing and review phases of eDiscovery that get very little attention in the eDiscovery press.

1. Processing Extraction Levels
2. Multiple Processing Applications
3. Technology Selection
4. Human Participation
5. Keyword Searching

The discussion will be led by Babs Deacon, Venio’s Vice President of Training & Education. She will be joined by Chuck Kellner, Senior Vice President at D4 LLC, and Ellen “Elle” Pyle, Discovery Counsel at McDermott Will & Emery.

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Payoneer will present a complimentary webinar on the key components that a business needs to make up a risk and compliance program.

The webinar, titled “Risky Business? The Top 4 Risks that Online Marketplaces Must Consider and How to Address Them,” will be Wednesday, July 15, beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern time.

“This webinar is a must-watch for finance, legal, risk and compliance professionals from all types of online marketplaces, regardless of the products or services you sell.” Payoneer says on its website.

The event will cover:

• The key elements of strategic, reputational, fraud and compliance risk and why they are important to every online marketplace
• The legal requirements that apply to online marketplaces of all sizes, whether you’re starting out or already leading your category
• How do you build a risk management program that keeps your marketplace safe and allows you to focus on growing globally
• Your essential checklist when making sure your payment provider has a risk and compliance program

Two of the industry’s leading experts with experience in building risk and compliance programs for marketplaces in the freelance, ecommerce, travel and other verticals will be available for a live Q&A session.

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Exari presents an on-demand complimentary webinar about how contract visibility will give you the answers to the questions your CEO should be asking.

In a release, Exari said:

The Hub is all about getting organized.

Imagine your CEO comes to you with a question about which contracts carry the most risk. Or asks you to prepare for an M&A event that afternoon. Pretty scary, right?

In this 45-minute live webinar, Exari Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Jamie Wodetzki, explain the ins and outs of the Hub and what it could mean for your business.

Because not knowing how to respond to the CEO is scary. But not knowing what’s in your contracts is even scarier.

The presenter is Jamie Wodetzki, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Exari.

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Scott & Scott will present a complimentary webinar discussing traditional and newly developed software licensing models, principal concerns about current licensing models, types of license agreements, and primary causes of exposure in enterprise-level software audits.

The webinar will be Tuesday, June 30, beginning at 11 a.m. Central time.

Software licensing options for large enterprises have evolved substantially over the past several years. Businesses today have more options and flexibility to meet their software needs, Scott & Scott says. However, with that flexibility often comes complex software asset management (SAM) obligations. Licensing models that were previously unavailable absent extensive negotiations are now regularly offered. IT teams must equip themselves to recognize the unique challenges involved with the various options in order to avoid unnecessary licensing exposure.

In this presentation attendees will learn:

• Differences between traditional and newly developed licensing models
• How to handle principal concerns with current licensing models
• Types of license agreements
• How to reduce exposure in enterprise-level software audits
• Challenges to SAM caused by new licensing model

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Microsystems will present two complimentary webinars in June: the DocXtools Training Webinar Series on June 24 and the Patent Companion Overview on June 25.

The DocXtools webinar will:

• Identify the problems that occur when moving a document to .docx format
• Address the unique process involved in moving to Word 2013
• Step-by-step demonstration on Document Conversion

The 60-minute event will be Wednesday, June 24, beginning at 10 a.m. Central time.

Participants in the Patent Companion webinar will:

• Learn about all of the key patent prosecution features in Patent Companion including: Element References, Similar Spelling, Antecedent Basis, and more
• Learn how the Patent Companion Word Trends™ feature can help you select words that will give your patent application stronger language
• Discover how IP and patent lawyers are incorporating Patent Companion into their workflow to ensure the highest quality documents are being sent to clients and submitted for approval

The Patent Companion event will be Thursday, June 25, at 10 a.m. Central time.

Global Organization EY has posted a complimentary webinar that explores how companies can transform and prosper by focusing on enhancing financial, operational and portfolio resilience needed to weather an extended period of volatile energy prices.

Presenters are Andy Brogan, EY Global Oil & Gas Transactions Leader; Barry Munro, the leader for EY Oil & Gas industry initiatives in Canada and a senior vice president of EY Orenda Corporate Finance based in Calgary; and Axel Preiss, a Senior Partner in the Advisory practice and  the Global Oil & Gas Advisory Leader.

Moderator is Deborah Byers, Managing Partner of the EY Houston office and also a the U.S. Oil & Gas Leader.

Mayer Brown has posted presentation slides and video from its recent webinar about increasing the value of sourcing contracts by linking the supplier’s profitability with how quickly and how well the supplier advances your business objectives.

The free webinar is a part of the firm’s Business & Technology Sourcing Webinar Series.

“Incentives can even be used for ‘stretch goals,’ where suppliers would be unable to commit to performance,” the firm says on its website.

Mayer Brown partners Brad Peterson and Linda Rhodes talk about supplier behavior and discuss how to use contract terms to drive exceptional supplier performance. Topics include:

• Use general terms to align incentives for success;
• Set and enforce service levels to drive exceptional performance;
• Implement milestone and other key incentives for projects; and
• Leverage liability provisions and termination rights to drive performance.

View the slides and the video.

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP presents a complimentary MCLE webinar, “The Two Faces of Establishing Patentability of a New Chemical,” featuring Fitch Even attorney James A. Zak. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, June 24, 2015, at 9 am PDT / 10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 noon EDT.

To be a patentable invention, a chemical compound must be new and non-obvious. To establish that the compound is non-obvious, a lead compound is selected in the prior art, and the new compound is compared to the lead compound to determine if the new compound is merely an obvious modification. A lead compound is selected by one of two methods, which differ with respect to the rationale used to identify the lead compound and how allegations of obviousness can be refuted. Given the critical role of the lead compound to the non-obviousness determination, when attempting to patent a new compound, one must be mindful of how the lead compound will be selected.

Topics will include:
• Methods of selecting a lead compound: structural similarity and rational selection
• Assumptions made based on structural similarity and how to overcome them
• Why what is believed about a rationally selected lead compound is more important than its real properties
• How to make others select the lead compound of your choosing

Speaker James A. Zak chiefly focuses his practice on the intersection of intellectual property and FDA law, often working with startups in FDA-regulated industries to develop and align their IP and FDA market approval strategies while simultaneously developing robust patent portfolios.

CLE credit has been approved for California and Illinois and is pending in Nebraska. Other states may also award CLE credit upon attendee request. There is no fee to attend, but please note registration is required.

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A one-hour complimentary webinar from eTERA will provide executives and their legal teams with best practices for managing document review projects, regardless of size and scope.

The webinar will be Wednesday, June 17, 2015, from 11 am to noon EDT.

In a release, eTERA said that document review, in many respects, is considered to be the most fundamental, costly and time-consuming aspect of the eDiscovery process. With the complexity and volume of today’s data only increasing, it is imperative for organizations to utilize best practices in managing the document review process, which will result in cost savings, increased efficiencies, enhanced decision making abilities and defensibility.

The release continues:

eTERA’s Ashish Prasad, Esq., Vice President and General Counsel, Todd Haley, Vice President of Business Intelligence, and Vazantha Meyers, Esq., Director of Managed Review, will discuss the following key topics:

• Development of the document review team
• How to ensure quality control
• Targeted keyword searches
• Review reporting and key metrics
• Avoiding several common pitfalls
• Privilege review
• Technology Assisted Review (“TAR”) including threading, near-duplication, context and predictive coding

Speakers:

Ashish Prasad
Vice President and General Counsel
eTERA Consulting

Ashish is a leading expert on the law and practice of eDiscovery. He is a former Litigation Partner and Chair of the Electronic Discovery and Records Management Practice at Mayer Brown LLP, the author of several treatises and dozens of articles on discovery topics, and the teacher of hundreds of legal education seminars over the past decade on topics of eDiscovery.

Todd Haley
Vice President of Business Intelligence
eTERA Consulting

Todd is an expert on the technology of eDiscovery. He is the former Chief Technology Officer of a major law firm, and has over two decades of experience managing the technology, business process and other aspects of eDiscovery and data management engagements.

Vazantha Meyers, Esq.
Director of Managed Review
eTERA Consulting

 Vazantha has extensive experience in all matters of eDiscovery.  She worked as a litigation associate at Mayer Brown LLP in the Electronic Discovery and Records Management Group, contributed to the Practicing Law Institute treatise Electronic Discovery Deskbook: Law and Practice (2009), and has written many articles and presentations on various topics related to eDiscovery.  

To register today for this complimentary webinar, please click here.

For additional information, please contact: Cassey Elder, Manager, Public Relations at marketing@eteraconsulting.com.

Feel free to forward this email to others in your organization that would benefit from this complimentary webinar.

About eTERA Consulting

eTERA Consulting, Built by the clients, for the clients™ is an award-winning leader in data and technology management providing innovative solutions to help clients overcome the high costs of managing large volumes of data, electronic discovery and content searching. As an international consultancy, eTERA offers five key services across the Electronic Discovery Reference Model including Early Information Assessment®, Forens1cs One℠, 1ntelligent One™, Rev1ew One™ and Opt1mum One.® These services help clients to proactively identify and analyze data early in the process allowing for significant data reduction, enhanced decision-making abilities, significant savings on eDiscovery costs and defensibility. eTERA Consulting provides clients with the necessary swat-team of experts needed to effectively manage litigation, government investigations and regulatory matters. eTERA Consulting utilizes software tools verified by the Gartner Group and is SSAE-16 certified to ensure the protection of client data. Headquartered in Washington, DC, and with offices in Chicago, Brussels, London and Paris, eTERA Consulting has served the legal industry since 2004. eTERA Consulting was selected by the Legal Times in 2014 as the Best End-to-End Litigation Consulting Firm and in 2013 as the Best Data and Technology Management eDiscovery Provider. eTERA Consulting has also been recognized by the National Law Journal for four consecutive years as the nation’s top End-to-End eDiscovery Company.

Tom Allman, Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati

DTI presents an on-demand webinar featuring Tom Allman, a former general counsel and well-known student of the civil rulemaking process, in a discussion on how the new federal rules expected to go into effect Dec. 1 of this year will impact e-discovery obligations and strategy.

Tom Allman chaired both the Sedona Conference and the Rules Committee of Lawyers for Civil Justice. He participated in the Duke Conference Panel and has followed the rulemaking process resulting in the current rules. Currently, he serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati and speaks and writes extensively on the topic. His paper on the rules amendments is regarded as a classic source on the topic.

The other presenter, Samantha Green, serves as e-discovery counsel for DTI and has more than a dozen years of litigation and consulting experience. At DTI, she serves as a subject matter expert on all aspects of eDiscovery and advises clients on strategy. Prior to joining DTI, she was the eDiscovery attorney in Blank Rome’s New York City office. Prior to that, she worked on a variety of complex litigation matters and conducted in-house CLEs and training programs on eDiscovery topics for Moses & Singer’s New York office, after having been an attorney with Proskauer Rose.

Download the recording and slides.

Bridgeway Software Inc. will present a webinar titled “5 Ways Matter Management Can Transform Your Legal Department and Why e-Billing Alone is Not Enough” Wednesday, June 10, at noon CDT.

“From advanced collaboration to improved early case assessment and robust reporting to risk management, global corporations are leveraging the value of matter management beyond e-billing to gain a competitive advantage,” Bridgeway says.

Industry leaders at Mattel, MetLife and Mutual of Omaha will be presenters during this uniquely formatted Bridgeway University webcast, moderated by legal industry analyst Ari Kaplan.

Some of the topics include:

• Where matter management starts and e-billing ends
• The value of broad data and ways to apply metrics to streamline your law department
• How a centralized source of information can unify legal operations to reduce cost and increase efficiency
• Best practices for simplifying the complexities associated with running a modern legal department
• A roadmap for getting started

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In a new complimentary webinar posted by Tensoft Inc., Jeffrey Werner, Silicon Valley software revenue recognition expert and lecturer, discusses revenue recognition for services and contracts.

In the presentation, Werner talks about time and materials contracts and fixed fee contracts. He also discusses the percentage of completion method, the completed contract method, and the zero margin method among other ways of accounting for service and contract accounting projects for companies.

Watch the on-demand webinar or download the slides.

A free on-demand webinar hosted by NAVEX Global says one of the most effective ways to measure a compliance program is by analyzing data from internal reporting systems. But how can you know what is good or bad without context?

The firm compiled 2014 calendar year statistics from more than 4,600 company reporting systems for its annual Hotline Benchmark Report. Some of the key findings be surprising; for example, retaliation reports are up 125 percent since 2013.

NAVEX Global says the webinar is intended to help participants be able to use industry benchmarks to understand:

• Whether your anonymous ethics hotline/helpline is truly effective
• If you’re getting the right numbers and types of reports
• How to interpret hotline findings and put them to work in your compliance program
• What types of hotline data are best to use in board and executive reporting

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Gibson Dunn has posted a free webinar discussing practical approaches for building a robust compliance program that is risk-driven and integrated into the business.

“The extraordinary events of the past year, from international cybersecurity breaches to significant economic and trade sanction developments, emphasize the expansive array of challenges facing today’s compliance professionals,” the firm says on its website.

The presentation features new Gibson Dunn partner Lori Zyskowski, formerly Executive Counsel, Corporate, Securities & Finance at the General Electric Company, where she advised GE’s board of directors and senior management on corporate governance and securities law issues, and of counsel Daniel Chung, an experienced trial and appellate attorney who previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York where he investigated and prosecuted a wide range of complex federal criminal cases.

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D4, LLC , a national in eDiscovery managed services, litigation support, computer forensics and deposition solutions to law firms and corporations, will host a complimentary webinar on April 30 at 1 p.m. EDT. Attendees will learn how to justify an eDiscovery managed services agreement for law firms or corporations, and best practices for achieving stakeholder buy-in.

Panelists include Stuart B. Claire, J.D., Manager of Litigation Technology Support at Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney (an AMLAW 200 Firm); Jennifer Lemire, Senior Litigation Paralegal with The RiverStone Group (A Fairfax Company); and Elissa Livingston, J.D., Director of Project Management, D4. The event is part of D4’s webinar series aimed at educating legal and technology professionals on key topics around managed data and eDiscovery.

Panelists will share unique insights and advice based on their experience with the RFP process, different actions they may have taken had they known what to expect, and how they obtained approval from their stakeholders. The main goal is to impart relevant knowledge that can be applied in preparation for a managed services journey. Attendees will learn:

• Things to consider during the RFP process
• Potential pitfalls and how to avoid them
• How to justify a managed services model

“Finding an eDiscovery managed services vendor may not be a quick or easy process, but it doesn’t need to be painful,” said Martha MacPherson, Vice President of Marketing at D4. “Our experienced panelists will help answer questions about their journeys and offer advice on how to justify a managed services agreement.”

The webinar will take place on Thursday, April 30, 2015, 1-2 p.m. EDT.

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Hatmaker Law Group will present a one-hour webinar designed to teach supervisors how to recognize the signs of drug and alcohol abuse in the workplace.

The event is hosted by Susan K. Hatmaker, Esq. with guest speaker Eric Andersen, CSM SH&E Professional, with L.L. Andersen Consulting.

The webinar will be Wednesday, May  20, at 2 p.m. Central time.

Hatmaker Law Group conducts a monthly webinar series on various employment and labor law topics to provide up-to-date information to California employers, owners, managers, accountants, attorneys, and human resource professionals. The webinars are provided free of charge. HRCI and State Bar of California continuing education credit available.

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Willbros, McCarthy Tétrault and Duff & Phelps will present a free webinar on April 28 to discuss the 2015 oil and gas outlook in the midstream and downstream markets.

The webinar will begin at 11 a.m. Eastern time.

Panelists will discuss North American and European M&A activity and industry trends.

Topics will include:

• Oil prices and geopolitics
• Commodity price impact on M&A activity
• Long-term outlook in midstream and downstream markets

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Growing concern from lawmakers and increasing press on the relative lack of historic IRS attention on large partnerships is driving a shift toward an increased number of partnership-level audits with potential dramatic changes in partnership procedure on the horizon.

In a free on-demand webinar from Latham & Watkins, Washington, D.C. partners Miriam Fisher and Brian McManus and Houston partner Tim Fenn address the growing discussion around the increase in large partnership audit activity.

This presentation provides an overview of the key issues and legal considerations associated with an increase in such audits and how they are likely to affect the energy sector, the firm says on its website.

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