E-Discovery and Early Case Assessment CLE - We Bring it to Your Organization
BlueStar Case Solutions presents: E-Discovery and Early Case Assessment: Practical, Legal and Cost Considerations A one hour CLE course sponsored by BlueStar and conveniently presented to your firm or corporation in the comfort of your conference room. We encourage and can help with video conferencing your satellite or remote offices. Introduction “E-Discovery and Early Case Assessment: Practical, Legal and Cost Considerations” is a one hour CLE program offered by BlueStar to law firms and corporate clients. The presentation focuses on the application of best practices early in the litigation lifecycle to address legal issues and cost containment concerns. Early Case Assessment is discussed from the legal perspective, exploring the early decisions and best practices a practitioner needs to address for their client. The technical aspects of Early Case Assessment are highlighted by looking at software platforms used to cull large amounts of data quickly so that practitioners can identify case themes and strategy early in the litigation process. Jeremy Schaper CCST, CCSA, CCFA and Matthew Minor, JD present their unique experience and perspective on this popular subject. About the Speakers JEREMY SCHAPER Jeremy Schaper, a founder and Principal at BlueStar Case Solutions, Inc. (BlueStar), has a decade of legal industry software training and instructional design experience which includes CT Summation, LexisNexis Concordance End-User Trainer, Administrator and FYI Administrator certifications. Mr. Schaper conducts training for legal professionals at many Am Law Top 100 Firms throughout the country and speaks before numerous industry groups about legal technology and vendor services. Following his accomplishments as an in-house trainer at Winston and Strawn, Mr. Schaper helped launch BlueStar in 2003. BlueStar is a resource for litigation support, electronic discovery, forensic email analysis and compliance solutions, document imaging and coding, software training/sales, document hosting, legal staffing, and custom solutions for the legal industry. MATTHEW MINOR Matthew Minor is the newest member of the BlueStar team, joining the company as Chief General Counsel and head of the Legal Staffing Division in July 2009. Mr. Minor has been practicing for thirteen years, ten years of which have been dedicated to large-scale electronic litigation consultation and project management. He gained valuable experience in the law firm setting, with three years each as an attorney with Sidley Austin LLP and Sonnenschein Nath. Mr. Minor also has four years of experience as an independent litigation consultant, managing document review teams for various firms including Kirkland & Ellis, Skadden Arps, and Sidley Austin (prior to joining the firm). He has extensive case management experience and a proven ability to manage other attorneys, from small groups to dozens of team members. His knowledge in regard to E-Discovery, litigation management, and discovery software products helps to produce an efficient and accessible document review and production for his clients. Duration: 1 hour Credit Hours: 1 CLE credit hour (course credit application pending) For more information or to schedule a class, please contact: Desirée Salomon, BlueStar Case Solutions | dsalomon@bluestarcs.com | 312.939.3000

E-Discovery and Early Case Assessment CLE - We Bring it to Your Organization
BlueStar Case Solutions presents: E-Discovery and Early Case Assessment: Practical, Legal and Cost Considerations A one hour CLE course sponsored by BlueStar and conveniently presented to your firm or corporation in the comfort of your conference room. We encourage and can help with video conferencing your satellite or remote offices. Introduction “E-Discovery and Early Case Assessment: Practical, Legal and Cost Considerations” is a one hour CLE program offered by BlueStar to law firms and corporate clients. The presentation focuses on the application of best practices early in the litigation lifecycle to address legal issues and cost containment concerns. Early Case Assessment is discussed from the legal perspective, exploring the early decisions and best practices a practitioner needs to address for their client. The technical aspects of Early Case Assessment are highlighted by looking at software platforms used to cull large amounts of data quickly so that practitioners can identify case themes and strategy early in the litigation process. Jeremy Schaper CCST, CCSA, CCFA and Matthew Minor, JD present their unique experience and perspective on this popular subject. About the Speakers JEREMY SCHAPER Jeremy Schaper, a founder and Principal at BlueStar Case Solutions, Inc. (BlueStar), has a decade of legal industry software training and instructional design experience which includes CT Summation, LexisNexis Concordance End-User Trainer, Administrator and FYI Administrator certifications. Mr. Schaper conducts training for legal professionals at many Am Law Top 100 Firms throughout the country and speaks before numerous industry groups about legal technology and vendor services. Following his accomplishments as an in-house trainer at Winston and Strawn, Mr. Schaper helped launch BlueStar in 2003. BlueStar is a resource for litigation support, electronic discovery, forensic email analysis and compliance solutions, document imaging and coding, software training/sales, document hosting, legal staffing, and custom solutions for the legal industry. MATTHEW MINOR Matthew Minor is the newest member of the BlueStar team, joining the company as Chief General Counsel and head of the Legal Staffing Division in July 2009. Mr. Minor has been practicing for thirteen years, ten years of which have been dedicated to large-scale electronic litigation consultation and project management. He gained valuable experience in the law firm setting, with three years each as an attorney with Sidley Austin LLP and Sonnenschein Nath. Mr. Minor also has four years of experience as an independent litigation consultant, managing document review teams for various firms including Kirkland & Ellis, Skadden Arps, and Sidley Austin (prior to joining the firm). He has extensive case management experience and a proven ability to manage other attorneys, from small groups to dozens of team members. His knowledge in regard to E-Discovery, litigation management, and discovery software products helps to produce an efficient and accessible document review and production for his clients. Duration: 1 hour Credit Hours: 1 CLE credit hour (course credit application pending) For more information or to schedule a class, please contact: Desirée Salomon, BlueStar Case Solutions | dsalomon@bluestarcs.com | 312.939.3000

CLVS & Trial Presentation Symposium
This educational event offers two in-depth programs: the Certified Legal Video Specialist Seminar and the Trial Presentation Workshop. Certified Legal Video Specialist Certification Seminar: This Video in the Legal Environment Seminar will set you on your way to videotaping depositions and courtroom proceedings with confidence and skill and in accordance with accepted Rules of Civil Procedure. This is the first required step to earning your Certified Legal Video Specialist Certification. Trial Presentation Workshop: As courtrooms adopt new technologies, IT professionals, courtroom personnel, and trial presenters can find a wide range of equipment available in each new situation. This program will help attendees stay on top of their trial presentation game in a quickly changing world. A certificate exam will be given on-site. Register on or before May 31 and receive 10% off all 2 and 3 day registration packages.

Sophisticated Estate Planning Techniques
This annual advanced course of study, now in its 25th year and composed of over 13 hours of instruction, is designed for experienced estate planning practitioners. Last year’s registrants, who came from 20 different states, said: “A must for trusts and estates attorneys.” “The faculty was knowledgeable and made a relatively dry subject interesting.” “I have attended this excellent annual program for many years and hope it will be able to continue in today’s technological world. It is most personal and interactive.”

Retirement, Deferred Compensation, and Welfare Plans of Tax-Exempt and Governmental Employers
What are the likely near-term and long-term effects of health care reform on employer-sponsored health plans? What steps/options should you consider taking now to prepare? What are the next wave of IRS and DOL issues affecting 403(b) programs, including the implications of recent DOL guidance on non-ERISA status and form 5500 reporting and audits? What new guidance does the IRS have in store for church and governmental plans? How to deal with governmental plan IRS determination letters – Pension Protection Act amendments, filing tips, and responding to IRS reviewers How should 403(b) and other plan sponsors cope with new investment advice and fee disclosure rules? How does the new 409A correction guidance apply to 457(f) and other nonqualified plans? What changes are likely for nonqualified plans in view of expected IRS guidance on “substantial risks of forfeiture”? How will cash balance and other hybrid plans cope with expected IRS regulatory guidance on interest rates and other critical issues? If you don’t know the answers to these pressing questions, you need to attend this course this year! Ever since the course debuted in 1987, it has proven to be the most comprehensive and sophisticated program to focus on the myriad plans and special issues facing these types of employers.

Retirement, Deferred Compensation, and Welfare Plans of Tax-Exempt and Governmental Employers
Why Attend? What are the likely near-term and long-term effects of health care reform on employer-sponsored health plans? What steps/options should you consider taking now to prepare? What are the next wave of IRS and DOL issues affecting 403(b) programs, including the implications of recent DOL guidance on non-ERISA status and form 5500 reporting and audits? What new guidance does the IRS have in store for church and governmental plans? How to deal with governmental plan IRS determination letters – Pension Protection Act amendments, filing tips, and responding to IRS reviewers How should 403(b) and other plan sponsors cope with new investment advice and fee disclosure rules? How does the new 409A correction guidance apply to 457(f) and other nonqualified plans? What changes are likely for nonqualified plans in view of expected IRS guidance on “substantial risks of forfeiture”? How will cash balance and other hybrid plans cope with expected IRS regulatory guidance on interest rates and other critical issues? If you don’t know the answers to these pressing questions, you need to attend this course this year! Ever since the course debuted in 1987, it has proven to be the most comprehensive and sophisticated program to focus on the myriad plans and special issues facing these types of employers.

Advanced Estate Planning Techniques for Family Owned and Closely Held Businesses
This up-to-date and in-depth seminar examines a range of issues affecting estate planning and business succession planning for family owned and closely held businesses. Join the expert faculty as it explores a variety of sophisticated succession planning goals and techniques, including how to motivate the business owner to act; how to design a plan that provides the business owner (and his or her spouse) with a “retirement” income from the business; how to use both traditional and sophisticated tools and techniques to transfer the business to the next generation; and how to successfully use life insurance to accomplish all of these goals. Designed for both non-taxable and taxable estates, this intermediate to advanced course will benefit estate planners, trust officers, accountants, insurance agents, and others who advise business owners.

Intellectual Property (IP) Trademark, Copyright and Licensing Counsel Forum
The recent jump in web and mobile technology allows infinite threats to the intellectual property of corporations worldwide, but these same tools can also present a wide range of opportunities for new products and services to become profits. How will the law address our new digital reality? Recent cases, such as Authors Guild v. Google, are a good illustration of how the law intends to define whether it should be rigid in preventing the wide distribution of trademarked and copyrighted products and services or whether it will allow greater flexibility. Join fellow general counsel and IP counsel from leading organizations at Corporate Counsel's 2ND ANNUAL IP TRADEMARK, COPYRIGHT & LICENSING COUNSEL FORUM on September 14-15th at The Harvard Club of New York City, to delve into the following topics and more! * The New Practice of IP In House: Addressing the Digital Age * Copyrights & New Media: Is the Law keeping up with changes in technology? * Copyright Litigation: Learning from Recent Online Case Developments * Maximizing Resources to Protect Your Trademark Portfolio * IP, the New Commodity: Monetizing Your Copyrights and Trademarks * Trademark Protection Across Industries * Creating a Strong Licensing Program * Addressing Privacy & Ethics in Intellectual Property

Textual Relations: Text Messages and the Law
Textual Relations is everything you wanted to know about text messages, but were afraid to ask. 2.5 billion text messages are sent every day in the United States. Text messages are one of the most abundant forms of electronically stored information on the planet, with smart phones being able to also send email, Twitter updates and Facebook postings from the palm of your hand. Everyday people have lost jobs and politicians have ruined their lives because of text messages. “Textual Relations” addresses requests for production, privacy issues, expert testimony and admissibility concerns of Text messages. The material covers both recent civil and criminal cases where text messages were key evidence.

Virtual LEGALTECH
Virtual LEGALTECH is designed to bring the LegalTech experience to more people in a more economical manner. Like our well attended in-person events, virtual conferences present a blend of information and networking and network with potential clients using a variety of social networking tools built into an intuitive platform.

STAR 2010 Annual Convention
September 23 - 25, 2010 Orlando, Florida Buena Vista Palace in Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida, across the street from Downtown Disney, at Walt Disney World. Seminar Topics: • Smartphones – Technology and Beyond (Expert panel) • Case CATalyst Training (Vickie Main) -Indexing -Version 11 Highlights - Troubleshooting 101 • Treasures of the Digital Realm – Techno-Update for Everybody (Candis Bradshaw) • Standing Out in a Stagnant Economy (Ari Kaplan) • Cloud Computing (Dan Bistany) • Keeping Your Referrals in Orbit (Expert panel) • Diamante Facts and Fiction (Stenograph panel) • COD Doesn’t Have to be a Dirty Word (Candis Bradshaw) • LexisNexis and CaseViewNet (Expert panel) Mark your calendar now and watch your email for announcement of on-line registration for the STAR 2010 Annual Convention! If you’d like taste of the tidbits and tricks you can learn at a STAR conference, go to www.staronline.org now and look at Nick Rennillo’s PowerPoint presentation on the Blackberry from STAR's 2010 Mid-Year Conference. And while you’re there, look around at the rest of the STAR website. STAR is a proactive group of firm owners and reporters on the leading edge who come together twice a year in the spring and fall to exchange information and evaluate and learn about the most up-to-date technological products in our field through presentation and interaction by and with vendors and users. Conference seminars are conducted by technology leaders and programmers at Stenograph; the quality instruction cannot be beat! As a STAR member, you are eligible for many benefits and discounts. For a complete listing of them, please click here. To join STAR, just click here. You may also find this information on our website. Once you become a member, your company and personal name will be listed on our continually updated Online Membership Directory which allows for a member search.

Virtual LegalTech
Virtual LegalTech is a unique online experience that includes presentations, virtual booths, networking, chatting, blogs, and more. It’s everything you’d expect from a live conference, brought right to your computer.

STAR Annual Convention
Society for the Technological Advancement of Reporters Annual Convention

Maryland Court Reporters Association 2010 Convention
The recently renovated Wisp Resort is a mountainside hotel that offers an 18-hole golf course, a fitness center, a 30’ x 60’ inch pool and hot tub, and racquetball courts. For a little pampering, visit Sewickley Spa on the 2nd floor of the hotel. Take a scenic chairlift ride to the Pumphouse Café and watch the Adventure Sports Center’s Recirculating Whitewater Course while enjoying sandwiches, soups, pastries, and specialty coffees. In the evening, relax over a cocktail and dinner at DC’s Bar and Restaurant. After dinner, enjoy a bonfire or relax at Wispers Mountainside Bar. Stop by the Lodge almost any time for one of Starbucks’ famous blends or a latte, cappuccino, espresso, assorted Danishes, and other goodies.

4th Annual Hedge Fund General Counsel Summit
The hedge fund industry has operated under the threat of registration and regulation for years now. With the pro-regulation mindset of today, the threats are more real than ever. Corporate Counsel magazine's 4th Annual Hedge Fund General Counsel Summit will address the impending changes and offer concrete guidance on how your firm needs to be run to ensure compliance and to attract investor capital. Constructed for hedge fund general counsel by hedge fund general counsel, this event is your sole opportunity to investigate the changes coming to prepare and protect your fund today. Examine the current stte of the hedge fund industry with specific attention given to the regulatory concerns bearing down on the market. Protect your fund, your reputation and your ability to generate assets by fully understanding the legal risks and challenges facing the market today. Join us on Oct. 4th for a full day of exploration of the legal issues, questions and ramifications affecting the hedge fund industry. As investors cautiously return to the market, now is the time to make sure you are meeting their increased requirements while operating in the new legal landscape of increasing regulation and scrutiny. Designed for: * Hedge Fund General Counsel * Chief Legal Officers * Chief Compliance Officers * Law Firms * Hedge Fund Executives * Regulators & Government Officials