Understanding the Hidden Threat —
Best Practices to Manage the Risks
CD of Webinar with Q&A
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Conducted on Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Now available on CD
Sponsored by the Legal Publishing Group of Strafford Publications
Metadata is the hidden information or properties automatically embedded in most word processing and spreadsheet files.
When you email any document to a client, opposing counsel or other parties, it may include metadata — revealing information potentially adverse to your firm's or client's interests. Disclosing confidential client information this way can expose you to ethics charges and malpractice liability.
Email is not the only way that metadata is conveyed. Even converting a document from native format to a pdf does not clean it of its metadata, as Whole Foods learned recently when it revealed strategic company information in an FTC filing that was improperly redacted.
Listen as our authoritative panel offers clear and specific guidance on how you, your firm, or your company can act immediately to understand, control and manage metadata — and avoid related malpractice exposure and ethics violations.
The panel included:
Robert Brownstone, Law and Technology Director, Fenwick & West, Mountain View, Calif. He advises clients on electronic discovery, electronic information management and on retention/destruction policies and protocols. He also collaborates with clients as to computer solutions enabling compliance with legal obligations.
Dennis P. Duffy, Partner, Baker Botts, Houston. He chairs the firm's Labor and Employment Practice and advises on handling global corporate human resources issues and acquisition/divestiture employment issues, including due diligence. He has written on mitigating the risks of inadvertent or deliberate disclosure of confidential information in the electronic workplace.
The panel reviewed these and other key questions:
- What is metadata — where is it located — why is it a threat to all attorneys?
- What are the ethical implications of failing to properly manage metadata?
- How are bar associations, the courts and malpractice insurers treating alleged mishandling of metadata?
- What can attorneys and others in the business world do to reduce or eliminate the risk of inadvertent disclosures?
- What action should you take if an opposing counsel sends you documents with revealing metadata?
You will see live demonstrations of how to:
- Easily view metadata in word processing and pdf files.
- Use a few clicks in metadata software to clean and analyze metadata.
- Navigate the do's and don'ts of handling tracked changes and electronic redaction.
WEBINAR CD
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