About the Program:

1 hour General Participatory MCLE credit available.

This class is available for remote viewing from home/office. Special instructions for remote viewing will be emailed a few days before the class.

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure require that companies be prepared to discuss the location and accessibility of potentially relevant information shortly after litigation begins. Discovery rules and recent case law require the quick and effective imposition of a litigation hold once a triggering event occurs. This session will address how to reduce discovery costs and risks through litigation readiness, including the development of an effective litigation discovery response plan, the creation of a targeted data map, and a review of email and records retention policies (in and out of the cloud), schedules and backups.

About the Speaker:

Jeff Jacobs is the General Counsel and Senior Consultant for DTI, where for the past five years he has advised clients on litigation readiness, email and records retention, and the planning and execution of electronic discovery matters.

Prior to joining DTI, Jeff spent seven years as an Associate Litigation Counsel at MCI/WorldCom, where he managed the electronic discovery associated with the government investigations of the WorldCom accounting fraud, the related securities class actions and other litigation, and the acquisition of MCI by Verizon. He also served as counsel to the Company’s Records and Information Management group and managed the Company’s subpoena compliance unit. Before MCI, Jeff was a Special Counsel in the litigation group of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Washington, DC office.

Jeff is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Chicago Law School, and was in the first class of candidates to qualify as a certified electronic discovery specialist by the Association of Electronic Discovery Specialists (ACEDS).

About Cancellations:

To cancel your registration, please call 619-531-3900. To receive a refund, you must notify us 72 hours in advance. Refunds may take up to 2 weeks to process.