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Death, Taxes and . . . Social Media? How Companies Can Adapt to the Social Media Age


Thursday, October 10, 2013
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET
Product Code - LGA195
Speaker(s): Charles W. Cohen, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP; Ignatius A. Grande, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP; Vincent M. Catanzaro, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
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In today's corporate world, just about all companies have seen the benefits of having a social media presence. A recent study by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research of the Fortune 500 found that Twitter was the most commonly used social media platform and that 77 percent of Fortune 500 companies had an active Twitter account. Social media is an especially effective way for companies to connect with their customers on a level that was previously not possible. It also provides a unique platform by which to get out messages and communications. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) conceded that social media is a good way for companies to communicate with its shareholders when it issued a report earlier this year stating that companies can use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to announce key information in compliance with Regulation Fair Disclosure (Regulation FD) as long as investors have been alerted about which social media platforms will be used to disseminate such information. For all of these reasons, it is more important than ever for in-house and outside counsel to know how to best manage and make use of social media.

Social media is slowly changing the way in which the world communicates, and attorneys need to be in a position to properly advise companies regarding the best ways to manage social media in each case in which they are involved. This program will benefit attendees who deal with social media from all perspectives, but the topic will especially speak to counsel whose practices are being more and more affected by social media.

Educational Objectives:

• Learn how to implement a social media policy.
• Understand the relationship between social media and litigation holds.
• Find out how to preserve and collect data from social media channels.
• Learn industry-specific requirements and expectations regarding social media use.
• Discover how to ethically obtain social media information for use in investigations and litigation.

Who would most benefit from attending this program?

In-house counsel with some responsibility over social media use and content or any outside counsel would benefit from attending this program.

Program Level: Intermediate.

Credit Available: CLE. For more information, please click on the “CLE Credit” tab.

Charles W. Cohen, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP; Ignatius A. Grande, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP; Vincent M. Catanzaro, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company

Charles W. Cohen, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Charles Cohen is a co-chair of the eDiscovery Practice Group at Hughes Hubbard & Reed and a co-chair of the firm's Technology Committee. He has a national and international litigation and e-discovery and litigation practice and has appeared in numerous federal and state courts across the country.

Mr. Cohen is a graduate of Brooklyn College and Georgetown University Law Center and is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.

Ignatius A. Grande, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Ignatius Grande is Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s Senior Discovery Attorney/Director of Practice Support. He advises case teams and clients on how to best leverage the latest technologies and e-discovery practices from initial document preservation and collection through to review and production. Mr. Grande also advises clients on the management of their social media presence and in the preservation and collection of social media information.

Mr. Grande is a graduate of Yale College and Georgetown University Law Center and is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut.

Vincent M. Catanzaro, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
Vincent Catanzaro is Senior Counsel, Global Discovery Manager for E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. In this role, he is responsible for counseling the company concerning how best to comply with evolving legal standards relating to discovery; guiding and supporting the legal teams in the development of e-discovery response strategies and the use of litigation technology; coordinating, managing and monitoring the work of the company’s discovery vendors; and overseeing du Pont Legal’s Discovery Excellence Center.

Mr. Catanzaro earned an undergraduate degree from Temple University and a J.D. from Widener University School of Law, where he served on the Student Bar Association and the Legal Skills Committee. He is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the State of New Jersey, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the State of Delaware for the limited practice of law as in-house counsel.

This program’s CLE-credit eligibility varies by state. Bloomberg BNA is an accredited provider in the states of New York*, California, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia, and most other jurisdictions grant CLE credit on a per-program basis. At this time, Bloomberg BNA does not apply directly to the states of Florida, Rhode Island, Montana and Hawaii although credit is usually available for attorneys who wish to apply individually. Additionally, the following states currently do not grant credit for Bloomberg BNA OnDemand programming: Arkansas, Ohio, Nebraska, and Delaware. All requests are subject to approval once the live webinar has taken place or the customer has viewed the OnDemand version. Please contact the Bloomberg BNA accreditations desk if you have specific questions that have not been addressed.

If you have further questions regarding a specific state or how to file for CLE credit, please contact Bloomberg BNA customer service at 800-372-1033 and ask to speak to the CLE Accreditation Coordinator.

Hardship Policy
For information regarding Bloomberg BNA’s Hardship Policy, please visit the Continuing Education Information page.

Questions
For more information about Mandatory or Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) requirements, visit the American Bar Association website at http://www.abanet.org/cle/mandatory.html.

*Bloomberg BNA is an accredited provider in New York for experienced attorneys only.

• Bloomberg BNA Subscriber - Webinar and OnDemand formats $149
• Non-Subscriber - Webinar and OnDemand formats $224
• CD with webinar registration $75
• CD without webinar registration $224 / $149

Only paid registrants are eligible for CLE credit for both webinars and OnDemand offerings.

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