John Isaza teaches attorneys about the legal landscape surrounding legal holds and describes how to avoid ethical trouble, malpractice and jail. The main topics covered include legal holds & spoliation, hold policies and the seven steps for implementing legal holds. Further areas addressed include ESI (Electronically Stored Information), the duty to preserve, the spoliation of evidence doctrine, failure to preserve, sample hold policies, triggering events, the scope of the preservation duty, implementing the hold, enforcing & examining, modifying the legal hold, and monitoring & releasing the hold, and the legal hold oversight committee. Mr. Isaza is an eDiscovery and records information management specialist, with experience as a former trial attorney and General Counsel to a $1 billion market cap publicly traded (NASDAQ) medical device laser manufacturer now owned by Abbott Labs. His experience includes consulting services to Fortune 500 companies and he is a published and award-winning author regarding electronic discovery matters. His specialties include information governance, records and information management, general corporate and complex business litigation.
Practice Areas: Business Law | Criminal Law | Employment Law | Family Law | Intellectual Property | Litigation | Personal Injury | Real Property | Trusts and Estates | Bankruptcy
State Accreditations: California (CA)