Estrin Education Inc.

eDiscovery: Hoarding Electronic Documents - Getting Employees to Stop

Webinar approx. 60 min. (1 Hr. CLE) No Separate PowerPoint

Most employees tend to save all of their electronic documents forever, creating risk and increasing costs for their organization. Often organizational efforts to delete the unneeded documents have the opposite effect by increasing “underground archiving.”

Change this trend in your organization by using smart strategies. Discover how you can get employees to stop hoarding and start enabling effective and defensible deletion of electronic information.

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:

 1. Change employee behavior from saving everything to saving smart
 2. Be realistic on what to expect of employees
 3. Apply incentives and consequences that really work
 4. List how other organizations approach this change
 5. Audit the process after implementation

Meet Your Presenter

Mark Diamond is one of the industry thought leaders in proactive litigation readiness, compliance, and records information management strategies. His company, Contoural, has helped 20% of the Fortune 500 plus many mid-sized and smaller organizations as well as public sector entities. As a trusted advisor he and his company help bridge legal, compliance and business needs and policies with effective legal and IT strategies and processes. Mark is a frequent industry speaker, presenting at numerous Legal and IT industry conferences as well as online venues. Additionally, Mark addresses more than one hundred internal corporate audiences each year.

Mark is founder, President & CEO of Contoural, Inc. Under his leadership, Contoural has grown to be the largest independent provider of litigation readiness and records and information management services. As an independent provider Contoural does not sell any products, provide any document review nor supply document warehousing services. Providing innovative approaches, these strategies help simplify complex issues, build consensus, ensure compliance, and reduce risks and lower costs.

He is recognized as a thought leader in litigation readiness and records information management. Mark is an online columnist for InsideCounsel Magazine, as well as an author of numerous white papers for both the legal and IT communities. He is a frequent speaker at the Association for Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting and other legal conferences. He also served as Chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association customer advisory board on data security.