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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Hatmaker Law Group will present a complimentary webinar designed to help participants avoid claims arising from allegations that a business facility is not compliant under the American with Disabilities Act.

In a release, the firm writes, “Did you know that 40 percent of the ADA accessibility lawsuits filed in the U.S. are filed in the state of California? Have you taken the necessary steps to ensure compliance at your facility for your employees and patrons? Join us for this free one-hour webinar and learn the most common allegations charged against businesses, how to comply with the regulations and the possible extent of financial damages you can experience if found to be non-compliant, and what actions to take to avoid a claim.”

The webinar will be Wednesday, July 15, from noon until 1 p.m. Pacific time.

The guest speaker for the event will be Daniel Zoldak, Professional Engineer, Certified Access Specialist, of Lars Andersen & Associates.

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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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The Oil & Gas Journal will present its annual Midyear Forecast, a special report that uses first-half data to update projections that appeared in OGJ’s Annual Forecast and Review this past January.

The webinar will be on Friday, July 10, at 10 a.m. Central time.

Both reports project oil and gas markets through the end of the year worldwide, analyze demand product by product in the United States, and forecast drilling activity in the United States and Canada. The webcast also will discuss political developments important to the oil and gas industry.

Presenters will be OGJ Editor Bob Tippee and Senior Economics Editor Conglin Xu. They will summarize projections in key categories, note important changes from January’s forecasts, and examine reasons for the adjustments.

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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.

Equifax will present a webinar featuring a leading labor attorney talking about the fast-growing number of new hire reporting and notification requirements states are imposing on employers, and how HR professionals can better manage the process of monitoring, interpreting and enforcing them.

The webinar will be Tuesday, June 23, at noon Central time.

Topics will include:
• Key legislative trends in state and municipal regulations
• Overview of recently passed and upcoming state new hire requirements
• Best practices in managing the requirements

Chad Richter, a Partner with Jackson Lewis, will provide detail about selected individual requirements at the state and local level, such as the Massachusetts requirement earned sick time requirement taking effect July 1 and others. He will be joined by Julia Bailey, Sr. Director of Product Management at Equifax Workforce Solutions, and the two will clarify how such laws should be interpreted and how to meet their requirements. They’ll also discuss how employers can best manage the compliance challenges that the numerous requirements create.

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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.

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Compliancy Group will present a complimentary webinar on HIPAA compliance and how to deal with “Non- Business Associates.”

The 90-minute webinar will be Tuesday, July 14, beginning at 2 p.m. Eastern time.

HIPAA covered entities (including health care providers and health plans) and their business associates must be mindful of HIPAA compliance when working with other entities even when that other entity is not a business associate. Often, vendors have access to an organization’s premises or information systems which may result in incidental access to protected health information (PHI).

For example, a cleaning service may have access to a medical records room or an IT support vendor may have remote access to employee workstations. While such incidental access to PHI does not make the vendor a business associate, an organization must ensure that its PHI is protected and that it complies with HIPAA.

This webinar will address:

• Strategies for dealing with non-business associate vendors
• Best practices to protect your organization
• Development of policies and model contract language

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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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OnRamp has posted online a complimentary on-demand webinar discussing discuss the best practices for encrypting Electronic Protected Healthcare Information (ePHI) in a manner that exceeds HIPAA’s guidelines.

“Data breaches are growing in number in the healthcare industry, due in part to the increasing sophistication of hackers and the rising black-market cost of stolen medical records,” OnRamp says on its website. “Despite the levying of fines and penalties for breaches of Electronic Protected Healthcare Information (ePHI), businesses are still slow to effectively adopt one important IT practice: encryption.”

Topics include:

• Understanding HIPAA’s take on the topic of encryption
• Comparing the challenges of encrypting data in transit and at rest
• Using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines as a standard for encryption
• Best practices for accurately deploying and maintaining encryption

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CounselWorks and Compliance Science will present a complimentary webinar providing practical guidance on preparing for an SEC examination, conducted by Kathleen Malone, a former SEC examiner.

The webinar will be Tuesday, June 23, beginning at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time.

Presenters will discuss how to prepare a presentation that outlines your strategy and specific risks, in order to lay the right foundation for the examination staff from the outset. Other topics will include managing the staff, documenting requests and deficiency letters, and data analytics.

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The American Management Association presents a free webinar webcast addressing the contract officer representative’s role and a number of tools that can be used during performance of the contract to ensure a successful post-award phase of the acquisition process.

The contracting officer’s representative (COR) is the principle representative of the contracting officer (CO) for post-award management of the contract, the association says on its website. There are a number of tools available to the COR to monitor contractor performance.  These are six of the most effective tools to monitor contractor performance:

1. Contractor Progress Reports
2. Contractor Quality Assurance Plan (QAP)
3. Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP)
4. Earned Value Management (EVM)
5. Performance Assessment
6. Product or Service Inspection & Acceptance

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Oracle has posted an on-demand webinar on the planning challenges facing the oil and gas industry, how driver-based strategic planning can help address these, and how implementing Oracle’s Primavera solutions can help.

“With the turbulent and volatile price of oil and gas, it is paramount in organizations’ boardrooms that not only is the annual capex and opex budget set according to future oil and gas prices but that the correct projects are selected,” Oracle says in a release. “Executives need to ensure that projects deliver against predetermined drivers (ROI, positive cash flow, profitability, production, environmental impact).”

The webinar covers:

• Objectively assess projects to deliver the best shareholder value
• Improve return on capital, profitability and financial reporting accuracy
• reduce risk/contingency across the capital projects portfolio

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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.

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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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Dickinson Wright will present a webinar titled “Peeling Back the Curtain: Working with Your Legal Department to Optimize Your Relationship With Your Outside Law Firms” on four dates: June 2, 5, 10 and 11.

James Stapleton, Chief Business Development and Marketing Officer at Dickinson Wright, will be the presenter.

On its website, the firm says the pressure between managing external legal costs and efficient execution of your company’s legal tasks while maintaining a successful relationship with your outside law firms can be a challenge.  This webinar will examine the role that purchasing can fulfill to help satisfy your legal needs on an efficient and cost-effective basis.

The discussion will cover:

• The elements of successful RFPs
• Selection of candidate law firms
• Pricing
• Applying decision criteria and balancing workload between law firm and legal department.

Registration:

June 2, 2015 – Noon EST – Click here to register
June 5, 2015 – 1:00 EST – Click here to register
June 10, 2015 – Noon EST – Click here to register
June 11, 2015 – 4:00 P.M. EST – Click here to register