Legal Series for 2011: Common Discovery Issues in Employment Litigation
Overview:
The growing complexities of discovery issues like document preservation and e-discovery in employment litigation make labor and employment cases especially challenging for companies in 2011. Discovery can be a time consuming process with many potential pitfalls.
This Knowledge Group live webcast: Common Discovery Issues in Employment Litigation aims to put you in the know with respect to understanding key issues surrounding discovery and employment litigation. Discovery experts will take you through a realistic example providing an end-to-end discussion of the most significant issues affecting the discovery process.
In our hypothetical scenario we’ll take you through how a large international firm deals with a punitive class action lawsuit brought about by a scorned employee who claims sex discrimination and retaliation by the company for her taking maternity leave. The stage is set and the stakes are high.
Some of the key issues addressed will include:
- Reaction: Stop, assess, & act: The first four critical moves.
- Protection: Settling in for the fight: critical steps you need to take.
- Prevention: How do we protect ourselves for the next time?
Join this live webcast to hear the story of how our company handled this precarious situation. Take away valuable lessons in how to expertly manage critical issues concerning discovery and employment litigation. This is a must attend event for anyone interested in understanding the most significant discovery issues in employment litigation. Enroll in this course today. Click the “Register” button below. Hurry as space is limited and discounts apply for early registrants.
Agenda:
Setting Up the Scenario
-Conclusion and Wrapping Up the Scenario
- Stop, assess, act – what are the first 4 things that BTA should do?
- Protecting privilege
- Issuing the legal hold
- Identifying and preserving evidence
- Retaining an expert; whether to use labor economist who conducted prior study; assessment of risks and benefits of doing so
- Forensics – Do i need to image?
- Accessible versus inaccessible – cross-border discovery issues
- The cloud
- Social media
- Now that we have settled in for a fight -what next.
- Preparing for the discovery conference – keeping an eye on costs.
- Managing the privilege and balancing privacy concerns with employee communications & International implications associated with employees located in the us, uk, france and japan
- How do we keep this from happening again? How can we do better next time?
Who Should Attend:
- Employment Litigation Practicing Lawyers
- Attorneys
- General Counsel
- Private companies
- Public companies
- C-Level
- Legal Officers
- In-house Lawyers
- Senior Management
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Course Level:
Intermediate
Advance Preparation:
Print and review course materials
Method of Presentation:
On-demand Webcast (CLE)
Prerequisite:
NONE
Course Code:
114159
Total Credits:
2.0 CLE
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About Nuix
Nuix makes the world’s fastest and most advanced eDiscovery and electronic investigation software. With revolutionary processing speeds and scalability, Nuix enables litigation support vendors, law firms and corporations to take control of their eDiscovery process, slashing the time and cost and delivering fact-based answers to clients in record time. Nuix has customers in 25 countries including major law firms, corporations, financial institutions, advisory firms, litigation support firms as well as all of the world’s leading corporate regulators including the SEC (US), ASIC (Australia), the FSA and SFO (UK) and the JSEC (Japan). See nuix.com for more information.
Website: https://www.nuix.com/
About Baker & McKenzie LLP
Founded in 1949, Baker & McKenzie advises many of the world’s most dynamic and successful business organizations through more than 3,750 locally qualified lawyers and over 5,700 professional staff in 69 offices in 41 countries. Baker & McKenzie is known for having a deep understanding of the language and culture of business, an uncompromising commitment to excellence, and world-class fluency in its client service.
Website: https://www.bakermckenzie.com/
About Paul Hastings LLP
Website: https://www.paulhastings.com/
About Continuum Worldwide
Continuum Worldwide is a full service litigation support partner. Their services include preservation and collection, processing and hosting, to review and production of electronic data. Continuum’s service delivery approach includes a dedicated project manager who coordinates the workflow and management of each project. Its technical group is available to address any desired enhancements to processing or reporting as necessitated by each project. Continuum believes communication is critical to the successful outcome of any E-Discovery project. Each client is regularly updated on the progress and any challenges that arise during the project lifecycle. Continuum draws from a deep pool of experts with decades of experience and a broad base of credentials to ensure that high-volume and high-urgency projects are in confident hands. All of Continuum’s consulting and litigation support services are defensible and repeatable, giving our clients a resource they can count on.
Website: https://www.continuumww.com/