WATCH YOUR E-MAIL!

A Member Benefit Luncheon Presentation: RPost - A Practical Approach
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:30-2 PM


How do you protect your firm in light of the current case law relating to e-mail and the exposure in most e-mail records management plans? This session highlights how you can lower your costs and minimize liability risk when disputes arise, and presents a practical approach to protecting your organization.

Your printed e-mail is not a record that will withstand challenge. Your sent folder is not a verifiable record. Your e-mail archive only provides you with half the picture - what was claimed to have been sent, not what was received. Public research reports 3% of business-to-business (non-marketing) e-mail goes undelivered, validating that common excuse of "I didn't get the e-mail!" Litigators are becoming wise to these common pitfalls relating to e-mail evidence and are beginning to take advantage of your exposure to argue against admission of your central e-mail evidence in dispute resolution situations. You have exposure and you may not be aware. Your IT department and other advisors are not speaking about these issues as there are many divergent interests within your corporation when considering e-mail records management issues - which cut across legal, compliance, risk management, records management, and IT.

In this presentation, Zafar Khan, CEO of RPost, uses a case study format to provide a discussion of common misunderstandings, pitfalls and a practical approach to managing e-mail risks that can align all interests within your firm.

Attending this session will provide you with specific insights and a practical solution that you can bring back to your company and implement in days at very little cost. There will be discussion on:

• The five most common pitfalls of e-mail records management initiatives
• The four components of your e-mail records to ensure admissibility into evidence
• Three tools that you can implement immediately at very little cost without any complexity
• Two simple retention policies that comply with e-discovery rules
• One approach to reduce storage and e-discovery costs and risks