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FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE ON E-DISCOVERY:

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW, WHAT YOU NEED TO DO

A One-Day Workshop on Enterprise-Wide Readiness for e-Discovery

About The Workshop's Content

This information-packed workshop will increase your understanding of the new Rules, help you improve your organization’s e-Discovery readiness, and identify the roles and practices to include in e-Discovery readiness improvement efforts and in ongoing e-Discovery management. Topics include:

Understanding the Rules

• What is discoverable

• Benefit of the new discovery Rules

• Complications in complying with the Rules

• Key provisions of the new Rules

• Undue burden/good cause

• Good faith

• Meet and Confer

Improving Your e-Discovery Readiness

Recognizing that every organization has competing goals and limited resources, this workshop will help you set priorities in crafting your approach to improving your e-Discovery readiness and developing your e-Discovery readiness plan. Topics include:

• Evaluating e-Discovery risks, what actions to take, extent of effort, and timing

• Identifying and handling an organization's  most important ESI

• What an organization may not need to produce

• Recognizing litigation that may be on the horizon

• Email, instant messaging, and internet/intranet sites issues

• Identifying technology and process needs

• Developing an ESI Management Plan

Who Should Be Involved in e-Discovery

   Taking a cross-functional approach, we will cover:

• Roles and responsibilities in e-Discovery Readiness improvement efforts

• Ongoing e-Discovery management roles and responsibilities

Who Should Attend

You should attend this workshop if you are a CIO, CEO, COO, corporate counsel, VP Corporate Risk Management, or records manager.

Workshop Date and Time

 Click here to register.

Workshop Presenter

Amy Girst, J.D., is an IMERGE Consulting Associated Consultant. She has worked with corporate clients for 25 years, as partner in the law firm representing the Bank of Oklahoma, N.A. banking system and other corporate clients, and as a management consultant working with financial services clients such as Mutual of Omaha and ABN AMRO, as well as clients in the health care, e-commerce and manufacturing sectors.

Amy’s management consulting practice has encompassed both strategy and operational matters. Projects have ranged from implementing key startup activities and strategic plans for launching a well funded e-commerce business venture through implementing Customer Relationship Management technology and processes across multiple sites and departments

Recognized as a skilled educator and facilitator, Amy has conducted workshops, facilitated meetings, and made presentations in not-for-profit, law firm, and corporate settings in the US and abroad. She is the co-author of articles on strategy development and implementation, and on outsourcing.

Amy earned her Bachelor of Business Administration and her J.D. from Washburn University of Topeka (KS).

If you have questions or comments regarding our training workshops contact us at

trainingatimergeconsult.com or phone 815-398-0492 (US) or 416-840-4461 (Canada)