HR Management & Compliance

Feb. 27 Audio Conference to Detail Requirements – and Risks – of the New E-Storage Rules

Revised court procedures, now in effect, may forever change your way of storing e-mails and other e-messages. A special BLR audio-conference will tell you how you’re impacted.

In January, BLR presented an audio conference on important changes in federal employment law for 2007. It was one of our best received events.

As it turns out, however, one of the most important changes facing you this year is not a change in law at all. Nor did it emanate from a court decision, in the usual sense, though it did come down from the U.S. Supreme Court in its role as administrative overseer of the U.S. court system.

The most important change is a set of new procedures dealing with electronic messages that may be needed as evidence in trials. This change is important enough that BLR has decided to do a separate audio conference on the topic, on Tuesday, February 27th.

Why is the procedural change important to you?

As you undoubtedly know from one look at your computer inbox, electronic communication has exploded in recent years, leaving the postal carrier feeling a bit lonely these days. E-mail, instant messages (IMs), and personal data assistant (PDA) and cell phone text messages are the prime means business people use to communicate in writing. Therefore, reasoned the Court, such messages are also where illegal or improper conversations are likely to be found.

Mandating storage of paper documents when litigation is in the air is not new. Courts frequently order that shredding policies be suspended to preserve a “paper trail.” Applying this doctrine to electronic communications, however, is a still evolving area of law. And never before have such procedures been spelled out in detail.

The new procedures mandate that business create new methods of storing, indexing, and locating past e-communications, should there be any litigation or possibility of litigation occurring. Lawyers will be required to find the right document faster and earlier in the litigation process.

Putting one’s finger on an obscure e-mail written months ago is not easily done in most current systems. So the changes, says the prospectus for the coming audio conference, “will almost certainly change the way you preserve data.”

The 90-minute conference will cover these important elements of the new procedures:

–The many places where data is stored, some which you may not even realize exist

–Your responsibility to preserve relevant data, even if it is not in your possession or control (as for instance, if it’s personally held by an employee or contractor)

–The elements of an effective preservation process, illustrated by case studies

–How to avoid the risk of identity theft or violation of privacy created by keeping records you previously destroyed

–An effective e-storage strategy

The presenters include Joseph M. English, a noted employment law attorney with Taylor Busch Slipakoff & Duma in Atlanta, and founder of the firm’s employment law practice, and Cathy Hampton, founder and principal of Hampton Resources, Inc., in Manassas, Virginia. Her firm specializes in managing strategic change to generate maximum results from a minimum investment.

As with all BLR audio conferences, one fee trains as many staff as you can fit around a conference phone, and all are invited to submit questions to the presenters via e-mail or phone, in real-time. It’s a great way to get a lot of people a lot of knowledge in little time and for comparatively little money.

You can register for the conference, titled, New Rules on Storage of Electronic Personnel Records: What You Need to Know (or arrange to purchase a CD of you can’t attend), by clicking on the link below. As with all BLR programs, your satisfaction is assured.


For more information, to register for, or to pre-order a CD of the E-Storage audio conference, click here.


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