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The Autumn 2009 program is no longer accepting applications
Next program starts: Autumn 2010
Details will be posted in Spring
Single courses may be available
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Interested in taking a single class? Some courses (designated by a 
below) may be open on a space-available basis to professionals who are not seeking the certificate. See Single-Course Enrollment for details.
Autumn Course
Electronic Discovery and the Law
Schedule: Thursdays, 6:00-9:00 p.m., Oct. 8-Dec. 17, 2009 (no class Nov. 26), 3 CEUs. $875
Instructor: Gregory Shelton.
This course will present a broad view of the legal framework governing electronic discovery. Students will obtain an understanding of how organizations and enterprises generate and store electronically stored documents ("ESI"), learn why ESI is important to the discovery process, understand the consequences for failing to fulfill discovery and preservation obligations, and learn how ESI is admitted and used at trial.
Topics will include:
- Overview of the legal system and federal and state course structure
- The discovery process in litigation
- Overview of civil procedure rules, including the 2006 E-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- E-discovery rules in Washington
- Overview of evidentiary rules and their relation to ESI
- Creation, storage, and duty to preserve
- Collection and searching techniques
- Metadata, electronic messaging, voicemail, and email
- Confidentiality, privilege, privacy, and ethics issues
- International challenges
Winter Course
Records Management for Litigation Readiness
Schedule: Thursdays, 6:00-9:00 p.m., Jan. 7 - March 11, 2010, 3 CEUs. $875.
Instructor: Charlene Brownlee.
Students will learn how to apply the key principles of records management to the unique and rapidly evolving challenge of managing electronic records. Topics will include:
- Understanding how the records lifecycle applies to digital data
- Email management systems and archives
- New technologies and record retention
- Federal requirements for including recordkeeping in agency electronic information systems
- The National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) Toolkit for Managing Electronic Records
- A survival guide for IT professionals, including an understanding of spoliation of electronic evidence and "safe harbor"
- Preservation, legal holds, and accessibility as applied to electronic records
- Best methods for assessing litigation readiness
How to sign up for individual enrollment in this course
Spring Course
The Collection, Review, and Production of Electronic Evidence for Litigation
Schedule: Thursdays, 6:00-9:00 p.m., April 1-June 3, 2010, 3 CEUs. $875.
Instructor: Lynn Reilly
Students will follow the electronic discovery process chronologically through the stages of discovery. They will gain an understanding of how to manage an e-discovery project, become aware of issues to consider at each stage of the process, and enhance their functional knowledge of how to collect, process, review, and produce electronically stored information.
Topics will include:
- Project planning, with attention to the role of clients, paralegals, vendors, and technical support personnel
- Considerations in drafting and responding to discovery requests
- Negotiations regarding production content and format
- Identification of custodians and data stores and custodian interviews
- Preservation obligations
- Litigation holds: issuing and tracking them
- Considerations in selecting a method of collecting and reviewing data
- Preserving metadata and chain of custody
- Software demonstrations, including concept analyzing software and other review tools and litigation support databases
- Trial support and presentation of electronic evidence
