Catagory:Speaking Engagements & Publications

April 27 – May 1, 2008
San Diego Convention Center
111 West Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101
www.visitsandiego.com

K&L Gates partner David R. Cohen will be one of the speakers presenting “An Ounce of Prevention:  Your 12-Step Guide to Avoiding e-Discovery Disasters," on Monday, April 28 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.

This session will introduce risk managers, as well as counsel, to the hot topic of e-discovery and discuss concrete steps to reduce risk exposure and costs related to records management and e-discovery.  A series of 5- to 10-minute videotaped vignettes will show scenes from a sample litigation matter involving e-discovery issues.  Relevant information about new rules and case law will be summarized by the panelists and by a federal court judge from one of the videos.  With your input, the scenes will serve as a springboard for an interactive discussion on records management and e-discovery readiness steps.

Additional speakers at this presentation include Michael Lubben of Ryder System, Inc. and Debra Samuel of Alcoa Inc.

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Monday & Tuesday, March 31 & April 1, 2008
Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel
569 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10022

K&L Gates partner David R. Cohen is a co-chair of this informative two-day conference.  He and K&L Gates partner Martha J. Dawson will be among those presenting and participating on panels, offering practical advice on records management, e-discovery and litigation readiness issues relevant to the life sciences industry.  Click here for additional information, or to register.

Program Overview:

The life sciences industry is particularly vulnerable to the inherent risk that arises out of improper management of electronic documents and e-discovery.  Taking into consideration the numerous regulatory and compliance requirements of the industry, the voluminous amount of electronic information that is consistently created and stored, and the pervasive litigation that surrounds the life sciences industry, companies must adopt proactive document management and e-discovery policies they can strategically implement and effectively enforce across the company.

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March 13-15, 2008
Hilton Chicago
720 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605

ABA TechShow 2008 offers more than 50 education and training sessions in 16 different tracks.  Sessions are designed to help people at various skills levels learn to make the most effective use of technology in their legal setting.  Whether you are an IT novice or a technocrat, a solo practitioner or a large firm lawyer, ABA TechShow provides programming options that are sure to challenge your thinking and expand your knowledge.

K&L Gates partner David R. Cohen will be participating in two sessions at this popular conference:

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Please join us for in-depth information and discussion about the legal impact of recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Hosted by Microsoft and featuring speakers from K&L Gates, these summits will help equip your company to comply with evolving federal e-discovery requirements and help avoid costly penalties.

To register, or to find out more information about this conference series, please click here.

Seattle Event:
January 29, 10:00AM -1:30PM:  Martha J. Dawson
W Hotel Seattle
1112 4th Avenue
Seattle WA, 98101

Detroit Event:
January 30, 9:00AM-1:00PM:  Thomas J. Smith
Microsoft Corporation – Southfield Office
1000 Town Center, Suite 2000
Southfield, MI 48075

San Francisco Event:
January 31, 8:30AM-11:00AM:  Helen Bergman Moure
Microsoft Corporation – San Francisco Office
835 Market Street, Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94103

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Washington Convention Center
801 Mt. Vernon Place NW
Washington, DC 20001

February 4-6, 2008

K&L Gates partner David E. Cohen will be presenting the opening day keynote address at this inaugural computer forensics event.  David’s presentation, entitled "A Litigation ‘Perfect Storm’:  Why Data Proliferation and E-Discovery are Battering U.S. Businesses,” will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 4, 2008.

The Computer Forensics Show is described as the “Don’t Miss!” event of the year for all litigation, accounting and IT professionals.  There will be multiple tracks of sessions offered each day, specifically geared towards the different audiences who will be attending, i.e., “Legal Track,” “Accounting Track,” “IT Security Track,” “IT Security (Advanced) Track,” and “Lab Track.” 

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
12 p.m. Luncheon & Program

Sheraton Station Square
300 West Station Square Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15219

K&L Gates partner David R. Cohen will discuss how to avoid the pitfalls in litigation surrounding e-discovery requests at an upcoming program hosted by the Pittsburgh Chapter of Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (“RIMS”).  The program will be of particular interest to general counsel, compliance officers and CIOs.  Registration begins at 11:45 a.m., and the cost is $30.

Click here to register for the program.

Thursday, November 15, 2007
9:15 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Kaye Scholer LLP
425 Park Avenue
New York, NY

K&L Gates partner David R. Cohen is among the faculty who will speak at this informative program.

A copy of the agenda is available here.

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E-Discovery
Friday, November 16, 2007
9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Koppers Building, Ninth Floor
436 Seventh Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA

This program, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, will explore current and future discovery rules and their impact on e-discovery; impart techniques technologists employ to find electronic information; describe the types of information available for discovery and the formats in which one can obtain electronic documents, and describe how cost-shifting can impact expenses.

K&L Gates Partner David R. Cohen will speak at the 10:05 a.m. session on the topic of collecting and processing electronically stored information.

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Los Angeles: Wednesday, September 26, 2007
San Francisco: Thursday, September 27, 2007

This interactive program is designed to educate in-house counsel, executives, paralegals, and IT professionals about e-discovery, the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and steps that they should be taking now to achieve litigation readiness and reduce liability exposure. Through a series of videotaped vignettes, participants can see what to do and what not to do with regard to electronic records in litigation. A series of 5-10 minute vignettes provide snapshots throughout the life of a case, from first filing and service of a complaint all the way through trial. The scenarios and mistakes made in the sample case were drawn from real life examples.

The majority of the program is presented in a workshop format that invites comments and questions from the audience together with expert commentary from our panelists from CGOC, PSS Systems and K&L Gates. The final segment of the program is dedicated to outlining steps and tools available for companies to help protect themselves from e-discovery risks and costs.

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April 19 – 20, 2007
Renaissance Washington, D.C. Hotel
999 Ninth Street NW
Washington, D.C.

K&L Gates partner Todd L. Nunn and William B. Dodero of Bayer HealthCare LLC, West Haven, Connecticut, will be making a presentation entitled:  "What about Problematic Forms of ESI: IM, Digital Voicemails, VoIP and Dynamic Databases" tomorrow, April 20, 2007, in Washington, D.C.  The presentation is just one of many occurring during the two-day DRI Electronic Discovery Seminar that begins today. 

DRI’s Electronic Discovery Seminar features several of the most prominent federal court judges and magistrate judges in electronic discovery jurisprudence.  The program also includes corporate counsel and outside counsel with national reputations for defending cases involving complex electronic discovery issues and disputes, and it is structured to address the most important issues in this rapidly developing field in a manner that emphasizes the practical over the theoretical.  The timeliness of the conference—nearly five months after the implementation of the electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—provides you with the opportunity to learn from the frontline experiences of the judiciary, corporate clients and leading litigators how to optimize your chances for victory in the new era of discovery under the amended federal rules.

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