Keynote Speaker

Craig Ball
Trial Lawyer & Technologist
Computer Forensic Examiner
Author and Educator

Craig Ball is a Board Certified trial lawyer, certified computer forensic examiner and electronic evidence expert He has dedicated his career to teaching the bench and bar about forensic technology and trial tactics. After decades trying lawsuits, Craig now limits his practice solely to serving as a court-appointed special master and consultant in computer forensics and electronic discovery, and to publishing and lecturing on computer forensics, emerging technologies, digital persuasion and electronic discovery. Craig's award-winning e-discovery column, "Ball in Your Court," appears in Law Technology News and Law.com. He has consulted or served as the Special Master or testifying expert in computer forensics and electronic discovery in some of the most challenging and well-known cases in the U.S. Named as one of the Best Lawyers in America and a Texas Superlawyer, Craig is a recipient of the Presidents' Award, the State Bar of Texas' most esteemed recognition of service to the profession and of the Bar's Lifetime Achievement Award in Law and Technology.

Invited Speakers

Browning Marean
Partner
Electronic Discovery Readiness and
Response Group - Co-Chair
DLA Piper US LLP

Mr. Marean joined the firm (then Gray Cary Ames & Frye) in 1969. He is a member of DLA Piper’s Technology Committee, and is an emeritus member of the California State Bar Law Practice Management Committee. He is a member of the San Diego County Bar Association Ethics Committee and the Sedona Conference. Mr. Marean is a nationally known teacher and lecturer on various topics including electronic discovery, records retention, knowledge management and computer technology. He is Co-author of “Electronic Discovery and Records Management Guide, Rules, Checklists and Forms” 2008 Edition published by Thomson West, and “Conducting Discovery in and Electronic World: Electronic Data and Discovery” published in California Civil Discovery Practice. Mr. Marean received his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law and his undergraduate degree from Stanford University.

Tom O'Connor
Industry Consultant
Legal Electronic Document Institute

Tom O'Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems. He is a New England native who graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972 with a BA in Political Science. After attending law school for one year at The University of Notre Dame, Tom returned to Baltimore and undertook a career as a paralegal specializing in complex litigation. A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom has been on the faculty of numerous national CLE providers and currently teaches a course on legal technology in an ABA approved paralegal program at a local college. He is also a member of the American Bar Foundation and the Governing Council of the Law Practice Management Section of the ABA. A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom has been on the faculty of numerous national CLE providers and is also a member of the advisory board of the national LegalTech conferences. A prolific writer on the subject, with articles in numerous legal publications as well as being the Editor of several legal newsletters, Tom is also the author of The Automated Law Firm, a guide to computer systems and software published by Aspen Law & Business, now in its fourth edition and The Lawyers Guide to Summation, published by the ABA.

George Socha
Industry Consultant
Socha Consulting LLC

A litigator for 16 years, George Socha is President of 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 co-author of the leading survey on the electronic discovery market, The Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey. In 2005 he launched the Electronic Discovery Reference Model project (www.edrm.net) and in 2006, the EDRM Metrics and EDRM XML projects. George has a J.D. for Cornell Law School and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Timothy A. Piganelli
Industry Consultant
Legal Technology Consulting, LLC

Timothy A. Piganelli is the owner of Legal Technology Consulting LLC, based in Phoenix, AZ. Through LTC, he provides comprehensive strategic consulting services in a full line of computerized litigation support computerized trial presentation and courtroom technology, graphics and animation, software training, expert witness and accident reconstruction engineering. Tim is a 1988 graduate of Arizona State University, holding degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering Technology. He was President of and is a lifetime member of Pi Tau Sigma, the National Honor Society for Mechanical Engineering; and is a lifetime member of Tau Alpha Pi, the National Honor Society for Engineering Technologists.

Mary Pat Poteet
Director of Litigation Support
DLA Piper US LLP

Mary Pat Poteet is the Director of Litigation Support for DLA Piper US LLP and is based in San Diego. She is a member of the firm’s Electronic Discovery Readiness and Response Group and manages a team of litigation support professionals throughout the country. Ms. Poteet provides consultation services on various litigation support issues, including complex litigation, data management and electronic evidence handling and processing. She speaks and writes frequently on electronic discovery topics and is a contributing author of the California Civil Discovery Practice, 4th ed.. Ms. Poteet joined the firm 2005. She is the Litigation Support Peer Group Vice President for the International Legal Technology Association and on the Editorial Board of the Litigation Today Magazine. She is a founding member of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model and she graduated from San Diego State University.

Doug Herman
Managing Director - eDiscovery & Digital Forensics Practice Group
UHY Advisors FLVS, Inc.

Doug is a Managing Director of UHY Advisors FLVS Inc. and is the leader of their eDiscovery and Digital Forensics Practice Group. He holds a Bachelors degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, as well as a Masters in Computer Science and an M.B.A. from The University of Washington. As a practicing structural engineer, Doug worked for Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, where he specialized in the design and testing of wing structures on the Boeing 777 aircraft program. After several years as an engineer, he elected to change careers and take on the challenge of the IT world, where he somewhat accidentally found himself getting involved in electronic discovery issues. Since that point, more than ten years ago, Doug has focused on all aspects of eDiscovery. Doug's specific expertise includes issues surrounding data preservation, proper chain of custody management, various Digital Forensics methods, and the improvement of the overall eDiscovery project lifecycle. He focuses the majority of his time in serving UHY's pharmaceutical, banking and energy clients, in an effort to organize their respective electronic data infrastructures, hence minimizing the electronic discovery costs involved in litigation-related matters.

David Cowen
Founder
The Cowen Group

With over twenty years of experience in staffing and recruiting - David is a prominent leader in the human capital industry. Raised in Queens, New York, David holds a B.S. in Finance from Miami University of Ohio. Through previous ventures, David has provided staffing solutions to over twenty major markets in seven countries. David regularly lectures and writes on both the war for talent and the impact of developing technologies on litigation services. Surpassing the traditional role of a headhunter, David Cowen focuses on growth and development of the talent he places, and the clients he serves.

Conrad J. Jacoby, Esq
Industry Consultant
efficientEDD

Conrad Jacoby, founder of efficientEDD, is an attorney and consultant whose practice focuses on technology and its intersection with the law. A technologist before entering the practice of law, Mr. Jacoby’s broad knowledge of computer operations gives him both vocabulary and substantive knowledge to effectively communicate with both technical and legal professionals, ensuring that important nuances are properly conveyed in both directions. Over the course of his legal career, he has assisted pharmaceutical and semiconductor manufacturers, petroleum companies and engineers, and several pioneering internet-based companies in transactional, intellectual property, and litigation matters. In litigation matters, Mr. Jacoby works closely with clients to develop cost-effective and defensible strategies for preserving and producing corporate electronic documents in response to discovery requests. Similarly, he advises clients on ways to request digital information and test the adequacy of a responding party’s production. In transactional and regulatory compliance work, Mr. Jacoby helps clients understand how their technology fits into regulatory schema and identifies concrete steps that clients must take to properly deploy new technologies that are subject to regulatory oversight. As a consultant on information management and litigation support matters, Mr. Jacoby has served as a consulting expert to litigation teams. In addition to his consulting practice, Mr. Jacoby writes and lectures extensively on e-discovery and litigation management topics. He is also developer-certified in Concordance and IPRO and is available as an instructor for both open enrollment and custom training classes. Mr. Jacoby is admitted to practice law in Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Duane Lites
Director, Litigation Support
Jackson Walker, LLP

Duane Lites has over 20 years of litigation support experience, and has spent 12 of those Managing Litigation Support departments in several large law firms . He is currently the Director of Litigation Support at Jackson Walker LLP in Dallas, TX. He is responsible for coordinating all Litigation Support technology services for the Firm's attorneys, paralegals and support staff. He is a frequent speaker and very active in the litigation support industry; . He is former President of the DFW Association of Litigation Support Managers (DFWALSM), a member of the Executive Committee of the National Association of Litigation Support Managers (NALSM), Owner/moderator of the National Litigation Support Listserv with over 8,500+ members, member of the EDRM Metrics 2 project, and on the Editorial Board of the Litigation Today Magazine.

Bruce S. Markowitz
Director of Litigation Support
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP

Bruce S. Markowitz is the Director of Litigation Support with McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. He joined the firm in 2006. In this role, Bruce is responsible for strategic planning and managing the daily operations of the Litigation Support Departments. Bruce develops and implements firm policies and procedures as well as firm wide training programs on all aspects of litigation support. In addition, he provides technical advise to clients and attorneys on e-discovery collections and records retention requirements, prepares data management and compliance policies, and designs and implements litigation and practice support databases, image retrieval systems and other applications Bruce is also involved in the in-firm marketing of litigation, and practice support services and the assessment of new technologies. Bruce also holds a Certification as an Enterprise Content Management Practitioner (ECMP). This Certification provides Bruce with the strategies, tools and technologies used to capture, store, manage, preserve and deliver information in support of business processes. It enables Bruce to help build a process that will manage your information assets with in your organization, and combines relevant components and technologies. Prior to joining McKenna Long & Aldridge, Bruce worked for other international law firms as a member of the Litigation Practice Support team. For the past eight years, he has been an Adjunct Professor for Villa Julie College, teaching both Litigation Support Technology and Moot Trial Capstone. Bruce has also participated in Georgetown University Law Center CLE e-discovery courses.

Marc S. Mayerson, Esq
Partner
Spriggs & Hollingsworth

Mr. Mayerson is the partner responsible for the Firm’s use and deployment of computer-based technology, a topic about which he has written and lectured at legal-technology symposia. In addition to dealing with issues of electronic discovery in his own cases, Mr. Mayerson provides assistance to others within the Firm regarding e-discovery requirements. He provides guidance to our Litigation Support Group on these issues. He also meets with vendors and technology developers to help facilitate implementations and products that will meet the recorded-information-management needs of clients. Mr. Mayerson was a member of the Board of Editors of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating from Harvard, Mr. Mayerson served as judicial clerk to the Honorable Stephen R. Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Nigel Murray
Managing Director
TRILANTIC

Nigel has been at the forefront of using technology to assist dispute resolution since 1991. After managing the litigation support department of a major UK-based international law firm he founded the first British litigation support company in 1993 and since then has worked on hundreds of matters from the very large – BCCI and UK tobacco litigation to a wide range of commercial disputes. His first experience of litigation using electronic documents was in 2001 where he developed the methodology and working practices to manage large volumes of electronic documents as part of the document collection. This matter was one of the first cases in the UK courts where electronic documents formed the main evidence. He founded Trilantic in 2005 to specialise in electronic document disclosure.

Charlotte Riser Harris
Industry Consultant
Five Star Legal and Compliance Systems, Inc.

Charlotte Riser Harris is a consultant in the litigation support and e-discovery fields with over 20 years of litigation support and paralegal experience. Her experience includes management and coordination of all aspects of litigation support including electronic discovery, data and document management, database support and design, and best practices development and documentation. Ms. Harris is a frequent speaker and writer on topics related to litigation support and e-discovery. She is an active participant in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) and teaches the litigation course for Thomas Edison State College’s Paralegal Certificate program.

Josh Sacks
Managing Director
Peak Litigation Support

Josh Sacks, Managing Director of Peak Litigation Support, specializes in legal technology placement, encompassing sales, operations, and management professionals in litigation support, electronic discovery, and computer forensics, with law firms, vendors and consulting groups. He has lectured to litigation support professional associations on hiring issues, and, in a September 2004 New Jersey Law Journal article titled, "Cultivating Your Firm's Technology," he counseled law firms on structuring a litigation support department. A graduate of Muhlenberg College with a B.A. degree in Communications, He has lectured nationally on hiring trends in litigation support as well as on "Best Practices in Recruiting."

Brett Burney
Principal
Burney Consultants LLC

Brett Burney focuses his time on bridging the chasm between the legal and technology frontiers of electronic discovery. Prior to establishing Burney Consultants LLC, Brett spent over 5 years at the law firm of Thompson Hine LLP where he worked with litigation teams in building document databases, counseling on electronic discovery issues, and supporting them at trial. Brett is a frequent contributor to Law.com, Law Technology News, LLRX.com and the ABA GPSOLO magazine. You can visit his Website at http://www.burneyconsultants.com and his blog at http://www.ediscoveryinfo.com. You can email him at burney@burneyconsultants.com.

Shannon Capone Kirk
E-Discovery Counsel
Ropes & Gray

Shannon Capone Kirk is Ropes & Gray's E-Discovery counsel. Her practice is focused on E-Discovery law, built upon her complex commercial litigation (with particular emphasis on mass tort litigation), multi-district litigation, product liability, trade secret, and contract dispute experience. Shannon has litigated cases in state and federal courts across the country, and has represented Italy-based clients conducting business in the United States.

Dean Gonsowski
Vice President of E-Discovery Services
Clearwell Systems, Inc.

Dean brings over a decade of e-discovery consulting and legal practice experience to his position. He is a member of The Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1), the Colorado Bar Association, the American Bar Associations Digital Evidence Working Group, and teaches a series of continuing legal education (CLE) courses on various e-discovery topics. He is on the board of the e-Discovery Law & Strategy newsletter and has been quoted in a number of leading industry publications including the California Lawyer, Law Technology News and the ABA Journal. Prior to joining Clearwell, Dean was the Managing Director of Xiotech, Inc.’s Business Consulting group. He has significant experience building and leading teams of consultants that help corporations develop records management and electronic information “best practices,” as well as managing large scale computer forensic and electronic discovery projects. Prior to joining Xiotech, Inc. Dean was a Director in the Discovery Services practice of Navigant Consulting, Inc. where he assisted law firms such as Fish & Richardson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Cooley Godward, as well as corporations including Qwest Communications, Alcatel, and Ford Motor Company.

Julie K. Brown
Litigation Technology Manager
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Julie currently manages the Litigation Technology Department at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP. The department provides in-house support, training, processing and production of e-discovery. She is currently on the EDRM Advisory Committee and a leader on the Evergreen Production node project. She is active in coordinating educational opportunities for the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) and is a working group member of the Sedona Conference. Julie is certified in all Summation applications, Sanction, Doculex and LAW 5.0. She has a paralegal degree and over 20 years of experience working in law firms and in-house legal departments.

Margaret F. Morton
Project Manager
Morrison & Foerster LLP

Margaret Morton is a results-oriented, certified project manager with over a decade of experience in leading diverse teams through projects with rapid change and complex challenges within professional services firms and several prominent law firms. She has held practice support-focused positions based on the East Coast and in Houston, TX, with national responsibility for King & Spalding LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, and, presently, with the New York office of Morrison & Foerster LLP. She is an active speaker and participant within Project Management International; EDRM; ILTA; and ALSP. She currently serves as the Director of Membership for the Women in eDiscovery New York City Chapter.

Alice E. Burns
Technology Consultant
Baker Robbins & Company

Alice is a recognized expert on litigation management, providing technology-based management solutions to law firms, corporate legal departments, governmental entities and legal software and service providers throughout the United States, Canada and the UK. With more than seventeen years of experience in litigation support and discovery management, Alice has developed litigation management strategies for high-profile litigation cases including automated solutions that encompass knowledge-, discovery-, trial- and web-based management tools. Her consulting practice includes the delivery of both strategic and tactical advice to corporations and law firms in the areas of discovery, litigation support, ESI records management and storage, and technology issues. Alice leads engagements in business process, workflow and needs assessments to align litigation support functions with firm and practice group requirements and expectations. Alice frequently presents on technology and litigation function issues, and teaches a highly acclaimed curriculum on executing a discovery management framework. She previously held positions as founder and President of a litigation support consulting company. Alice has also worked for two AM Law 100 firms in paralegal, litigation support and technology-related positions. Alice is a member of the University of Washington’s advisory boards for the certificates in Digital Forensics and Discovery Management. She holds a BA from the State University of New York, and a paralegal certificate from the Philadelphia Institute.

Albert J. Buckwalter
Litigation Support Director
Federal Government

Albert J. Buckwalter, PMP, is a Litigation Support Director with the Federal Government. He has over 18 years of litigation support experience in both private and public organizations. He has managed or supported litigation against such organizations as Tenent Healthcare, McDonald Douglas/General Dynamics, Boeing, Alaska Pulp Corporation and the Federal lawsuit against Tobacco manufacturers. He started his litigation support career as a bilingual legal assistant with a personal injury firm. He is also the Editor-In-Chief of Litigation Support Today magazine and publishing consultant for Legal Assistant Today magazine. Most recently he received the Department of Justice - Civil Rights Division’s Excellence in Legal Support Award in 2008. Albert has a BA in Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland, College Park and is a certified project management professional through PMI.

Ari Kaplan
Principal
Ari Kaplan Advisors

Ari Kaplan is the author of The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development (Thomson-West, 2008), which is about how law students, lawyers and other professionals can stand out in today’s stagnant economy. The New York Law Journal called it “[a] must-have treasure box of marketing ideas.” As the principal of Ari Kaplan Advisors, Mr. Kaplan trains law firm administrators, legal assistants, law students/summer associates, associates and partners on the mechanics of getting published, effective communication and dynamic networking. He helps professionals leverage writing and other activities as the foundation for business development through keynote presentations, university lectures, in-house training programs, personal coaching and ghost writing. Mr. Kaplan has been interviewed on CNN, published over 150 articles, and served as a legal commentator for CNET Radio. He is the founder of the Ari Kaplan Advisors charitable book collection through the Intergenerational Literacy Project in Chelsea, Massachusetts and is a member of the Board of Editors for IncisiveMedia's Marketing the Law Firm. He received Apex Awards in 2007 and 2008 for feature writing, and was named a "Law Star" by LawCrossing. Mr. Kaplan practiced law with large firms in New York City for nearly 9 years and is admitted to the bar in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. He earned his J.D. from George Washington University Law School and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Boston University. Learn more about him at AriKaplanAdvisors.com and his book at TheOpportunityMaker.com.

David Andrew
Senior Vice President
CACI International, Inc.

Mr. Andrew is a Senior Vice President for CACI International, Inc. responsible for the business and technical leadership of CACI’s Legal Services and Knowledge-Based Solutions groups. In that role, he oversees CACI’s enterprise-wide support to Government investigatory, litigation, and oversight agencies. Involved with some of the largest Government litigations of the past few decades, Mr. Andrew believes that there is no substitute for hands-on experience when selecting the best tools for specialized operations and tasks, and also that there is no substitute for planning and training in the execution of those activities. As a result, he has been an on-going advocate of technology infusion and its key partner, training, into litigation support throughout his more than 24 years in the industry, and has been a contributor to industry seminars and conferences.

Kurt Leafstrand
Director of Product Management
Clearwell Systems

Kurt Leafstrand is Director of Product Management at Clearwell Systems, where he works with Fortune 2000 clients to streamline and integrate the processing, analysis and review of electronically stored information (ESI) into their electronic discovery systems. He also serves as the working group lead for the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) XML schema definition project, and previously worked as a management consultant with McKinsey and Company.

Rebecca Prince
Global Manager of Litigation Technology
McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Rebecca Prince is the Global Manager of Litigation Technology at McDermott Will & Emery LLP. She has over fifteen years of legal technology experience, having worked as an attorney and legal technology consultant. Rebecca has formed a stellar Litigation Support team at McDermott and has played an integral part in developing the firm’s ESI Best Practices and peer review program.

Patricia Lucas
Records & Litigation Support Manager
Patton Boggs, LLP

Patricia Lucas is the Records & Litigation Support Manager for Patton Boggs, LLP. Pat has over 17 years experience in the litigation field and has worked on the firm’s most prominent cases. Currently, she is responsible for the coordination and management of litigation support services, and the firm’s Records Department. She works with attorneys, paralegals and case personnel throughout the firm and advises the firm and clients on best practices for electronic discovery. She also works closely with the firm’s lead counsel for Risk Management. Ms. Lucas sits on Patton Boggs’ Electronic Discovery and Technology committees. She is a member of the Women in eDiscovery (WIE), the Association of Litigation Support Professionals (ALSP) and the DC Litigation Support Manager Caucus.

Michael Dalewitz
Co-Founder
Peak Discovery, Inc.

Michael Dalewitz, Esq. co-founded Peak Discovery, Inc. in 2006 after practicing at an NLJ 250 law firm and managing projects at a large legal process outsourcing (LPO) corporation. In 2007, Michael co-developed Peak Review Metrics, our proprietary document review efficiency tracking software. His purview includes the staffing and efficiency monitoring of large document review projects, electronic data discovery projects, discovery consulting and the creation of litigation expense control models. Michael graduated from the University of Florida with a BA in Criminology and obtained his JD from New York Law School. Currently, Michael is an active member and sponsor of the Sedona Conference, International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), Association of Litigation Support Professionals (ALSP) and the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA). Michael actively contributes to the University of Florida and New York Law School’s Alumni Association. A well recognized, published author in electronic discovery Michael, in the fall of 2009, is slated to be an adjunct professor at New York Law School teaching Introduction to Electronic Discovery.

Sandra Potter
Managing Director
Potter Farrelly & Associates.

Sandra Potter is an internationally recognised expert in the law and technology field. She has a remarkable depth of specialist knowledge concerning document management, litigation management and the adoption of technology to control both paper-based and electronic material. Sandra has had a 20+ year career as a legal technology consultant for law firms, in-house legal teams and the courts throughout Australia, Asia, Europe and Canada. She has received wide recognition for the highly pragmatic, professional nature of her advice and her ability to develop strategies and implementation programs which transform her clients’ knowledge management systems. Sandra is an international speaker at ‘Technology and the Law’ conferences and seminars. Her innovative work and industry leadership has been featured in print media, television news and radio.

Kevin Carr
President
interLegis

Kevin Carr is president of InterLegis, Inc. and has a wide range of Internet-based technology expertise. As the architect of the InterLegis system, he has developed cutting-edge discovery technologies and best practices relating to conceptual analysis, similarity matching, automatic categorizations, processing/culling, visual analysis, document digitization, optical character recognition, compression, database indexing, advanced searching and document security. He has worked with Fortune 100 corporations, national law firms and regional law firms. As a recognized thought leader, he has written several articles and is a requested speaker at industry events.

Rachi Messing
Vice President of Technology Services
DiscoveryReady

Rachi Messing is the Vice President of Technology Services at DiscoverReady LLC. He has focused his professional career on designing, implementing and supporting complex Discovery Management Solutions including Electronic Repositories and Electronic Data Discovery. He has worked on some of the most complex electronic document reviews for many of the country’s largest law firms and corporate legal departments. His experience ranges from large patent litigation matters to SEC investigations. He is proficient in most major litigation support applications and frequently conducts admin and end-user training. Rachi is Microsoft and Citrix certified and has a clear understanding of how large IT systems integrate and can be utilized in the data collection and data review process. Rachi graduated from Towson University with a Bachelors degree in Economics.

Shimmy Messing
Partner
Responsive Data Solutions

Shimmy Messing is a partner of Responsive Data Solutions, LLC in Washington, DC facility. He works closely with some of the largest law firms in the country and has been an integral part of creating efficiencies and implementing creative technology workflows to support some of the most complex litigation cases. He has obtained certification in many of the industries leading software platforms. Shimmy earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Computer Information Systems at Towson University in Maryland.

David Kessler, Esq
Partner
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

David J. Kessler is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group and a founding member of the firm’s E-Discovery and Data Management Task Force (EDDM). David is national e-discovery counsel for several of the firm’s clients and routinely counsels companies with respect to both strategic and tactical discovery concerns. David is also an intellectual property litigator and has represented clients in patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and licensing cases.

Larry Briggi
Managing Director
FTI

Larry Briggi is a managing director in FTI’s Technology practice and is based in New York. Mr. Briggi has over 19 years experience in the corporate and legal industries developing and implementing litigation management and technology solutions. Mr. Briggi has extensive experience in the planning, collection and processing phases of electronic data. He regularly consults on projects dealing with individual parties, joint defense groups, as well as both plaintiffs and defendants. Mr. Briggi has built centralized data facilities, internet hosting and coding facilities, EDD production facilities and scanning production lines. He has designed and implemented multiple workflow processes for electronic file processing, scanning and coding projects that incorporate redundant data checking, project management and reporting into a centralized SQL back end.Before FTI, Mr. Briggi led litigation support and IT departments at five Am Law 200 firms. The growth of the these departments lead to improved attorney support, reduced client costs, better management of projects and the increased capacity to handle larger and larger cases.

Lillian Clementi
Managing Principal
Lingua Legal

A translator’s translator, Lillian Clementi works with select law firms that value her nearly 15 years of experience in litigation, helping her clients make sense of foreign-language documents and develop efficient strategies for document review and translation. Using a unique process called Intelligent Document Review™, Ms. Clementi focuses on connecting the dots -- finding the story behind the documents, identifying key material and weeding out unnecessary clutter. She is a co-author of “Managing Patent Litigation Projects” in The Patent Translator’s Handbook, published in 2007 by the American Translators Association (ATA), and is currently writing a chapter on discovery for ATA’s forthcoming Legal Translation: The Practitioner’s Perspective. A former two-term president of ATA’s Washington chapter, she is active in ATA’s national outreach efforts and currently serves on its Public Relations Committee. She is also an associate member of the American Bar Association.

Todd Haley
Vice President of E-Discovery
ePIC

Todd Haley is Vice President of E-Discovery at ePIC, a full-service provider of e-discovery and traditional hardcopy processing services. He has provided technology and support for numerous litigation document processing projects involving foreign language materials, and works with clients on a daily basis to identify cost-effective solutions for reviewing and producing these materials in litigation.

George Rudoy
Director, Global Practice Technology & Information Services
Shearman & Sterling LLP

George I. Rudoy is the Director of Global Practice Technology & Information Services at Shearman & Sterling LLP. Mr. Rudoy is responsible for the strategic implementation of practice specific and information management solutions and services, including oversight of the Practice Technology Support Department and the firm's Information Center, worldwide. Additionally, George is responsible for advising the firm’s attorneys and clients on all aspects of applied legal technology, compliance and retention of electronic records, new matter intake and business conflicts, as well as knowledge management. Previously, George held senior management positions in legal support at a number of AmLaw 100 law firms, including Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.

Ralph Losey, Esq
Shareholder
Akerman Senterfitt

Ralph Losey is a shareholder of Akerman Senterfitt, Co-Chair of Akerman's Electronic Discovery practice group, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida School of Law teaching e-discovery. He is the author of the American Bar Association's feature books on electronic discovery for 2008 and 2009: Introduction to e-Discovery: New Cases, Ideas, and Techniques, (ABA 2009); and, e-Discovery: Current Trends and Cases (ABA 2008). He is also the author of the well known law review article on the mathematics underlying e-discovery: HASH: the New Bates Stamp, 12 Journal of Technology Law & Policy 1 (June 2007), and more recently on the ethics underlying e-discovery: Lawyers Behaving Badly: Understanding Unprofessional Conduct in e-Discovery, 60 Mercer L. Rev. __ (2009). He is also the author of a popular weekly blog on e-discovery, e-Discovery Team Blog, which now averages 200,000 visits per year.

Scott Merrick
Litigation Marketing
LDM Global

Scott Merrick is the International Marketing Director for LDM Global, a premier international provider for legal document management. He is responsible for marketing communication, global client relationship marketing, partner management and public relations. Scott has over 20 years of international marketing experience working for technology, business to business and legal technology companies. Before joining LDM Global he worked as the Director of Marketing for Lexis Nexis litigation markets focusing on eDiscovery and case assessment technology tools. Working with global corporate clients, law firms and partners, he understands the most pressing issues related to the transfer of data for eDiscovery and the compliance of data privacy laws. He helps provide them with resources to stay up to date on laws and in country legal contacts to resolve data privacy compliance issues for multinational eDiscovery cases. He holds undergraduate degrees in English Literature and Political Science from Whitman College and an MBA in technology business management from City University of Seattle.

John Tredennick
CEO
Catalyst

John Tredennick has spoken before more national and international audiences on legal and technology issues than he or anyone else can remember. He’s written and edited five best-selling books and countless articles on litigation and technology issues and has was recently named as one of the “Top 100 Global Technology Leaders” by London’s CityTech magazine based in input from legal technology professionals around the world. John began his career as a trial lawyer and partner with one of the largest law firms in the Rocky Mountains. In 1995 he became the firm’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), the first in the country for a major law firm, while remaining a litigation partner. His passion for finding ways to use technology to improve law practice led the firm to international prominence as a technology leader. In 1992 John created an internal division at the firm, “Trial Partners” offering litigation services and trial consulting. Not long after that, his team began developing client extranets to help manage complex litigation. Soon, the firm had scores of litigation extranets in operation. The idea of Catalyst, a spin-off company providing secure collaboration repositories for the case, deal and document management, was simply inevitable. John recently served as Chair of the ABA's Law Practice Management Section. For many years he edited Law Practice Management magazine, a monthly publication of the American Bar Association focusing on legal technology and management issues. More recently, he founded and edited Law Practice Today, a widely-read ABA Webzine that focuses on electronic discovery and other legal technology and management issues.

Mary Mack, Esq.
Technology Counsel
Fios, Inc.

Whether in response to an inquiry, a second request or class action litigation, Mary Mack brings legal and technical professionals together in a focused manner to determine a successful, cost-effective course of compliance with electronic discovery requests. As Corporate Technology Counsel for Fios, she has more than 20 years experience delivering enterprise-wide electronic discovery, managed services and software projects with legal and IT departments in publicly held companies. Mary is a hands-on strategic advisor to counsel for some of the largest products liability class actions, government investigations and intellectual property disputes. Clients include the largest law firms, pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies in the world. A member of the Illinois Bar, ACCA and the ABA's Section on Litigation, Mary received her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law (1982) and a B.A. from LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY. She holds certifications in Computer Forensics and Computer Telephony. Mary is one of the leading speakers and authors on electronic discovery issues, technology and the law. She is co-author of the West treatise, "eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel," editor of the popular book, "A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery," and hosts the blog, "Sound Evidence," featured on DiscoveryResources.org.

Gina Day
Legal Consultant
Kroll OnTrack

With 10 years of experience in complex litigation and alternative dispute resolution, Gina Day helps guide attorneys and other legal professionals through the complexities inherent in the preservation, collection, review, production and use of electronic evidence. Based in Washington, DC, she provides information and advice on legal technology issues concerning electronic discovery, computer forensics, and the incorporation of audio files, foreign language documents, and traditional paper discovery into a unified electronic review platform. She works with many of the National Law Journal's Top 200 law firms and Fortune 500 corporations on internal or government investigations, civil litigation, and HSR Second Requests.

Laura Kibbe
Senior Vice President, eDiscovery Solutions
Epiq Systems

As Senior Vice President, Ms. Kibbe oversees Epiq Document Review Solutions which provides contract document review services for large data collections by qualified attorneys.Ms. Kibbe has over 17 years of legal experience. Prior to joining Epiq, she was Senior Corporate Counsel and Managing Director of the Discovery Response Team at Pfizer, Inc., where she managed all discovery activity, from mass tort to commercial, employment and third party subpoena requests. Prior to Pfizer, Ms. Kibbe was an Associate at Kaye Scholer LLP in New York and an Attorney for Texaco Inc. in White Plains, NY. Ms. Kibbe received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law and her B.A., magna cum laude, in Legal Studies from Manhattanville College. She is an attorney licensed to practice in New York and Connecticut. She is a member of Sedona Working Group 1 and EDRM Working Groups, a board member of EDRM Advisory Board, a member and advisor of Corporate E-Discovery Forum and a co-chair of Thomson/ West Legal Works E-Discovery Conference. Ms. Kibbe has authored articles on various discovery issues for Law Technology News, Inside Litigation and Corporate Counsel magazine and is a frequent national speaker on discovery issues.

Alison Silverstein
Managing Director
UHY Advisors FLVS, Inc.

Alison is a Managing Director with UHY Advisors FLVS, Inc. where she leads the eDiscovery & Digital Forensics Practice Group based in Washington, D.C. Alison is a recognized industry expert in the analysis, negotiation, and execution of data discovery. She has extensive knowledge of product strategy, data recovery software development, operational techniques, and recovery processes. She has provided a broad range of integrated discovery-management services to clients both nationally and internationally.

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