IQPC is proud to announce the second eDiscovery conference specifically targeted to address the legal issues in the energy industry. This event will tackle current litigation trends within the energy sector, regulatory challenges and the imposed constraints on the eDiscovery team.
Pillsbury partners are participating on two panels.

Wayne Matus will be a speaker on a panel that will provide best practices for managing ESI in cloud computing sources and drafting contract provisions that address some of the litigation pitfalls. The panel will review these and other key questions:

• What is cloud computing — and what must litigators know about this emerging technology?
• How can counsel effectively institute a litigation hold involving data in the clouds?
• What duties does a provider of virtual computing or cloud services owe to a user when served with a third-party subpoena?
• What contractual provisions should a cloud computing user consider in its vendor service agreement to address some of the discovery pitfalls that typically arise?

• Who has the responsibility to do collection/culling? Who decides
  what keywords to use?
• Facilitating good communication
• Cost shifting/cost allocation/alternate fee arrangements
• Processing collection, review and destruction on both in-house
  and outside systems/data integration issues
• Managing relationships with outside counsel post-trial
• Certificate of completion

In 2003, Judge Shira Scheindlin of the United States District Court - Southern District of New York ruled on the Zubulake v. UBS case, which set an important precedence in the area of electronic discovery. More than six years later, Judge Scheindlin ruled on the Pension Comm. of Univer. of Montreal Pension Plan v. Bank of Am. Secs., LLC, which is potentially the most significant e-discovery decision affecting counsel since the Zubulake case.

Join Pillsbury as we examine Judge Scheindlin's most recent ruling, which addressed all of the applicable standards and obligations relating to the electronic discovery process, including:

• Impact on e-discovery compliance requirements and the risks of noncompliance
• Definition of negligence, gross negligence and willfulness within the context of e-discovery
• Significance of the decision for in-house counsel

Wayne Matus will be a speaker on a panel titled “Globe Trekking Issues and Conflicts,” which will explore:

• Crossing international borders: coping with different national and multinational regulatory requirements (ex. German Data Protection Law, The Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil and Commercial Matters, The EU Data Protection Directive with its Safe Harbor approach or the French Blocking Statue)

• Overcoming the risks involved in operating a global organization and the benefits in segregating data

• Protecting personally identifiable information: EU v. U.S. perspectives on privacy

• Drafting global document retention and destruction policies

• Searching foreign data: challenges and solutions

Wayne Matus and Phil Warden will be panelists for the Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum program titled “Electronic Discovery” which will cover:

• Overview of the Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• Key Cases
• The eDiscovery Process
• Case Study
• Managing eDiscovery

Litigation partner and leader of Pillsbury's e-Discovery practice Wayne C. Matus will serve on a panel titled "Improving Communication Among IT Departments, Corporate Counsel, Outside Counsel and Vendors to Streamline E-Discovery Efforts and Minimize Risks" from 4:00 – 5:30 pm Eastern Time on September 22, 2009. Topics to be discussed include:

• Strategies outside counsel should employ from the outset in order to familiarize themselves with their client's systems and procedures
• In-house counsel best practices for working with outside counsel to establish parameters for selecting appropriate vendors
• Determining the points of contact between the client and outside counsel to reduce miscommunications and redundancies
• Developing and communicating expectations and assumptions early in the relationship
• Overcoming communication barriers between lawyers and IT personnel
• Understanding the inner workings of the IT department so that you can obtain needed information faster and more reliably
• Essential IT information that in-house and outside counsel must know

The ISM 2009 Conference will feature sessions presented by federal agencies, including FNS, CMS, Child Support, and Child Welfare, addressing policy and procedural changes occurring in their programs. The ISM conference provides an opportunity for the private sector to discuss information technology issues in human services that affect both the public and private sectors. Join Wayne Matus, leader of Pillsbury's E-Discovery team, on Tuesday, September 1 when he speaks on an e-discovery panel from 8:00 – 9:15am CST. 

All it takes is a minor stroke of bad luck to create a major security breach. A disgruntled employee steals sensitive customer information. A computer hacker breaks into a retailer’s Web site and accesses credit card information. An executive accidentally leaves his laptop at the airport. When this happens, what do you do?

As Internet applications, platforms and services become increasingly popular and sophisticated at the same time, privacy officers and counsel from companies both large and small now face new data privacy challenges related to the rise of these technologies.

Wayne Matus, Deborah Thoren-Peden and Catherine Meyer are speaking on September 17, 2008 on the topic of security breaches.

Wayne Matus will address legal issues in a competition matter with the aid of technology.