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Announcing Sixth Annual LTNY Thought Leader Series!: eDiscovery Trends
The annual appearance of the dancing light bulb can only mean one thing – it’s time for another thought leader series! Over our nearly 5 1/2 years of our existence, eDiscovery Daily has published several thought leader interviews from various thought leaders throughout the eDiscovery community, including an annual series of interviews at LegalTech New York (LTNY). For the sixth(!) consecutive year, we’re pleased to introduce the schedule for this year’s series, which will begin next Monday, February 22.
Here are the interviews that we will be publishing over the next few weeks:
Monday, February 22: Brad Jenkins, CEO of CloudNine™. Brad has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, as well as 15 years leading customer focused companies in the litigation technology arena. Brad has authored many articles on litigation support issues, and has spoken before national audiences on document management practices and solutions.
Wednesday, February 24: George Socha, President of Socha Consulting LLC and co-founder of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) and Apersee. As President of Socha Consulting LLC, George offers services as an eDiscovery 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.
Friday, February 26: Jason R. Baron, Of Counsel, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. Jason is a member of Drinker Biddle’s Information Governance and eDiscovery practice. An internationally recognized speaker and author on the preservation of electronic documents, Jason previously served as Director of Litigation for the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and as trial lawyer and senior counsel at the Department of Justice. He also was a founding co-coordinator of the National Institute of Standards and Technology TREC Legal Track, a multi-year international information retrieval project devoted to evaluating search issues in a legal context.
Monday, February 29: Tom O’Connor, Director of the Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center and Senior ESI Consultant with Advanced Discovery Tom is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems. A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom has been on the faculty of numerous national CLE providers and has taught college level courses on legal technology.
Wednesday, March 2: Craig Ball, Law Offices of Craig D. Ball, P.C. A frequent court appointed special master in electronic evidence, Craig is a prolific contributor to continuing legal and professional education programs throughout the United States, having delivered over 1,650 presentations and papers. Craig’s articles on forensic technology and electronic discovery frequently appear in the national media and he teaches E-Discovery and Digital Evidence at the University of Texas School of Law. He currently blogs on eDiscovery topics at ballinyourcourt.com.
Friday, March 4: Chris Dale, Editor of the eDisclosure Information Project. Chris qualified as an English solicitor in 1980 after reading History at Oxford. He was a litigation partner in London and then a litigation software developer and litigation support consultant before turning to commentary on electronic disclosure / discovery. He runs the e-Disclosure Information Project which disseminates information about the court rules, the problems, and the technology to lawyers and their clients, to judges, and to suppliers. He was a member of Senior Master Whitaker’s Working Party which drafted Practice Direction 31B and the Electronic Documents Questionnaire. Chris is also a well-known speaker and commentator in the UK, the US and other common law jurisdictions.
Monday, March 7: Pete Feinberg, Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Consilio, Pete is responsible for the overall product strategy and product management of Consilio’s products and services line. Pete’s specialties are in guiding product strategy, bringing new products and services to market, representing the voice of the client as an executive “client advocate”, and guiding the service delivery organization to engage with clients not as a vendor, but instead as a trusted advisor.
Wednesday, March 9: Ralph Losey, Principal and National eDiscovery Counsel for Jackson Lewis, LLP. Ralph is also a prolific author of eDiscovery books and articles, the principle author and publisher of the popular e-Discovery Team® Blog and the creator of the Electronic Discovery Best Practices (EDBP.com) model.
Once again, thanks to everyone for their time in participating in these interviews! Once we publish all of them, we will link to each of them from this post.
Want to look back at previous years’ interviews? Here are links to our 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012 interview series.
So, what do you think? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.
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