Ronald J. Hedges served as a United States Magistrate Judge in the District of New Jersey from 1986 to 2007. He is now a counsel of the firm of Nixon Peabody in its New York City office. Mr. Hedges is a member of, among other things, the advisory boards of the Advanced E-Discovery and Corporate Council Institutes, as well as the E-Discovery Training Academy, of Georgetown University Law Center. He is also an adjunct faculty member of Georgetown, where he teaches e-discovery and admissibility. Mr. Hedges is a member of the Advisory Board of The Sedona Conference, as well as a member of several of its Working Groups. He has published on a number of subjects, is the author of DISCOVERY OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION: SURVEYING THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE (BNA: 2007), and is the coauthor of DICOVERY OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION: A POCKET GUIDE FOR JUDGES(FJC: 2007).

Barron K. Henley is an attorney, a "legal technologist" and a founding member of Henley March & Unger Consulting, Inc. He received his B.S./B.A. (marketing and economics) and J.D. from The Ohio State University. Mr. Henley is a member of the American, Ohio and Columbus Bar Associations, and the Worthington Estate Planning Council. Mr. Henley heads HMU's HotDocs document assembly and software training departments; and teaches CLE classes covering practice management, document management, file management, server and personal computer issues, remote access, mobile lawyering, scanning and imaging, legal paper reduction strategies, electronic case filing, Word, Excel, Outlook, WordPerfect, HotDocs document assembly, Adobe Acrobat, malpractice avoidance, and many other topics. Mr. Henley is a frequent Continuing Legal Education speaker on legal-specific technology issues throughout the U.S. for bar associations and CLE providers including the American, Ohio, Georgia, West Virginia, Michigan Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Toledo Bar Associations, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Michigan, Virginia CLE, the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and many others.

E-discovery and legal technology expert, Dominic Jaar is legal counsel and consultant at Ledjit Consulting, a firm specializing in information management, e-discovery and law practice management technologies. He speaks throughout North America and writes on legal and technology issues. He is frequently quoted in the press as an expert on information management. Mr. Jaar is on the editorial board of Sedona Canada and was in charge of drafting the French version of The Sedona Canada Principles on E-discovery. He is a member of The Sedona Conference’s working groups 1 (USA) and 6 (International). Mr. Jaar is the co-president of the Montreal Bar Association Technology Advisory Liaison Committee with the Quebec courts and is the president of the Law Practice Management and Technology section of the Canadian Bar Association. He is on the ABA Techshow planning board and is a board member of the Canadian IT Association (IT.can). Furthermore, Mr Jaar is the founder and organizer of LegalIT, Canada’s premier conference on legal technologies. Prior to acting as a consultant, Dominic Jaar worked as a commercial litigator at Bell Canada’s legal department, specializing in e-discovery. Prior to moving in-house, Mr. Jaar worked as a commercial litigator at Borden Ladner Gervais. He is a member of the Quebec Bar and graduated from Laval University after studying at Western University (Common Law) and Aix-Marseille (International and European Law).

Nils Jensen is a senior litigator with the British Columbia Prosecution Service in Victoria BC. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law where he has taught evidence, trial and appellate advocacy. He has also taught trial advocacy, criminal law and evidence in Canada’s first Inuit Law Program in Iqualuit, Nunavut. He has been a frequent contributor to Continuing Legal Education courses, the Pacific Legal Technology Conference, Bar Admission courses and Royal Canadian Mounted Police training. His innovative use of technology in the courtroom has gained him a reputation as a leader in the field. He has used technology before judges and juries in cases ranging from impaired driving to major frauds and murder. While seconded to the Court Services Branch of the Ministry of Attorney General in Victoria, he led the award winning expansion of the videoconference network, now used widely in British Columbia courts and correctional centres. He was also the driving force behind the ground-breaking adjudication system used to resolve municipal bylaw disputes. The project received a provincial Premier’s Award. He holds an undergraduate degree in Applied Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, and a Masters of Law from London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. He was has been an elected city alderman in Oak Bay, a suburb of Victoria since 1996. For the past 8 years he has been chairman of the Regional Water Supply Commission.

Dennis Kennedy is a well-known information technology lawyer, legal technologist, author, speaker and blogger. An award-winning author, he writes the technology column for the ABA Journal and, along with Tom Mighell, is the author of The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together. His website and blog are highly-regarded resources on legal technology, collaboration, Law 2.0 and related topics. Dennis is a member of the Council and Education Board of the ABA's Law Practice Management Section.

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Carole Levitt is the President of Internet For Lawyers (IFL), an Internet research training company. She is co-author of two books: The Lawyer’s Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet (published by the ABA LPM Section) and The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet (published by IFL Press) and co-editor of the Internet Fact Finding For Lawyers newsletter. Carole has also authored numerous articles and is a nationally recognized speaker who has presented at: the Annual meetings of the ABA and the California State Bar; ABA TECHSHOW; and hundreds of state and local bar associations, companies, and law firms over the past 9 years. Carole serves on the ABA Law Practice Management Section’s Publications Advisory Board and Executive Council. She is also a member of the Association of Continuing Legal Education.

Adriana Linares is a legal technology trainer and consultant with a passion for the business and technology of law. Prior to launching LawTech Partners, she spent several years dreaming up, creating and leading the in-house training departments of two of Florida's largest law firms. Today, Adriana travels the country delivering "tech therapy" sessions to firms of all shapes and sizes. Using her practical and personal approach to technology she helps legal professionals maximize their skills and investments through training sessions delivered via the web or in person. She speaks and writes regularly for local and national legal groups and publications and hosts her own advice column on her blog, I {heart} Tech. Adriana currently serves as the Chair of the Technology Core Group of the Law Practice Management Section of the ABA. Learn more about Adriana and her services at www.lawtechpartners.com.

Britt Lorish Knuttgen is the President of Automated Horizons, Inc., a legal technology consulting firm which she founded in 2000. A former litigation paralegal and law firm network administrator, she has extensive experience conducting training on legal specific software and specializes in tailoring custom technology solutions for law firms. Ms. Knuttgen provides consulting, installation, customization and training for clients throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean. Ms. Knuttgen and her team at Automated Horizons are certified in a wide variety of legal software applications, including the top legal software packages used in most small to medium sized law practices. These include software for practice management, legal accounting/time & billing, document management, document assembly, voice recognition and litigation support. Ms. Knuttgen regularly speaks and writes on legal technology issues at the local, regional and national level.

Ralph C. Losey is an attorney, author, and nationally recognized expert in e-discovery. In private practice since 1980, he has over 70 published opinions to his credit. Ralph is a shareholder of Akerman Senterfitt, an AmLaw 100 law firm with offices throughout Florida, Washington D.C., New York City, Los Angeles, and Denver. He is the chair of Akerman’s e-Discovery practice group. Ralph is the author of the American Bar Association's two bestselling books on electronic discovery: Introduction to e-Discovery: New Cases, Ideas, and Techniques (2009); and, e-Discovery: Current Trends and Cases (2008). He is also the publisher of the popular weekly blog on e-discovery - the e-Discovery Team. Ralph is an active participant in The Sedona Conference and a frequent speaker at e-discovery conferences and CLEs around the country. Ralph is also the author of several scholarly law review articles on e-discovery and is an Adjunct Professor teaching e-discovery at the University of Florida School of Law. Ralph has been an avid computer user and technologist since 1978. He was one of the first attorneys in the country with an Internet website, which he still maintains at FloridaLawFirm.com. He was certified by The Florida Bar as a mediator of computer law disputes in 1989 and has been involved with electronic discovery since the 1990s. Ralph has limited his legal practice to electronic discovery related services since 2006. He serves as national e-counsel and e-discovery team coach for several large corporations and also provides advice on e-discovery issues for the several hundred trial lawyers in his law firm. Ralph Losey received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1973 and his J.D. from the University of Florida School of Law in 1979.

A general practitioner in Montrose, Colorado, his practice focuses on real estate and business matters, transactions and litigation. He received his law degree from the University of Montana in 1986. He wrote the book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Adobe Acrobat, published by the American Bar Association. David writes and speaks frequently on the use of information technology in the practice of law.

Steve Matthews is the founder of Stem Legal, a company that helps law firms build online profile and increase web-driven business. His work at Stem ranges from Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and link building campaigns, to audience profiling and content development strategies. He also helps law firms leverage the new social web, including law blogs, content syndication strategies (ie. RSS), social networking, and business market conversations. Steve’s online involvement dates back to the earliest days of the web. Between 1998 and 2007, he was the Knowledge Services Director for a mid-sized Canadian law firm Clark Wilson LLP. In this role, he was the driving force behind the firm’s web strategy, including concept development, design, coding, web marketing and SEO operations. His role also included directing the firm’s internal Knowledge Management program and Library Services. Steve is also an enthusiastic law blogger. Since 2004, he has published his thoughts on legal web technology & research on his Vancouver Law Librarian Blog. He also writes Law Firm Web Strategy, the official blog of Stem Legal, and is a founding member of the Canadian legal co-op blog Slaw.

Edward J. Malinowski is the Chief Security Officer and Director of Technology / Infrastructure for the American Bar Association. Prior to joining the ABA, he was the National Security Manager for Network Associates, providing high-level technology and security services to government, military, and Fortune 500 clients worldwide. Mr. Malinowski has an extensive background in Information Security and Information Technology. His efforts as a civilian within the Department of Defense earned him the Pentagon SAM Director’s Coin for Excellence, and he has assisted both private industry and law enforcement in the performance of intrusion forensics and analysis. He authored the certification program and examinations for a major firewall vendor, and trained its initial instructors both here and overseas. A true technophile, Mr. Malinowski’s passion spills over into his personal life, where his “test network” seems to heat one entire room of his home. Outside of IT, Mr. Malinowski enjoys his humble attempts at photography, and teaching martial arts.

Browning E. Marean is a partner 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 to avoid litigation risk and to meet 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. Mr. Marean also specializes in the areas of complex business litigation, technology matters, knowledge management and professional responsibility. Mr. Marean is a nationally known teacher and lecturer on various topics including computer technology and its application to efficient practice and matter management, e-discovery, knowledge management, risk and decision analysis and legal ethics issues. Mr. Marean joined the firm (then Gray Cary Ames & Frye) in 1969. He is a member of DLA Piper's Technology Committee, as well as a member of the Sedona Conference. He also is on the San Diego County Bar Association Ethics Committee and an emeritus member of the California State Bar Law Practice Management Committee. Mr. Marean is Co-author of "Electronic Discovery and Records Management Guide, Rules, Checklists and Forms" 2008 Edition published by Thomson West, and "Conducting Discovery in an 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. He is admitted to practice in California and Texas.

Erik Mazzone is the Director of the Center for Practice Management for the North Carolina Bar Association, where he helps NCBA members with issues related to technology, finance, marketing and management. Prior to joining the NCBA, Erik was the managing partner of a multi-office law firm and the principal in a law practice management consulting company. He is a graduate of Boston College and Boston College Law School.

Lincoln Mead is the IT Director of the Utah State Bar and an obsessive fan of Cubs baseball. As the Bar IT Director he assists Utah attorneys with evaluations of practice management technology and manages the relationships with the technology providers on the Utah State Bar group benefits program. Lincoln currently serves as the Vice chair of IT section for the National Association of Bar Executives and is a member of the Law Practice Management Section of the ABA where he serves on the Technology Core Group. He is a frequent guest lecturer for other Bars and law related organizations around the country where he speaks on technology policy, planning, implementation and use. He is currently working on the creation of a hosted gateway system for accessing the Utah Court’s new e-filing system.

Tom Mighell is a Senior Manager at Fios Consulting, where he assists clients in developing defensible, repeatable processes for responding to e-Discovery requests. Tom is immediate Past Chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2008, and he served on the TECHSHOW Board from 2004-2008. Tom is a frequent speaker and writer on e-Discovery, the Internet, and other legal technology issues, and is the co-author of The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies: Smart Ways to Work Together. He also publishes the blogs Inter Alia and The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration. Tom received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.

Donna, a practicing solo attorney in Ottawa, Canada, since 1996, provides services in estate planning, estate administration, elder law and real estate. As a consultant and project manager in the high tech industry in a previous career, Donna has extensive experience in the development and use of technology in a business setting. She has been invited to present estate planning seminars to a wide range of corporate and community groups. She enjoys sharing her personal experiences in how to 'go paperless' in a small law office. Donna graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1976 with an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree. After successful careers in teaching and the high tech industry, she returned to school to complete her law degree in 1994 at the University of Ottawa. Her designation as a Trusts and Estates Practitioner was awarded in 2001. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association.

Dan Nelson is a partner with Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, Missouri. He focuses his practice in the representation of both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial disputes. He also founded, and is the Chair of, the firm's Electronic Discovery Group.

Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., is the President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc., a computer forensics and legal technology firm located in Fairfax, Virginia. Ms. Nelson graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1978 and has been in private practice ever since, now concentrating exclusively in electronic evidence law. Ms. Nelson is a past President of the Fairfax Bar Association, a Director of the Fairfax Law Foundation and serves as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Publishing Board and as a member of ARMA’s E-Discovery Advisory Group. She is also a graduate of Leadership Fairfax, is a past chair of ABA TECHSHOW and serves on the Virginia State Bar governing Council. She is a co-author of The Electronic Evidence and Discovery Handbook: Forms, Checklists and Guidelines (American Bar Association, 2006) and Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms (American Bar Association, 2006), as well as The 2008 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide: Critical Decisions Made Simple ( American Bar Association, 2008). She is a frequent author and speaker on legal technology and electronic evidence throughout the country.

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. His initial exposure to a document intensive case came several years later when he assisted several public interest firms in Boston with a class action voting rights suit brought on behalf of patients at state hospitals. Over the years he has been involved in asbestos litigation, the Keating case, the San Diego Civic Center construction litigation, California class actions against crematoriums, national breast implant litigation, tobacco litigation on behalf of the Attorney General of Texas and various phases of the Enron litigation.

Sometime over the past 20 years, Tom also found time to return to law school and acquire a J.D. He and his best friend Gayle hope someday to have their own float with their son, Seamus, in a Mardi Gras parade down the Mississippi down in New Orleans, where Tom now resides.

Patrick is Director of Electronic Discovery and Senior Litigation Counsel at Verizon in Washington, DC. Inside Counsel Magazine named Verizon's e-discovery team as one of the ten most innovative legal groups of 2006 and 2007. Patrick has extensive experience in discovery practices involving commercial litigation, regulatory filings, and antitrust matters. He is charged with advising Verizon's business units on electronic discovery while developing new technologies and strategies that meet the goals of Rule 1 of The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. He has also testified as Verizon's 30(b)(6) witness for discovery-related inquiries in other matters. Patrick has testified before the United States Judicial Conference's Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence where he presented Verizon's position and contributed language included in its draft to the Judicial Conference. Patrick actively participates in The Sedona Conference® Working Group 1 on Electronic Document Retention and Product. He lectures regularly at educational events, legal conferences, and general counsel round tables internationally.

Attorney Nerino Petro is the Practice Management Advisor for the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Practice411™ Law Office Management Assistance Program. The mission of Practice411™ is to help attorneys operate their offices more effectively and efficiently. Licensed in Illinois and Wisconsin, Mr. Petro uses his 16 years of legal practice experience and 12 years of experience being CEO/Senior Legal Technologist for CenCom Legal Technologies which he founded in 1994, to help Wisconsin lawyers and their staff deal with the practice management issues facing them. He is a member of the ABA GP, Solo and Small Firm Division Technology Committee and serves on the GP|Solo Magazine Technology & Practice Guide Board. Mr. Petro is the ABA LPM Magazine Product Watch columnist as well as being a regular contributor to local, state and national publications. He provides information on legal technology, practice management and items of interest to lawyers on his blawg at www.compujurist.com .

Tim Piganelli is the Owner and Founder of Legal Technology Consulting (LTC), an Arizona based firm providing clients with strategic solutions in the areas of discovery and trial consulting. Tim began working with legal professionals in 1988 as a consulting engineer in Accident Reconstruction. In 1993, he directed his efforts to the area of litigation support and trial consulting. Since LTC’s launch in 1996, Tim has led a team of experts in the areas of trial strategies, jury consulting, graphics and animation, trial presentation, courtroom technology, eDiscovery, and litigation support. Tim is considered as one of the most experienced trial and discovery consultants in the country working cases such as the Exxon Valdez Litigation, The Rosie O’Donnell Case and the Park Cattle – Horizon Casino case. In addition he lectures nationally and authors articles for ABA TECHSHOW, TechnoLaywer, The International Association of Science and Technology Development (IASTED), Litigation Support Today, Legal Tech, and Paralegal Super Conferences, as well as several national, state bar, and paralegal associations. Tim has taught hundreds of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminars around the country on a variety of trial and discovery topics. A graduate of Arizona State University, Tim holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering Technology. He is currently an adjunct professor teaching Computer Assisted Litigation at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, CA, and previously has taught at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, CA, and Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver, CO.

Dan Pinnington is Director, practicePRO at the Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company (LAWPRO) in Toronto. practicePRO is an innovative claims prevention initiative that provides lawyers with tools and resources to assist them in avoiding malpractice claims and succeeding in the practice of law. Dan has a LLB/JD from the Universities of Windsor and Detroit and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1993. Prior to joining LAWPRO Dan practiced for eight years in the Litigation Department of a Niagara area law firm. He has extensive hands-on experience with legal technologies and for several years also held the Manager of Information Systems position at his firm. Dan is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and is a prolific writer and speaker on risk management, technology and law practice management issues. He is a veteran of hundreds of presentations at law firms, CLE programs and conferences all over North America, and has chaired more than a dozen major conferences. Dan is very active in the ABA's Law Practice Management Section. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of ABA LPM’s Law Practice Magazine, and one of his monthly columns from the magazine won the 2007 Edge Award for Best Regular Column. He was Chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2007 and helped launch the Law Practice Today Webzine. He has contributed chapters to several books published by the ABA LPM Section. Through a variety of roles Dan has and continues to actively participate in the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations. He is Co-Chair of the CBA Niagara Fall 2010 Annual Conference. Dan is very busy at home as well as he and his wife Elizabeth have 5 children under the age of eleven.

Mary Pat Poteet Director of Litigation Support 401 B Street Suite 1700 San Diego, CA 92101-4297 (619)699-2886 T (619)764-6675 F marypat.poteet@dlapiper.com EDUCATION • San Diego State University, B.A. EXPERIENCE Mary Pat Poteet is the Director of Litigation Support for DLA Piper US LLP. 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 also speaks and writes frequently on electronic discovery topics. PUBLICATIONS • Author of “California Civil Discovery Practice, 4th ed.” • Co-Author of “Electronic Discovery and Records Management Guide: Rules, Checklists and Forms” • Editorial Board Member, Litigation Today magazine MEMBERSHIPS • Vice President, Litigation Support Peer Group, International Legal Technology Association • Founding Member, Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Glen R. Pritchard is an attorney with Clark, Perdue & List Co., L.P.A., in Columbus, Ohio, where he is the chief technologist. He earned his B.A. at Denison University and his J.D. at The Ohio State University. Mr. Pritchard writes and lectures frequently on insurance law and law office technology. He is a member of the Columbus and Ohio State Bar Associations, the Ohio Association for Justice (past secretary, Insurance Law Section; currently serving on Editorial Board for Ohio Trial magazine), the Central Ohio Association for Justice (former chair, Negligence Law Committee), and the American Association for Justice. He has argued insurance law cases before the Ohio Supreme Court and in intermediate appellate courts throughout Ohio. Mr. Pritchard’s practice is concentrated in plaintiff’s personal injury, wrongful death, and insurance.

David G. Ries is a partner in the Pittsburgh office of Thorp Reed & Armstrong, LLP, where he practices in the areas of environmental, commercial and technology litigation. He has used computers in his practice since the early 1980s and chairs his firm's Technology Committee and E-Discovery and Records Management Group. Dave has frequently spoken on legal technology and technology law issues for legal, academic and professional groups including the American Bar Association, the Association of Corporate Counsel, the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, and Carnegie Mellon University. He served as a member of the ABA TECHSHOW Board for 3 years and spoke on “Anatomy of a Law Firm Data Breach,” “Protecting Your Client’s Data While on the Road,” and “Ethics in E-Discovery – Staying Out of the Briar Patch” at TECHSHOW 2008 in Chicago. He is the editor of e-Discovery (Pennsylvania Bar Institute 2008). He is a contributing author to Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms (American Bar Association 2006). Dave received his J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1974 and his B.A. from Boston College in 1971. He can be contacted at dries@thorpreed.com or at (412) 394-7787.

Nancy Roberts Linder is the Principal of Nancy Roberts Linder Consulting in LaGrange, Illinois, a marketing consulting practice focusing primarily on law firms. Nancy has 20 years of experience working with lawyers and other service industry professionals, which includes serving as the first marketing director for Hinshaw & Culbertson. Nancy served on the board of the Legal Marketing Association Chicago Chapter for eleven years, twice as the chapter’s president. In conjunction with LMA/Chicago, Nancy teaches a marketing course for law students, which has been taught at Chicago-Kent College of Law for eight years and is a program that she developed. In 2003, Chicago-Kent College of Law bestowed Nancy with a Professional Achievement Award for the innovative curriculum she created. Nancy has published more than 100 articles and speaks on a variety of law firm marketing topics. She writes a monthly column on client development issues for Intellectual Property Today which is read by patent lawyers nationwide, and has written articles for the ABA Young Lawyer, Chicago Lawyer and ALA Advantage on law marketing topics.

As Vice President of Internet For Lawyers, Rosch is the developer and manager of the Internet For Lawyers Web site. He writes and speaks about how to use the Internet for research and technology implementation for the legal community. He is co-author of The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet (IFL Press), The Lawyer’s Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet (A.B.A.) and co-editor of the Internet Fact Finding For Lawyers newsletter (ALI-ABA). He has also written about the application of computer technology in the law office for Law Office Computing, Los Angeles Lawyer, and the Los Angeles Daily Journal, among other publications. Additionally, he has presented at the Annual meetings of the ABA, the National Association of Bar Executives, the Association of Continuing Legal Education, the California State Bar, and in-house at various firms. Mr. Rosch is a member of the ABA and serves as a Vice-Chair of its LPM Section Education Board. He is also a member of the Association of Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA), serving as Chair of ACLEA’s Entrepreneur’s section and a past Chair of its Marketing section. He was graduated from Tulane University, in New Orleans, with a degree in Sociology and can be reached at mrosch@netforlawyers.com.

Judge James M. Rosenbaum is a Minnesota native. He attended the University of Minnesota, earning his B.A, in 1966, and his J.D. in 1969. He began practice in Chicago, Illinois, as a VISTA lawyer, trying federal civil rights cases. In 1972 he returned to private practice in Minnesota, specializing in trial work. In 1981, Judge Rosenbaum was appointed Minnesota’s United States Attorney, serving until 1985, when he was appointed to the United States District Court. He served, from 1997-2005, as the Eighth Circuit’s elected representative to the Judicial Conference of the United States, the Judiciary’s governing authority. His articles, “In Defense of the Delete Key” and “In Defense of the Hard Drive” have been translated into nearly 20 languages (accessible at www.greenbag.org), are recognized for their analysis of the intersection of law, privacy and technology. His newest article, “In Defense of the Sugar Bowl,” considers the criminal investigation of electronically stored information. The Judge has lectured, both at home and abroad on legal technology and intellectual property issues. The judge has been named one of Minnesota’s “100 Most Influential Lawyers.” The Judge, and his wife Marilyn, herself a Minnesota State Judge, are the parents of three adult daughters.

Catherine Sanders Reach is the Director at the American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center. She has provided practice technology assistance for lawyers for over eight years with the LTRC. Prior to her work at the ABA she worked in library and information science environments for a number of years. She received a master's degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in 1997. Ms. Reach's professional activities include articles published in Law Practice magazine, Law Technology News and GPSolo Magazine, and her continuing research on the digital library appeared in the AALL Law Library Journal. She has given presentations on the use of technology in law firms for national bar conferences, state and local bar associations and organizations such as the Association of Legal Administrators. In her articles and presentations she often references trends and statistics gleaned from the Center's annual legal technology survey. She is a member of Beta Phi Mu, an international library and information studies honor society, and the Special Libraries Association, where she is the Director of the Legal Division. She has served on the ABA TECHSHOW Board since 2007 and is on the editorial advisory board for Law Technology and Law.com’s LegalTechnology.

Ben M. Schorr is a technologist and Chief Executive Officer for Roland Schorr & Tower a professional consulting firm headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii. In that capacity he consults with a wide variety of organizations including many law firms. He is frequently sought as a writer, teacher and speaker for groups as diverse as the Hawaii Visitor and Convention Bureau and the American Bar Association. Almost 10 years ago Microsoft named him as an MVP in their Outlook product group and he has been supporting Outlook, Exchange and most recently OneNote ever since. Prior to co-founding Roland Schorr, Schorr was the Director of Information Services for Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert, a large Honolulu law firm, for almost 8 years. Schorr was a contributing author for "Using Microsoft Office 2000" by Que and has been a technical editor or contributor on a number of other books over the years. For several years he has been half of the "Ask the Exchange Pros" team for Windows Server System magazine. He is the author of "Microsoft Outlook 2007 for Lawyers" which was published by the American Bar Association. In October of 2005 Schorr was named by the Pacific Technology Foundation as one of the Top 50 Technology Leaders in Hawaii. He's a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) Computer Society, the American Bar Association and the United States Naval Institute. In his free time Schorr enjoys coaching football, running marathons, reading, playing softball, ocean kayaking and has completed the Tinman triathlon 3 times. He lives in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.

Mr. Simek is the Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. and has a national reputation as a computer forensics technologist and has testified as an expert witness throughout the United States. Mr. Simek holds a degree in engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy and an MBA in finance from Saint Joseph’s University. After forming Sensei, he ended his 20+ year affiliation with Mobil Oil Corporation, where he served as a senior technologist designing and troubleshooting Mobil’s networks throughout the western hemisphere. In addition to his EnCase Certification (EnCE), Mr. Simek is a Certified Handheld Examiner, Certified Novell Engineer, Microsoft Certified Professional + Internet, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, NT Certified Independent Professional, and a Certified Internetwork Professional. He is also a member of the High Tech Crime Network and of the International Information Systems Forensics Association as well as the American Bar Association. He is a member of the ABA Law Practice Management Publications Board and an Advisory Board member for the ABA’s Law Practice TODAY webzine. He currently provides information technology support to over 220 area law firms, legal entities and corporations. He is a co-author of The Electronic Evidence and Discovery Handbook: Forms, Checklists and Guidelines (American Bar Association, 2006), Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms (American Bar Association, 2006), The 2008 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide: Critical Decisions Made Simple (American Bar Association, 2008) and a contributing author of eDiscovery (Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 2008). He is a frequent author and speaker on legal technology and electronic evidence throughout the country.

Andy Simpson is the principal of a two lawyer, insurance defense and litigation law firm in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In private practice for twenty years, he is an early adopter of law office technology, beginning with his first “laptop,” the 28-pound Osborne Executive. He uses technology to enhance the quality of service he delivers to his clients and to gain for trial. He credits his use of technology with saving an innocent court appointed client from jail and for helping him deliver the first ever gender discrimination verdict against the U.S. Marshals Service. He has been a speaker on law office technology topics at each of the ABA’s National Solo and Small Firm Conferences as well as for the Virgin Islands Bar Association. He is an ex-officio member of the Editorial Board of GP|Solo Magazine’s Technology & Practice Guide, a frequent contributor to GP|Solo, and an active member of the ABA SoloSez listserv. Andy graduated from Tulane School of Law in 1988 and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point in 1982. He is a regular attendee of ABA TECHSHOW, readily identified because he appears in his standard office attire – Hawaiian shirts.

Mr. Smith is the proprietor of R. A. Smith, Ltd. and a staff attorney for the Chicago Legal Clinic. His practice focuses on appellate litigation and general civil representation. As a staff attorney for the Chicago Legal Clinic, he operates the Municipal Pro Bono Program, providing legal services to Defendants in cases filed in the Municipal District Courts in Cook County. Mr. Smith is an avid legal technologist, managing his private practice and public program as a virtual and nearly paperless practice by leveraging technology to efficiently serve his clients.

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 EDRM (the Electronic Discovery Reference Model project), now is its fourth year. George has a J.D. for Cornell Law School and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. George can be reached at www.sochaconsulting.com, george@sochaconsulting.com and 651.690.1739.

David Sparks is a business litigation and transactional attorney with George & Shields, LLP in Irvine California. David graduated from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 1990 with honors and from Pepperdine University, School of Law in 1993 as a merit scholarship recipient. David also served as an extern with the United States Federal District Court in Los Angeles. Since that time David has actively practiced law and participated in several legal and community based organizations. David is also very involved with technology. Specifically with respect to the use of Apple computers in the practice of law. David publishes the MacSparky blog where he distributes tutorial screencasts, software reviews, and provides general advice on incorporating Macintosh computers into a productive professional and personal workflow. David is also a regular contributor to several influential Apple based publications and podcasts including The Mac Roundtable, The Typical Mac User, and the MacReviewCast.

Ben Stevens is the founding partner of Stevens - MacPhail, P.A. in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where his principal area of practice is family law. Ben completed his undergraduate studies with honors at Clemson University in 1992, and he received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of South Carolina. He has been an active member of the South Carolina Bar, South Carolina Association for Justice, American Bar Association, and American Association for Justice since 1995. He is also a certified Family Court Mediator and a trained collaborative lawyer. Ben is the proud father of two children, and he spends his free time supporting his beloved Clemson Tigers and coaching little league baseball and basketball. Ben is very involved with legal technology, particularly as it relates to the use of Macs in the practice of law. He created and has published The Mac Lawyer blog (www.TheMacLawyer.com) since August of 2006, and since that time, it has become one of the leading legal technology blogs. Ben also co-founded the Macs in Law Offices (MILO) group (groups.google.com/group/ milogroup/), which serves as an open forum for discussions in that subject area. He also publishes two other legal blogs: the South Carolina Family Law blog (www.SCFamilyLaw.com) and the South Carolina Personal Injury Law blog (www.SCPILaw.com). Ben serves on the editorial board for the ABA’s Law Practice Today webzine and also is a member of the ABA Technology Core Group. He enjoys giving presentations on the subjects of family law and legal technology to audiences all across the country.

Reid F. Trautz is the director of the Practice & Professionalism Center for American Immigration Lawyers Association, where he provides ethics guidance and practice management information and consulting services to members to help them improve their businesses and the delivery of legal services to their clients. He is a nationally-recognized author and speaker on practice management solutions and innovations. Reid is an active member of the ABA, currently serving on the ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board, and as a member of the GP Solo and Small Firm Division Technology Board. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. He is admitted to the bars of Minnesota, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

Paul J. Unger is a 1994 graduate of Capital University Law School. He is an attorney and founding member of HMU Consulting, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio. Prior to forming HMU in February of 2000, Paul was Vice President of a Columbus-based technology consulting firm. He spent five years at Clark, Perdue, Roberts & Scott Co., L.P.A., limiting his practice to civil litigation. Mr. Unger now specializes in litigation technology consulting, trial presentation, document and case management software, and legal-specific software training for law firms and legal departments throughout the Midwest. Mr. Unger is a member of The American Society of Trial Consultants, the American Bar Association, the Ohio and Columbus Bar Associations, the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Franklin County Trial Lawyers Association.

Dave Waxse is a United States Magistrate Judge for the District Court in Kansas City, Kansas. He is also an Observer to The Sedona Conference Working Groups on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1) and International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure (WG6). He has been a lecturer in law at the University of Kansas School of Law and has made presentations on ESI in programs presented by the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the Defense Research Institute, the University of Kansas, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, Washburn Law School, Georgetown Law School, the Kansas Bar Association, the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, ALI-ABA,PLI, Kroll Ontrack, LexisNexis Applied Discovery and others. His is the author of "Do I Really Have To Do That? Rule 26(a)(1) Disclosures and Electronic Information," 10 RICH.J. L. & TECH. 50(2004),at http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/v10i5/article50.pdf. and “Trends in Discovery of Electronically Stored Information”25 ACC Docket 35 January/February, 2007. Judge Waxse received his B.A. degree from the University of Kansas and his J.D. degree from Columbia University. Prior to his appointment as a Magistrate Judge he was a partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon.

David Whelan is a lawyer and law librarian and has worked in a variety of legal information environments. Following law school David was head of computing for the SMU School of Law Underwood Law Library, in Dallas, Texas. He was subsequently the director of the American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center, where he was involved in practice technology and Web information projects. David left the ABA to join the Cincinnati Law Library Association, a county subscription law library in Ohio. As library director, David shifted the library's services to integrate online, remote access legal research for the library's subscribers. He joined the Law Society of Upper Canada in 2007 and, as Manager, Legal Information, is responsible for the Great Library and Corporate Records and Archives. David is a frequent speaker and writer on legal technology, legal research, and information topics. He received his law degree from the University of Arkansas-Little Rock and his library degree from the University of North Texas.