The past year has seen important federal court decisions relating to the scope of preservation and collection, what triggers the duty to preserve, required steps for crafting search terms and what conduct by parties and their lawyers is sanctionable. 

Join us for an examination of the topcases from the past year and the lessons learned from them. The program will be hosted by Michael Landau VP of Professional Development of the ARMA NNJ Chapter and Gail Gottehrer of Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP.

About the Presenters:

Gail Gottehrer is a Partner in the litigation department of Axinn in New York an d Connecticut. Her practice focuses on class action defense, management-side labor and employment litigation and other complex commercial matters. She is one of the few defense lawyers to have been involved in the trial of a class action to verdict before a jury.

In addition to her practice, Gail is a Teaching Assistant at Columbia University for a course in Intellectual Property, Ethics and Litigation in Columbia's M.S. program in Information and Knowledge Strategy. She serves as the Director of the Connecticut Chapter of Women in eDiscovery. She is a member of the Law Technology News Editorial Board. She is also a member of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance's Cyber Liability Committee and its eDiscovery and ESI Publications Committee. Gail is active in The Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention & Production and is part of the drafting team chosen to update its Commentary on Legal Holds. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Hartford Legal Aid Foundation.

Gail is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a former Law Clerk to the Honorable Murray C. Goldman, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County. She is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Michael Landau serves as a trusted advisor to Law Firms, Corporations and government agencies in preparing for litigation while minimizing risk exposure and costs related to e-Discovery and document review. Michael maintains a focus on litigation technology and electronic discovery solutions, including information governance (IG), records and document management. He also engages with clients on issues extending beyond the start of discovery relating to forensics, analysis, processing, review, and production.

 In addition Michael is the VP of Professional Development of the ARMA NNJ Chapter. ARMA is a 60 year old non-profit focused on Records Management and Enterprise Content Management. He is a frequent speaker on ECM, Legal Hold, Predictive Coding and other eDiscovery subjects. In addition he serves on the National ESI & discovery committee for Claims & Litigation Management (CLM). Currently Michael serves as a Regional Manager at Kiersted Systems, a national best in class provider of processing, hosting, and professionally managed review services, as well as forensic collections, translations, and legacy media restoration.

Michael has hands on experience with forensics, eDiscovery, document management, scanning & coding. He also has significant experience working with OAG requirements on a state level and for the DOJ, FTC and other state agencies.