Press Release

CGOC Announces the 4th Annual Summit
Focusing on retention and preservation practices to reduce cost and risk

Mountain View, CA — January 2, 2008 — The CGOC, a practitioners community focused on retention and preservation, announced that its 4th annual Summit will be held January 23 through 25 in Palm Springs, California. This year’s theme is “Knowledge is Power, Ignorance is Expensive.” Corporate thought leaders will share how they’ve used new-found knowledge of holds, custodians, and retention practices to reduce cost and risk and to increase the quality of information they provide other company executives.

“The convergence of retention and legal holds is more pressing than ever. Over the last year attention, legal executives have escalated awareness of how much data is being actually retained, how much data is on hold, and how that affects the costs of discovery and review,” said Deidre Paknad, President and CEO of PSS Systems, and founder of the CGOC. “Dealing with legacy data, avoiding reckless data accumulation, enabling disposal, and risk and cost transparency are strategic issues in 2008 and the focus of this year’s Summit.”

The Summit will provide major corporate success stories and working tools, including:

A legal and operational framework for dispositioning legacy data
Costing models for predicting discovery cost, corporate case studies on integrating retention and preservation to reduce cost and risk
Guidance on modernizing your global retention program
Benchmarks for legal holds across industries to use in enhancing your own processes
How to ensure your preservation practice functions as both a sword and a shield
A complimentary copy of CGOC 2008 Journal

Speakers are genuine practice leaders at their corporations and the setting provides the opportunity to engage both in group and one on one settings. Faculty includes:

John Barber, Legal Operations Manager, Amgen, Inc
Kevin F. Brady, Partner, Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP
Matthew I. Cohen, Director, AlixPartners LLC
Jim Daley, Partner, Redgrave, Daley, Regan & Wagner
Kathleen Harris, Senior Vice President, Discovery and Regulatory Response Team, Office of the General Counsel Merrill Lynch
Kathy D. Hogy, Director, Legal Discovery, First Data Corporation
Ian Katz, Senior Counsel, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Thomas M. Lahiff Jr., former Assistant General Counsel, Citigroup
Thomas A. Lidbury, Partner, Mayer Brown
Nancy Loomis, Compliance Operations Senior Manager, Amgen, Inc.
Lorrie Luellig, Records Attorney and Retention SME, Ryley Carlock & Applewhite
Jim Mitchell, Managing Director, Huron Consulting
Deidre Paknad, President and CEO of PSS Systems, founder, CGOC
Harry Pugh, Global Program Manager for Records Management, Citigroup
Eric Saltzman, CFO and General Counsel, PSS Systems
Ralph Shalom, Assistant General Counsel, First Data Corporation
Ronald J. Hedges, former U.S. Magistrate Judge, Counsel, Nixon Peabody, LLC

Alix Partners, Baker Robbins, Huron Consulting, and Ryley Carlock & Applewhite are event sponsors. PSS Systems is lead sponsor and founding organization for CGOC. Participation in this strategic session is by invitation only. For more information visit www.cgocouncil.com/summit08.

About CGOC
The CGOC is a community of experts in retention and preservation. Its charter is to create a forum in which legal and compliance executives can get the insight, interaction, and information they need to make good business decisions. It fulfills its charter through an annual CGOC Summit, educational lunch series, executive workshops, and fall working sessions. CGOC Sidebar is a forum for outside counsel assisting corporate clients with preservation and retention programs. The organization was founded by Deidre Paknad, CEO of PSS Systems and a visionary in retention and preservation solutions, to create a continuing, high quality executive level exchange of expertise and information on these fast-changing business issues. For more information visit www.cgocouncil.com.

About PSS Systems
PSS Systems started the legal holds and retention management software revolution in the early 2000s by envisioning a change in the legal requirements corporations would have to comply with. Its Atlas software suite consists of two components that when used together reduce cost and risk. Atlas LCC streamlines the legal holds and collection processes end to end, while Atlas ERM enables corporate retention programs across disparate business units, information sources, and systems. Today, PSS Systems continues to lead the industry through their unparalleled innovation and has become the thought leader on retention and preservation topics. It founded and sponsors the CGOC, a professional community on retention and preservation. PSS Systems is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices throughout the United States including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston. For more information visit www.pss-systems.com.

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