BLOOMFIELD HILLS – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder

Carol Romej recently was a featured speaker at a Document Retention and Destruction seminar in Southfield. Her topic was: Modern Concepts in Data and Records Management.

Based in Butzel Long�??s Bloomfield Hills office, Romej co-chairs the firm�??s Electronic Records and Discovery Practice Group and the firm�??s Technology and

E-Commerce Practice Group.

Romej has served as General Counsel to two major technology companies, managing in-house legal issues and coordinating the work of national outside counsel. Romej has extensive experience in preparing technology licensing agreements (with a proficiency in developing such agreements with unique engineering aspects and technology alliances); outsourcing agreements, and web and online agreements and policies; developing and implementing strategies for electronic and forensic discovery for internal corporate audits, investigations, and litigation; managing and selecting tools and vendors for electronic data acquisition; counseling and litigation on protecting Intellectual Property and Internet security issues; electronic record retention and litigation suspension procedures; and other issues regarding doing global business on the Internet.

Romej’s practice includes the implementation and review of e-discovery and data and records retention protocols, ensuring that an organization’s records management policies and procedures are realistic, practical and tailored to the circumstances of the organization and that legal holds and preservation efforts are efficient, cost-effective and defensible. Romej has experience in representing clients in proceedings brought by the Federal Trade Commission regarding Internet and marketing practices.

Romej also is experienced in all aspects of health information technology (“health IT”). She has worked with groups to activate their on-line health medical records (“EMRs”), including clinical decision supports that aid clinical decision making, health records exchange systems and patient identification systems. She has worked with health IT used in clinical ancillaries, such as laboratory and radiology systems and terminologies systems. Romej and other members of the health IT practice group work with biomedical devices, including network connected devices, wired and wireless, in hospitals and ancillary settings.

Romej is knowledgeable about the development of the Nationwide Health Information Network (“NHIN”), a potential platform for a secure, interoperable health-information infrastructure that will connect providers, consumers and others to be built out of state and regional health information exchanges (“HIEs”). She is knowledgeable about interoperability standards, or the lack thereof, to connect these networks and systems. Romej has experience with population health IT used for bio-surveillance, public health reporting, disease registries and statistical analysis. Finally, her health IT experience extends to include the administrative and financial sector’s use of health IT for billing, claims, scheduling and other administrative systems.

Romej is on the adjunct faculty for the Walsh College Information Assurance Center. Walsh College is designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency. The Information Assurance Center at Walsh College provides organizations with education, information and training in electronic forensics, cyber threats and internet security issues. Romej is on the adjunct faculty of Washtenaw Community College, Center for Information Assurance and Systems Security. A frequent lecturer and presenter, she has also authored or co-authored many works, including a chapter on Electronic Commerce for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education. Romej is a frequent author and speaker on E-Commerce.

Romej�??s professional memberships include: the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the AAA Task Force on International Exchange of Documentary and Electronic Materials, Commentary Group; ARMA International; Michigan Council of Women in Technology; the State Bar of Michigan; the American Bar Association; the Ann Arbor IT Zone; Automation Alley; and the New Enterprise Forum.

Romej is a graduate of Wayne State University Law School (LL.M., Corporate and Finance Law), Michigan State University College of Law (J.D.), Eastern Michigan University (B.B.A., Accounting), and the University of Michigan (B.A., Economics).

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