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Business Leader Northwest 2009 Leadership Conference

This leadership conference will provide a timely opportunity to sharpen your business and leadership capabilities, exchange ideas, and connect with other remarkable business leaders throughout the Northwest.

Learn from world-class thought leaders such as Stephen M.R. Covey, Jennifer James, Dennis Deaton, and Terry Paulson. Choose from more than 30 content-rich sessions on a variety of timely topics and best practices for today's business leader.

Katherine Heekin will be speaking on the need to "Trust, But Verify". To register, go to www.businessleadernw.com. Get a special reduced rate of $199 by using registration code BLPKH01. Standard rate is $369.

  • February 25-26, 2009
  • Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR

Protecting your Blind Side: Litigation Readiness Assessments and Audits in the Digital Age

OACFE Chapter Lunch Meeting featuring Katherine Heekin, Attorney and Anton Litchfield, Director of Data Forensics and Analysis for Encore Discovery Solutions.

  • November 4, 2008 - 11:30am

What Your Clients "Think" You Know about Forensic Accounting®

Katherine Heekin, instructor in electronic evidence, Forensic Accounting Academy™

  • Sponsored by the Consultants' Training Institute, a partner with the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts
  • Baltimore, Maryland - September 26, 2008
  • San Antonio, Texas - October 31, 2008
  • San Diego, CA - December 12, 2008

E-Discovery: Bridging the Gap Between the Law and the Technology

At this practice-oriented seminar, experienced litigators and judges from the federal and state bench will share their insights on how to successfully navigate the new frontier of e-discovery. You will learn strategic considerations for the meet and confer with opposing counsel, what tools are available to manage electronic discovery, tips from the bench on court intervention in discovery disputes, and how to effectively present electronic evidence in court. Click here to view the program brochure.

  • Sponsored by the Oregon Law Institute of Lewis and Clark Law School
  • October 10, 2008
  • Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR

E-Discovery: You Can't Avoid It!

A fast-paced one hour session will consider the practical impact of the e-discovery rules in federal court, address strategy and tactics to improve advocacy, reduce risks to clients and counsel, and rein in costs, and cover recent significant decisions.

  • Sponsored by Federal Bar Association, Oregon Chapter and Oregon Law Institute of Lewis & Clark Law School
  • May 30, 2008
  • Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse
  • Portland, OR

Finding and Preventing Risks in Electronic Information Management

This two-hour presentation will cover negligent design of and negligent compliance with records management policies, good purging versus bad purging of documents, successfully implementing a litigation hold, collecting and using electronic evidence, and litigation readiness assessments and audits.

  • Sponsored by Lorman Education Services
  • May 29, 2008
  • Eugene, OR

Will You, Your Report, the Electronic Evidence Relied Upon in Your Report, and Your Testimony Pass Muster in Court?

This two-hour presentation will give an overview of the requirements under the federal rules for expert qualifications, an expert's report, and expert testimony, best practices for avoiding or overcoming Daubert/Kumho Tire challenges, proper preservation of electronic evidence, pitfalls in authenticating and admitting electronic evidence, effective records management, responding to subpoenas, and protecting privileged material.

  • Sponsored by AGN-International
  • 2008 North American Regional Meeting
  • May 20, 2008
  • Grand Hyatt, Seattle, WA

Civil Fraud: Tracking the Kitchen Rats Who Cook the Books

  • Sponsored by Mary Leonard Law Society
  • April 17, 2008
  • Salem, OR