Winter CLE About Personal Information

By Melloney Douce

On Monday December 10, 2007, the Technology Law Section, In-house Committee, hosted the Winter CLE luncheon at Alston & Bird, LLP. The CLE topic “Road Hazards on the Digital Highway: Litigation Risks Associated with Storing Personally Identifiable Information” was presented in a panel format with Katherine Bryant (Vice-President of Consumer Advocacy at ChoicePoint Inc.), James Jordan (Chief Privacy Officer at Checkfree) and David Keating (Partner in Alston & Bird LLP’s Technology Law Practice) as the speakers. The panel discussed the challenges many companies face when they collect personal information, emerging developments in e-discovery and the procedures and policies all companies should consider when they collect personal information.

We want to extend a special thanks to the panelists for their help with the program, Alston & Bird for hosting the lunch, Joanna Merrill for her help with the registration, Marisha Steward and Melloney Douce for organizing the meeting and John Hutchins for helping to promote this event.