CGOC RIM Working Group Meeting: 10 Elements of Modern Retention Schedules
September 8, 10am, Webinar Register
Speakers: Harry Pugh, formerly of Citigroup and Lorrie Luellig, Ryley Carlock & Applewhite

A Presentation of the CGOC Benchmark Report on Information Governance
September 14, 10am, Webinar Register
Speaker: Deidre Paknad, PSS Systems

New England CGOC Meetings: Rigorous Discovery, Defensible Disposal Case Studies
September 22 - Boston, MA Register
September 23 - Hartford, CT Register
Sessions and networking lunch
Speakers: Jennifer Crawford, Bank of America; Tina Gibson, Devon Energy (Boston only) and Dan Kulakofsky, Travelers (Hartford only)

Roadmap to Information Governance — 2-Part Program Designed for Legal, RIM and IT Colleagues
September 30, 10am, Webinar Register
October 13 - Chicago Workshop Register
Speakers: Peter Sloan and Deborah Juhnke, Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

CGOC Summit 2011
The 7th annual CGOC Summit continues its tradition of setting the tone for the dialog on information governance. This 2-day executive session showcases our faculty of corporate thought leaders who generously share their expertise and strategies. Summit delegates from F500 including 7 of the F10 are senior executives from a cross cut of industries including oil and gas, pharmaceutical, financial services, diverse manufacturing, healthcare, and chemical. In 2011 we mark a new era by raising our registration cap to 200.This accommodates the exciting trend from 2010 with companies sending multiple delegates representing their stakeholder from legal, RIM, and IT.
April 2011, location TBD. More details and registration coming soon.

Discovery in the Cloud with Novartis's Pam Roberts
On June 29th, Pam Roberts from Novartis shared her diligence checklist to identify challenges and related solutions for electronic discovery in the cloud environment. Download her presentation or view the webinar replay.


Rigorous Discovery, Lower Litigation Cost
On June 30th our Dallas CGOC meeting covered how to effect rigorous discovery yet lower litigation cost. Hosted in the stunning Tenet Healthcare downtown offices, our Dallas attendees networked over lunch (see the photos) following the practical advice from Halliburton's Liz Schimmel and Devon's Tina Gibson. Download their presentations..


Legal Holds & E-Discovery Under Pressure
Download the presentations from Robert Levy of ExxonMobil, Tina Gibson of Devon Energy, Amir Alavi of AZA, and Deidre. See what strategies and practical advice they shared in light of the Rimkus and Pension decisions; get Tina's audit checklist; and see steps on how to get every efficiency possible to scale strained staff yet ensure a rigorous process.


Kim Borzick shared Abbott's approach to reducing legal risk and cost in data collection. Listen to the replay and download the presentation from this May 20th online CGOC meeting. .
Do you have a question for Kim, Rani, or me? Ask it in the Collections group.


An introduction of the IMRM with the preliminary results from the information governance survey. Some surprising results:
• 80% of companies have weak or strained linkage between Legal, IT and RIM functions
• 54% gave themselves a grade C or worse
• 2/3 of IT staff said the responsibility model and collaboration with legal doesn’t work

... more events

Since 2004, CGOC has uniquely focused on retention, preservation, and privacy and has provided corporate practitioners a place to learn from experts and benchmark with their peers. Now, CGOC has launched a professional network that combines that unique focus with the ability to engage and interact online. The CGOC professional networking site has a variety of features to allow relationships to be built and best practices to be shared across the community.

Whether you have a simple question you need answered, are looking for a consultant with specific expertise, or have an opinion you’d like to share, you’ve come to the right place!

With the CGOC Professional Network, you can:

• Create your own or join an existing group within the community to find members with similar interests and roles
• Create your own blog to start dialogue between your peers on what you care about – retention policies, legal hold advice, data protection and privacy laws?
• Personalize your profile page with text boxes, profile answers, photos, and your latest articles and speaking engagements as resources for others
• Invite your colleagues to join
• Click “follow” at the bottom of any discussion thread to receive an email when others comment

We hope you will find the expertise and engagement online a valuable complement to CGOC events! I welcome your suggestions ... just post them on my page or send me an email.

Deidre Paknad
CGOC Founder