Suzanne M. Foster, JD, CHC
Holland & Knight
Martin J. Jaron, Jr
Partner, Litigation Section
Holland & Knight LLP
Glenn Martin
Chief Internal Audit & Compliance Officer,
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems

      Confused about how the recent E-Discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure will affect your records retention and compliance program? This session examines the practical impact the new E-Discovery Rules have on how organizations preserve, review, and produce electronic documents and evidence, and how to utilize or upgrade your existing records retention and compliance programs to meet the requirements of the new Federal Rules, including:

• Review of the new E-Discovery Rules, with emphasis on how they affect records management & compliance programs
• Preservation obligations and when they arise
• Litigation holds and evolving court standards for preservation
• Consequences of failure to preserve potentially relevant evidence, including adverse inferences, exclusion of evidence or witnesses, default judgments, costs and monetary damages, obstruction of justice, false statement charges
• Ethical duties to preserve electronic evidence