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 | Randy V. Sabett, J.D., CISSP Randy V. Sabett, J.D., CISSP, is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP, where he is a member of the Internet, Communications & Data Protection practice group and the Intellectual Property & Technology practice group. He counsels clients on information security, privacy, IT licensing, and patents, dealing with such issues as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), digital and electronic signatures, federated identity, HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Sarbanes-Oxley, state and federal information security laws, identity theft, and security breaches. Mr. Sabett is a Commissioner for the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency and has been recognized as a leader in Privacy & Data Security in the 2007, 2008, and 2009 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. |
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 | Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola Magistrate Judge Facciola was appointed a United States Magistrate Judge in August 1997. He received an A.B. in 1966 from the College of the Holy Cross and a J.D. in 1969 from the Georgetown University Law Center. Following law school, Magistrate Judge Facciola served as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan from 1969 to 1973, and was in private practice in the District of Columbia from 1974 to 1982. He joined the U.S. Attorney's Office in 1982 and served as Chief of the Special Proceedings section from 1989 until his appointment as Magistrate Judge. Magistrate Judge Facciola is an adjunct professor of law at Catholic University. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the Board of Governors of the John Carroll Society. |
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 | Regan Adams, Esq., CIPP Regan Adams is the Founder and CEO of Cyber Security Assurance, LLC a legal and advisory Information Law practice and Enterprise Information Risk consulting business. Regan Adams is former Assistant Privacy Counsel and Counsel of Legal and Regulatory Retention for Regan is a former prosecutor and trial attorney. Her experience includes SEC investigations, complex securities litigation, and global regulatory and discovery matters. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP). |
| Steve Akers |
| Gary Amos Gary Amos is a Professor of Forensic Technology at George Mason University and consultant. He is a Virginia attorney, a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE), and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Gary has broad experience in computer forensics and e-discovery. He was the lead digital forensic investigator in the $400 million dollar Banco Progreso bank fraud case in the Dominican Republic. The evidence developed in that case resulted in civil judgments of $31 million and $85 million against the bank's former president, a ten year jail sentence, and a $308 million (11 billion peso) criminal fine. |
| Christina Ayiotis Christina Ayiotis is Group Counsel for E-Discovery and Data Privacy at CSC, a 90,000 person leading global consulting, systems integration and outsourcing company. She is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Washington University where she teaches Information Policy as part of their Master’s Program in Computer Security and Information Assurance. Prior to CSC, she led Booz Allen Hamilton’s Integrated Records and Information Management Program. She has more than 20 years experience in the professional services field, having also worked in global knowledge management for Ernst & Young International and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. She is a Certified Records Manager active in ARMA International. She also belongs to the Fairfax Bar Association and the Women’s Bar Association of DC, among others. |
 | Deborah Baron Deborah Baron is Vice President of Legal and Compliance at Autonomy, Inc., where she is responsible for electronic discovery services across the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) and oversees company contributions to industry standards and thought leadership. Deborah is on the Advisory Board of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) and represents Autonomy in The Sedona Conference® WG1 and WG6. She conducts MCLE courses, authors articles, moderates panels on Best Practices in eDiscovery and Information Risk Management. Ms. Baron and her firm provide software and hosted services to assist attorneys in search, analysis, production and management of electronic data for compliance, litigation and operational efficiency. |
 | Jason R. Baron Director of Litigation National Archives and Records Administration Jason R. Baron serves as Director of Litigation for the National Archives and Records Administration, and is an internationally recognized speaker and author on the preservation of electronic records. He was recently named Co-Chair of The Sedona Conference® Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production, having served on the Steering Committee since 2007. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Sedona Conference Best Practices Commentary on the Use of Search and Information Retrieval Methods in E-Discovery (2007), and Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Sedona Conference Commentary on Achieving Quality in the E-Discovery Process (2009). Mr. Baron has been a trial lawyer and senior counsel with the Department of Justice, a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland. |
 | Courtney Ingraffia Barton Courtney Ingraffia Barton is Senior Discovery Counsel in the Corporate Legal Department at AOL LLC. She manages complex issues related to litigation preparedness and readiness, compliance, legal holds, and electronic discovery processes for both litigation and regulatory matters. Prior to joining AOL, she had extensive experience advising clients on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure related to electronically stored information (ESI), records and information management, technology assessments, cost considerations, ethics and international and global data issues. Courtney is also an accomplished litigator, specializing in products liability, toxic tort and environmental matters. She served as a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice from 2004-2005. Courtney is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP). |
 | K. David Benton, CFCE, EnCE, CISSP K. David Benton has spent the past ten consecutive years collecting and processing digital evidence. Mr. Benton has served in leadership positions from The Home Depot, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the US Army. |
 | Stephanie A. “Tess” Blair As leader of eData, Ms. Blair works with Morgan Lewis attorneys and clients to develop and implement strategies and cutting-edge technologies for successfully managing complex litigation matters, with an emphasis on electronic discovery. As a nationally recognized thought leader in electronic discovery, Ms. Blair has developed industry-leading “best practices” designed to provide clients with state-of-the-art records and discovery management, knowledge sharing, and collaboration resources. The eData team plays a large role in defending clients in corporate matters, including product liability, mass torts, antitrust, M&A, regulatory, white collar, compliance, construction, insurance coverage, and complex commercial litigation. |
 | Paul J. Bohr Paul J. Bohr is an attorney in the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to joining the SEC, he practiced transactional law and commercial litigation in the Washington, DC office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He has an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame School of Law, where he was Managing Editor of the Notre Dame Law Review. Prior to attending law school, he served as an active-duty U.S. Army officer. |
 | Allison L. Brecher Allison L. Brecher is a Senior Litigation Counsel and Director of Information Management & Strategy of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., a global financial services company based in New York. Allison coordinates and oversees the search and collection of electronic records in the context of litigation, subpoenas, government investigations, internal audits, and similar matters. She was recently selected to become a member of the Advisory Board of the Georgetown University Law Center’s E-Discovery Institute. She frequently writes and speaks about emerging issues relating to electronic discovery and records management. She co-authored the book E-Discovery Plain and Simple (available June 2009), which offers a “plain English” crash course in electronic discovery and information technology. Allison graduated from DePaul University College of Law. |
 | His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC Judge Brown is committed to cost-effective and efficient case management, both in his own court and outside it, and in particularly as to the importance of electronic disclosure. He has been involved from its inception in the UK-based e-Disclosure Information Project being run by Chris Dale. He has recently participated in the Sedona Conference cross-border conference in Barcelona. He is currently assisting with the areas of Electronic Disclosure and Costs Management in business cases in the major review of litigation costs in UK by Lord Justice Jackson. Over the past two years he has developed an interactive website for all the Mercantile Courts in England & Wales. |
 | Patrick Burke Patrick Burke is a Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel for Guidance Software. He works with corporate legal departments in the United States and Europe implementing defensible in-house e-discovery processes. He also writes and speaks regularly on the intersection between e-discovery law and technology and serves on the Sedona Conference Working Groups 1 and 6. |
| William P. Butterfield William P. Butterfield, is a partner at Hausfeld LLP in Washington, D.C. He focuses his practice on antitrust litigation and electronic discovery. Mr. Butterfield has testified as an expert witness on e-discovery issues, and speaks on that topic at numerous conferences domestically and abroad. Mr. Butterfield is on the Steering Committee of The Sedona Conference® Working Group 1, where he is editor-in-chief of the Case for Cooperation (2009), and was a co-editor of The Sedona Conference® Commentary On Preservation, Identification and Management of Sources of Information that are Not Reasonably Accessible (2008). He is also a member of Sedona Conference® Working Group 6 on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure. Mr. Butterfield also serves on the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center’s Advanced E-Discovery Institute. |
 | Craig R. Carpenter, Esq. Mr. Carpenter has extensive experience in the e-discovery, enterprise software and information security industries, and is a frequent speaker and panelist at many of the leading e-discovery events. Mr. Carpenter is also a advocate with key industry groups like the EDRM Project and the Sedona Conference. Mr. Carpenter’s articles on key issues in information security, compliance, policy management, knowledge management and e-discovery have been published in many top publications, including EDRM Quarterly, e-discovery Advisor, ILTA Magazine, KM World, TODAY Magazine, Processor Magazine, and DM Review. Additionally, Mr. Carpenter is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco where he teaches graduate classes on content management, digital rights management (DRM) and high tech marketing. |
 | Shawnna Childress Shawnna Childress is a Director at LECG, Co-Author of the newly published book eDiscovery Plain & Simple, and also the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Women in eDiscovery. Ms. Childress has more than 15 years of experience in the legal services industry. At LECG, Ms. Childress’ main area of expertise is in the area of Electronic Discovery, Litigation Readiness and Data Analysis with a focus on strategic consulting, identification, preservation, collection, extraction, review, and production of electronic records in support of all phases of litigations, investigations, and litigation preparedness initiatives. Ms. Childress assists Corporations and their Counsel with their data and systems and the laws that regulate them to decrease the cost and risk associated with e-discovery and information management. |
 | Alexandra E. Chopin Alexandra Chopin is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Patton Boggs LLP, where she focuses her practice in general commercial civil litigation. Ms. Chopin has represented clients in litigation, bankruptcy and in agency and congressional investigations, and extensively in the fields of banking and securities, health care, consumer protection and defamation. She has successfully tried cases before state and federal trial and appellate courts and administrative agencies, as well as in alternative dispute resolution. Ms. Chopin served as law clerk to the Honorable C. Lynwood Smith, Jr. (N.D. Alabama). |
| William H. Connolly William Connolly is Managing Director of Stroz Friedberg’s Boston office where he actively supervises digital forensics, cybercrime, and electronic discovery projects for major law firms and corporations involved in civil, criminal, regulatory, and internal corporate matters. Among his recent cases, he supervised a team that conducted covert surveillance and forensic analysis of the computers of a group of employees who were stealing vital intellectual property and trade secrets from their employer, a major defense contractor. Stroz Friedberg’s compelling analyses enabled the employer to obtain a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the employees and their new employer, preventing the dissemination or use of the stolen information and securing its return. |
 | David Cowen David is a subject matter expert in staffing and recruiting legal e-discovery and executive searches. With 20 years of experience, he lectures and writes extensively on "the war for talent," focusing on legal support technologies, innovations and their impact on complex litigation and e-discovery. More than just a headhunter, David focuses on managing and developing the talent he places, building relationships and hands-on in-depth market analysis including industry trends and salary surveys. |
| Larry Creech |
| Nicholas Croce Nicholas Croce, President of Inference Data, has led the creation and development of Inference, the company’s next generation analytics software for electronic discovery. By developing a strategic partnership with Autonomy, Inference’s use of the Autonomy IDOL™ engine has made it the legal industry’s most advanced data mining and analytical software. Prior to forming Inference, Mr. Croce served as President of DOAR Litigation Consulting, where he was responsible for driving DOAR’s introduction of ground-breaking technologies for courtroom presentation that are used by the nation’s largest law firms and Fortune 1000 corporations. Mr. Croce graduated from Hofstra University with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, with a concentration in Computer Engineering and dual minors in Mathematics and Computer Science. |
 | Conor R. Crowley Conor R. Crowley is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of electronic discovery and information management, who provides strategic and tactical advice to both corporate and law firm clients on all aspects of electronic discovery and e-compliance. Conor is a member of the Steering Committee for The Sedona Conference Working Group on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention and Production in addition to being a Senior Editor of a number of The Sedona Conference’s publications including The Sedona Conference Commentary on Legal Holds and The Sedona Principles (Second Edition). He is also a contributing Editor of The Sedona Conference® Framework for Analysis Of Cross‐Border Discovery Conflicts. |
 | Wendy Curtis Ms. Curtis, special counsel for e-discovery, is a member of the Litigation Division. Before joining Orrick, Ms. Curtis was a senior associate at Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P. |
 | Chris Dale Chris Dale qualified as an English solicitor in 1980. He runs the e-Disclosure Information Project which disseminates information about the court rules, the problems, and the technology. He writes the UK’s only authoritative and objective web site and blog on the subject and is a well-known speaker in the UK and elsewhere. |
 | Frederica Darema Dr. Darema's interests and technical contributions span the development of parallel applications, parallel algorithms, programming models, environments, and performance methods and tools for the design of applications and of software for parallel and distributed systems. Dr. Darema has been at NSF since 1994, where she has developed initiatives for new systems software technologies (the Next Generation Software Program, and later the Computer Systems Research Program), and research at the interface of neurobiology and computing (the Biological Information Technology and Systems Program). She has led the DDDAS (Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems) efforts including the synonymous cross-Directorate and cross-agency competition, and has also been involved in other cross-Directorate efforts such as the Information Technology Research, the Nanotechnolgy Science and Engineering, the Scalable Enterprise Systems, and the Sensors Programs. |
 | Gina M. Day, Esq. Gina M. Day serves as a legal consultant for Kroll Ontrack. With over nine years of experience in complex litigation and alternative dispute resolution, Ms. Day helps guide other attorneys and legal professionals through the complexities inherent in the collection, production and use of electronic evidence. She provides information and advice on legal technology issues concerning electronic discovery, computer forensics and the incorporation of traditional paper discovery into a unified electronic review platform. As a former litigator, Ms. Day has handled and assisted in all aspects of litigation, arbitration and mediation. In many types of cases, including commercial contract, construction, employment law disputes and insurance coverage matters. Prior to joining Kroll Ontrack, Ms. Day was an Associate at Crowell & Moring, LLP, Baach. |
 | Nishan C. DeSilva, Nishan DeSilva leads the Watson Wyatt Worldwide global initiative to develop and implement an enterprise-wide electronic content and records management program. The program utilizes an enterprise records and content management solution that focuses on converting paper records to electronic and updating current business processes. Nishan is a recognized industry expert on information and records management with extensive publishing and presentation experience, including the “Lessons from the Trenches” series that appeared in Infonomics magazine and several speaking engagements with the most recent being at the 2009 AIIM Expo (Association for Information and Image Management) where he spoke on “Bringing Together Technology, Business Process, and Records Management for a Successful Enterprise Implementation”. He is a certified electronic records management master (erm2) by AIIM and is an advisor to the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). |
 | Mira Vayda Edelman, Esq. |
 | Carmen Oveissi Field |
| | Richard Finkelman |
 | Bryan Foster Bryan Foster serves as Pitney Bowes' subject matter expert in the realm of electronic discovery and litigation document outsourcing. Bryan's experience has been honed over a 15 year career, during which time he has consulted for many Fortune 100 and AMLAW 200 clients involved in large class action, multi-district litigations. He understands not only the technology behind electronic discovery, but also the people and processes needed to ensure developing a defensible strategy. Before joining Pitney Bowes, Bryan was the founder of a startup electronic discovery company, which he grew to 20 locations and two data centers providing various services across the EDRM coast to coast. |
 | Dean Gonsowski, Esq. Dean holds over a decade of e-discovery consulting and legal practice experience. He is a member of The Sedona Conference (WG1) and EDRM and teaches continuing legal education courses on e-discovery. He has been quoted in leading industry publications including the California Lawyer, KM World and the ABA Journal. |
 | Maura R. Grossman Maura R. Grossman is Counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, in New York, where she advises the firm and its client on legal, technical and strategic issues involving electronic discovery and information management, both in the U.S. and abroad, as well as on matters of legal ethics. Maura has represented Fortune 100 companies and major financial institutions in corporate and securities litigation, including both civil actions and white-collar criminal and regulatory investigations. She is a member of The Sedona Conference® Working Groups on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1) and International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure (WG6). Maura also serves as a Topic Authority in the Legal Track of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), and is a past member of the Bar of the City of New York’s Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics. In addition to her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, Maura also holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical/School Psychology. |
 | Ronald J. Hedges Ronald J. Hedges is a former United States Magistrate Judge who now consults on, among other things, electronic discovery and records management issues. He is a member of, among other things, the advisory boards of The Sedona Conference and the Georgetown University Law Center Advanced E-Discovery Institute. Ron is also a member of the adjunct faculty of Georgetown, where he teaches an introductory course on electronic discovery and evidence. He has written extensively on electronic discovery and other topics and will coauthor with Jeane Thomas a new edition of Discovery of Electronically Stored Information: Surveying the Legal Landscape (BNA:2007). |
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| | Dawson Horn |
 | Jeffrey Jacobs, Esq., Mr. Jacobs leads Daticon EED's national e-discovery consulting practice, where he assists corporate and law firm clients with e-discovery process design, validation and execution, litigation readiness, and records and e-mail management and retention issues. Jeff has over 20 years of experience as an in-house and outside litigation counsel; much of it spent executing or managing complex electronic discovery matters. |
| Trevor Jefferies Trevor Jefferies’ practice includes general and commercial litigation, with a current emphasis on aviation, insurance, and e-discovery matters. He has tried cases and argued appeals in courts in Texas, and handled complex litigation in New York, Washington, D.C. and Florida, as well as in Texas. In addition to his litigation practice, Trevor consults with corporations seeking to minimize their exposure through contractual and structural methods. He has also handled matters pertaining to the Warsaw and Montreal Conventions on Carriage of Passengers by Air, the Hague Convention on Discovery Abroad, and the effect of the European Commission (EC) Directive on the protection of personal data on discovery in U.S. litigation. |
| | Margaret M. Johnson Margaret M. Johnson, Esq. has approximately 13 years experience as the Senior Vice President & General Counsel, corporate compliance and Governance matters of inner city health care facilities. Ms. Johnson, Esq. was the SVP & General Counsel of MediSys Health Network, Inc., New York. Ms. Johnson, Esq. is a graduate from Providence College and St. John’s University, School of Law. She is a former council member of the New York State Hospital Review & Planning Council (SHRPC). The Council is an advisory to the NYS Department of Health in carrying out State healthcare strategies. Her SHRPC Committee memberships included the Planning Committee, Project Review Committee, Fiscal Policy Committee, Information Systems Review Committee, Health IT Committee, and Codes and Regulations Committee. |
| | Chuck Kellner Chuck works onsite with corporate and outside counsel and IT personnel to preserve, collect, search, and produce electronic data used in litigation, mergers and acquisitions and government investigations. He assists in early case assessment, negotiating scope of discovery, and preparing for meet-and-confer. He helps Anacomp clients to reduce discovery costs through defensible methods to search and cull, and through optimizing reviews for production. During his career he has developed protocols for exchange of electronic data in myriad proceedings, including those before the Justice Department, the FTC and the FDA. He has testified on issues of cost and burden, cost shifting, scope and sufficiency of discovery, and on computer forensic findings in fraud and trade secrets litigations. Chuck holds a JD from Lewis & Clark Law School and B.A. from Brandeis University. |
| | David Kessler |
 | Beth A. Koehler, Esq. Beth Koehler is a legal consultant for Kroll Ontrack, providing legal technology solutions and services to manage the informational needs of businessesmand law firms. Additionally, Ms. Koehler advises clients on the technical aspects of electronic and paper discovery, providing expertise and critical solutions when large quantities of e-mail, electronic documents and other computer data are involved. As an expert in the trends and legal responsibilities associated with electronic evidence collection, review and production, Ms. Koehler counsels clients on discovery requests involved in litigation and investigatory matters. Prior to joining Kroll Ontrack, Ms. Koehler was a special counsel on the trial team for the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight where she handled voluminous electronic document productions. Ms. Koehler is licensed to practice law in the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia. |
| | Kon Leong Kon Leong is co-founder and CEO of ZL Technologies, Inc. For fifteen years, he has been immersed in cutting-edge storage and archiving technology, including co-founding GigaLabs, which produced ultra-high-speed storage networking switches. Earlier, he worked as First-Vice-President of Mergers and Acquisitions at Deutsche Bank as well as at General Motors’ Treasurer’s Office in New York, managing GM’s high tech portfolio and strategic ventures. He earned an MBA from Wharton with Distinction and an undergraduate degree from Concordia U. (Loyola). |
 | John Loveland John Loveland specializes in providing strategic counsel and expert witness services on matters related to large end-to-end discovery matters and computer forensic investigations. He has over 18 years experience in consulting to multi-national corporations and law firms and has led or contributed to over 100 investigations of theft of electronic data and computer fraud and abuse and collections of electronic evidence from hard drives, back-up tapes, network servers, cell phones and blackberries and other storage media. John was the Founder and President of S3 Partners a computer forensics firm which was acquired by Fios, Inc. author of the Second Edition of Hacking Exposed – Computer Forensics Secrets & Solutions published by McGraw Hill. |
 | Browning Marean Browning E. Marean is Senior Counsel in DLA Piper’s San Diego office, and is one of the worldwide leaders of the firm's e-discovery task force. He advises firm clients about best practices for the preservation of electronic data and meeting the other challenges of e-discovery in a cost effective manner. He is co-chair of the firm’s Electronic Discovery Readiness and Response Group and is a member of the firm’s Litigation Group. He is a frequent and an internationally known teacher and lecturer on various topics including electronic discovery and computer technology. |
 | Bruce S. Markowitz Bruce S. Markowitz, ECMP is the Director of Litigation Support with |
| | Thomas F. Matzen, Esq. Mr. Matzen, is a Sr. Manager with Intelligent Discovery Solutions (“iDS”) in Washington, D.C. who brings over seven years of experience in the fields of consulting, data collection, data preservation, litigation hold execution, data analyses, advance search technologies, data repository use and data production. Domestic and international matters alike, Mr. Matzen has experience in developing work plans for complex cases and executing them in accordance with industry best practices. Mr. Matzen is well educated in the latest electronic discovery case law and best practices in the industry and is currently pursuing forensic certifications. Most of the matters Mr. Matzen consults on concerns cross-border e-discovery resulting in unique experiences with foreign blocking statues and data privacy laws. Mr. Matzen is a recognized consultant on international litigation matters. |
 | Wayne A. McNulty |
 | Caitlin Murphy |
Chris Olsen | |
 | Monica J. Palko Monica Palko joined BearingPoint in 2003 and remained with the company until after its Chapter 11 filing in 2009. Ms. Palko assisted with the bankruptcy of this once-Fortune 500 company, which had some 17,000 employees and subsidiaries around the globe. Prior to the company’s bankruptcy, Ms. Palko’s responsibilities included complex litigation, ADR, corporate governance, and compliance. Before joining BearingPoint, beginning 1998, Ms. Palko was a Trial Attorney in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the United States Department of Justice. Prior to joining the DOJ, Ms. Palko was an Associate with Bracewell & Patterson LLP where she handled commercial and government contracting, government procurement, and administrative law. |
| | Farrah Pepper |
| | Gregory J. Radomisli Gregory Radomisli joined Martin Clearwater & Bell LLP in 1992 and became a partner in 2000. Mr. Radomisli’s practice focuses on all aspects of medical, psychiatric and legal malpractice defense, as well as civil rights defense and land use defense. Additionally, Mr. Radomisli has significant experience in multi-district litigation, particularly matters involving silicone breast implants and diet drugs (i.e., Fen/Phen). Mr. Radomisli has published articles in the New York Law Journal’s ‘Outside Counsel’ section. He also volunteers as an arbitrator in Small Claims Court. |
| | Anumpam Razdan |
| | Dan Regard Daniel L. Regard is a nationally recognized electronic evidence and case management expert with 20 years experience in consulting to legal and corporate entities. A programmer and an attorney by training, Mr. Regard has conducted system investigations, created data collections, and managed dscovery on some of the highest profile financial investigations of the last decade. He is responsible for the development and implementation of case and matter strategies that leverage technology to clients’ best advantage in both litigations and investigations. Mr. Regard has both national and international experience advising on such issues as electronic discovery, computer forensics, database development, application software, data analysis, and repository services. He has testified and worked as a testifying expert and as a court appointed neutral on issues of electronic discovery. |
| | Jeffrey Ritter Jeffrey Ritter is recognized globally as one of the most influential voices at the intersection of law and technology. He is a pioneer in shaping the legal rules for cyberspace and addressing the value of digital information as property, whether in the board room, the courtroom, the legislature or a network operations center. Through his company, Waters Edge (www.wec‐llc.com), Jeffrey delivers training, assessment and strategic design services that enable companies to build trusted information systems. Waters Edge also publishes the CastleQuest Discovery Library, a growing library of functional, authoritative books, maps and practice tools for managing digital information with |
| | John Rosenthal Mr. Rosenthal is Chair of the firm’s e-discovery and electronic information practice group. In this regard, Mr. Rosenthal is one of the most experienced practitioners in the United States in the area of electronic discovery and risk reduction from electronic discovery. With this background, he counsels a wide variety of companies on record retention programs, compliance with electronic discovery, and the implementation of programs to reduce risk associated with the generation and retention of electronic records. |
| | Andy Ruckman Mr. Ruckman is a principal in the Forensic & Dispute Services practice of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services (“Deloitte FAS”). Mr. Ruckman has over 14 years of experience in the information technology industry providing technical, operational, and project management support. He specializes in electronic discovery for litigation, regulatory and internal |
| | David C. Shonka David C. Shonka is the Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission and heads the FTC’s E-Discovery Steering Committee. He served as the Assistant General Counsel for Litigation at the FTC from 1993 until assuming his current position. Before that he was a senior trial attorney in the General Counsel’s Office, an associate in a Washington D.C. law firm, and a litigator in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice. In his career at the FTC, Mr. Shonka has tried and argued competition and consumer protection cases in the federal district courts; tried cases in administrative proceedings, represented the Commission in numerous appellate cases; and contributed to the government’s briefs in several Supreme Court cases. |
| | George Socha, Jr., Esq. After litigating cases for 16 years, in 2003 George Socha founded Socha Consulting LLC, offering services as an electronic discovery expert witness, special master, and advisor to corporations, law firms and their clients, and legal vertical market software and service providers in the areas of electronic discovery and automated litigation support. George also is author, along with Tom Gelbmann, of the leading survey on the electronic discovery market, The Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey. In 2005 he and Tom launched EDRM (the Electronic Discovery Reference Model project)(www.edrm.net), now in its fifth year. George has a J.D. for Cornell Law School and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. |
| | Stephen Stewart Stephen Stewart, Nuix’s CTO, has more than 10 years of experience working with both public and private sector organizations to provide solutions for their e- mail, file, and document management/archiving challenges. Stephen joined Nuix to help shape Nuix’s existing forensic technologies into a leader in the e-discovery space. |
| | Susan Taylor Susan Taylor, CP, FRP, is the Manager of e-Discovery Compliance at CSX Transportation in Jacksonville, Florida, one of the nation’s largest leading transportation companies. Ms. Taylor manages legal hold notices for all of the CSX entities as well as managing the company’s electronic discovery. She assisted with the creation of their in-house e-Discovery lab. She has over 27 years of legal experience. |
 | Jeane Thomas |
| | Sonya Thornton Sonya Thornton is Manager of Legal Discovery and Compliance in Sprint Nextel’s Legal Department in Reston, Virginia. Ms. Thornton is responsible for e-discovery management and coordination for the Litigation Department. Sonya specializes in the areas of in-house legal/litigation practices and procedures, management of core-team efforts to implement policies, procedures and tools to ensure compliance with Federal and State laws and regulations, as well as coordination and assistance to the Records Retention and Compliance and IT functional areas. Ms. Thornton joined Nextel Communications in September 1999 as an executive assistant for the commercial contracts group and was promoted to Legal Analyst in November 2002. Ms. Thornton assumed her current responsibilities in March 2008 after the merger of Nextel and Sprint. |
 | John Tredennick John Tredennick is the founder and CEO of Catalyst Repository Systems, which provides secure, web-based software to help corporations and their counsel manage electronic discovery and complex legal matters. Hosting hundreds of terabytes in two data centers, Catalyst has provided document repositories for many of the largest organizations in the world. Prior to founding Catalyst, Tredennick was a nationally-known trial lawyer and litigation partner with Holland & Hart in Denver. Widely recognized as a legal technology pioneer, Tredennick has written or edited five books and countless articles on legal technology and has spoken to lawyers and legal professionals on four continents. |
 | Michelangelo Troisi, Michelangelo Troisi is Senior Counsel & Director of Risk Management for Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (SEA). Mr. Troisi oversees all of SEA’s litigation in the United States, including class-action and product-liability cases. He is responsible for coordinating both the selection and management of outside counsel and litigation-support firms. Mike is the head of SEA’s Risk Management Department, which manages all product recalls, government investigations, and other formal inquiries; and his department works with department heads, internal resources, and outside vendors on matters related to e-discovery, document management, and litigation-support services. He also administers SEA’s Information and Document Retention Program. |
 | Allisa Vermillion |
| | Steve Watson Steve Watson is an ambitious, disciplined manager with a career spanning 10 years of leadership in varied technology environments from start-up companies to a Fortune 50 corporation. Watson has experience leading teams through a variety of complex situations including information security incident response, remote global projects, and technical support of widely heterogeneous IT environments. A certified adrenaline junkie and technophile, Watson enjoys responding to the latest information security crises, monumental litigation request or technology obstacle with calm, disciplined, data-driven leadership. |
| | Master Steven Whitaker Master Whitaker is the Senior Master of the Senior Courts of England and Wales in the Queen’s Bench Division, the Queen’s Remembrancer and a former barrister. Amongst his other duties he manages the specialist list for mesothelioma and other asbestos related claims at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. He was one of the judicial members of the Civil Procedure Rules Committee of England and Wales from 2002 - 08 and was also a member of one of the judicial advisory groups advising the Secretary of State on the use of IT in the Civil and Family Courts.. He is the Central Authority for England and Wales under the Hague Conventions on Service and the Taking of Evidence. |
 | Jonathan Wilan Jonathan Wilan is a partner with Hunton & Williams in Washington, D.C. His practice includes complex representations for Fortune 250 organizations, including particular experience working with corporate clients to respond to the challenges of electronic discovery and preservation under the Federal Rules and in response to governmental investigations. |
 | Charles H. Wilcox II Mr. Wilcox is in charge of Litigation and Employment Law at XO Holdings, Inc., in Herndon, Virginia. He is also the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer for XO. Mr. Wilcox graduated from the University of Texas Law School and served on active duty as a Judge Advocate with the United States Air Force after graduating. His assignments with the Air Force include service as an Area Defense Counsel (public defender) at Blytheville AFB, the Chief Circuit Prosecutor for the Air Force for the Western United States, and as the Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel) for Air Force Commanders at various installations around the world. Additionally he served as the Director of the Air Force Civil Litigation Unit where he was responsible for overseeing and managing all civil litigation for the Air Force. |
 | Gregory Witczak Gregory Witczak is Vice President and Director of eDiscovery at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, where he manages the Firm’s global eDiscovery efforts. He designed and implemented the firm’s eDiscovery process, including an application for the requesting, tracking, and fulfillment of ESI and a patent pending legal hold management system. He liaises between Legal and IT, bridging communicating gaps and manages the workflow between in-house, outside counsel, and external vendors. He has spoken at numerous conferences on various aspects of eDiscovery, including best practices, outsourcing, and off shoring. Previously he managed electronic document reviews at two major law firms. |
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