| PC 101 FOR LAWYERS
Risks of Using Digital Data In the Practice of Law
Please Note: This course has already
been held.
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2005
Location: Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
Time: 05:30 PM - 08:00 PM
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Most lawyers have become so comfortable with computers that they sometimes forget to consider the risks involved. These risks range from the everyday hassles of e-mail spam to the much more serious ethical dangers of betraying client confidentiality or improper retention of documents. If you are not aware of the potential hazards inherent in the use of computers to your clients and practice, you should attend this program.
This program will give you a fresh look at how you are using your computer. From the basic issues of protecting data and your computer to the more advanced issues of controlling digital data, you will learn from the perspectives of an academic, a practitioner and an attorney from the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers.
This program will benefit solo and small firm practitioners who don’t have IT staff to advise them. Don’t take the chance of relying on your computer consultants to know about the possible violations of the rules of professional conduct. Learn how to minimize the risks and about the reasonable actions you can take to avoid violating the rules.
Attend and Learn:
- How to protect your computer and your digital data
- What is reasonable document retention
- What happens to deleted email
- What is metadata and how can it get you into trouble
- When can you be sanctioned for failing to produce electronic discovery
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Professor Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, Chair
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Co-Director of IP Law Concentration, Suffolk University Law School |
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Michael A. Albert
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Is a member of Wolf Greenfield’s Executive
Committee and is Chair of the Litigation Group and the Internet
Practice Group. His practice is focused on the areas of trademark, copyright, patent and trade secret litigation. His clients include high-tech companies in the software, Internet, biotechnology and engineering industries, as well as consumer and retail businesses. Michael has trial experience in state and federal courts and appellate experience before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First Circuit and Federal Circuit, as well as the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Michael also serves as an arbitrator for Internet domain name disputes through the World Intellectual Property Association, and is on the National Arbitration Forum’s roster of mediators and arbitrators. Michael is an author or co-author of several articles on IP law including “Trade Libel:
Theory and Practice Under the Common Law, the Lanham Act, and the First Amendment” (Trademark Reporter) and “U.S. Intellectual Property Litigation: Risk and Reward in Building the Superhighway” (SSGRR International Conference on Internet Infrastructure). Michael has been named in Boston Magazine as one of Massachusetts’ “Super Lawyers” in the field of patent litigation.
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Terence M. Troyer
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Has been an Assistant Bar Counsel since
1983. He has prosecuted hundreds of disciplinary violations and closed or dismissed even greater numbers of unsubstantiated allegations. Mr. Troyer is a graduate of Boston College and Boston College Law School. Prior to joining the office of the bar counsel, he served as an assistant district attorney in Middlesex County and as an assistant attorney general. In both of those offices, he is perhaps best remembered as the crazy lawyer who sat at the secretary’s desk typing on the word processor. Ever since, his creative use of computers to make mistakes has been a source of wonder and awe among his colleagues.
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| S C H E D U L E / A G E N D A |
| 5:30 |
Welcome and Introductions |
Professor Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, Co-Director
IP Law Concentration, Suffolk University Law School
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Protecting, Securing, Disposing and Controlling Digital Data |
- Protecting digital data
- Problems related to spam, viruses, spyware and malware
- Wireless access – convenience or problem?
- Software to protect computers and networks
- Disposal of old computers, disks, CDs – lurking dangers
- Background checks on non-lawyer personnel
- E-mail concerns
- Digital document retention programs
- Backing up digital data
Professor Andrew Beckerman-Rodau
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Commentary on Ethical Issues and Practice Concerns |
| Attorney Terence M. Troyer, Attorney Michael A. Albert & Professor Andrew Beckerman-Rodau
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| 7:00 |
Intellectual Property Issues Related to Computer Usage and Electronic Discovery |
- Copyright issues, duplicating and modifying software
- Metadata
- Electronic Discovery - Expert witnesses, Who pays, Spoliation
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| 7:30 |
Commentary on Ethical Issues and Practice Concerns |
| Attorney Terence M. Troyer, Attorney Michael A. Albert & Professor Andrew Beckerman-Rodau
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| Date: |
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Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
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Tuition is $149; $99 for attorneys admitted to the Bar after 2002, Suffolk alumni and solo practitioners. Course book and refreshments included in the tuition charge.
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Space is limited. Registrations at the door are welcome, but please register in advance to reserve a seat and your written course materials or call to confirm space availability.
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Written requests for cancellations received via fax or email 24 hours prior to the program will be granted a refund, minus a $15 charge. If you cannot attend, you can send a substitute, otherwise you will receive the written course materials.
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Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
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Approved for CLE Credit in RI, NH, VT & ME. This course is approved for 1 hour of ethics credit.
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If you have special needs addressed by the Americans with Disabilities Act, please notify us as soon as possible.
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Directions to the Law School.
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