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Brett M. Anders Brett M. Anders is a partner in the Morristown office of Jackson Lewis where he exclusively represents management in workplace law, including counseling and litigation. He routinely advises clients regarding day-to-day employment issues, such as employee discipline and discharge, disability management issues, reductions-in-force and restrictive covenants. Mr. Anders is co-chair of the firm’s E-Discovery and Workplace Technology practice group and is a member of the firm’s Disability, Leave and Health Management practice group. Mr. Anders is also a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Section and is a co-chair of the Section’s E-Discovery Committee. He has also successfully argued several motions regarding the spoliation of electronic evidence and has conducted the direct and cross-examinations of forensic computer experts and/or IT professionals at trial. Mr. Anders received his juris doctor degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1997. He conducted his undergraduate studies at the State University of New York at Albany. Prior to joining Jackson Lewis, Mr. Anders worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Louis F. Locascio, J.S.C. Mr. Anders is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York and before the United States Supreme Court. James A. Batson James A. Batson has been a partner of Liddle & Robinson, L.L.P. since 1998. He is a leader in the field of electronic discovery. He was counsel of record for the plaintiff on all of the widely-followed Zubulake v. UBS Warburg decisions. This expertise often proves critical to achieving a successful result in litigation, as e-mails and other forms of electronic communication increasingly become the critical evidence upon which cases are won and lost. For instance, in Zubulake V, the Court ordered UBS to pay monetary sanctions and granted plaintiff’s request that an adverse inference instruction be given to the jury at trial. Ultimately, the jury returned a verdict in favor of Laura Zubulake in the amount of $29.2 Million, which consisted of $9.1 Million in compensatory damages and $20.1 Million in punitive damages. Mr. Batson represents individuals in all aspects of litigation. Although employment disputes make up the majority of matters upon which he works, his experience also encompasses a broad array of commercial disputes. In addition to numerous state and federal courts, Mr. Batson has appeared in arbitrations at the NYSE, the NASD, the American Arbitration Association and the Chicago Board of Trade. He has also argued appeals before the New York Appellate Division and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Batson earned his law degree and M.B.A. from Fordham University. Steven C. Bennett Steve Bennett's practice at Jones Day focuses on domestic and international commercial litigation and arbitration, including cases involving bankruptcy, construction, corporate, energy, insurance, intellectual property, securities, and other disputes. Steve is chair of the Firm's e-Discovery Committee and a founding member of the Sedona Conference Working Group on International E-Discovery. He also has been an active member of the Firm's construction practice team and is responsible for training litigation associates in the New York Office. He co-teaches a course on advanced civil procedure (e-discovery) at Rutgers Law School and previously taught a course in domestic and international commercial arbitration at Brooklyn Law School and a course on privacy law at Hunter College. He is a member of the Large Case Advisory Committee for the American Arbitration Association and a member of the ADR Subcommittee of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Civil Litigation. Steve regularly speaks to a wide array of groups for CLE and other purposes. He has written more than 150 articles on a variety of topics, including: arbitration, bankruptcy, construction contracts, electronic discovery, ethics, insurance, international dispute resolution, mediation, online contracting, privacy, and civil RICO. His book, Arbitration: Essential Concepts (American Lawyer Media) was published in 2002. Allison L. Brecher Allison L. Brecher is a Senior Litigation Counsel and Director of Information Management & Strategy of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., a global financial services company based in New York. Allison coordinates and oversees the search and collection of electronic records when requested of the company’s more than 50,000 employees in over 100 countries in the context of litigation, subpoenas, government investigations, internal audits, and similar matters. She was recently selected to become a member of the Advisory Board of the Georgetown University Law Center’s E-Discovery Institute. She frequently writes and speaks about emerging issues relating to this growing area of law. Before and during law school, Allison worked as a field reporter/producer at several television stations. Allison graduated from Union College (B.A. cum laude with high honors 1993) and DePaul University College of Law (J.D. 1996), where she was a member of a law journal, received several American Jurisprudence awards, and served as a legal writing teaching assistant. She co-authored the book E-Discovery Plain and Simple (available April 2009) which offers a “plain English” crash course in electronic discovery and information technology. Honorable Claire C. Cecchi, U.S.M.J. Honorable Claire C. Cecchi, USMJ is a United States Magistrate Judge of the District of New Jersey, sitting in Newark, New Jersey. Prior to her appointment, Judge Cecchi was a Partner at McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Association, a Director to the Historical Society of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and a Master of the William J. Brennan, Jr./Arthur T. Vanderbilt American Inn of Court, 2009. Judge Cecchi received her B.A., cum laude, from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. Adam I. Cohen Adam I. Cohen is a senior managing director in the New York office of FTI’s Technology Consulting practice. Mr. Cohen is a nationally recognized expert in electronic discovery and electronic information management policy issues, who advises on planning and implementation issues associated with every phase of electronic discovery in litigations and investigations as well as electronic information management policies and practices. Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Cohen was a litigation partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, where he represented major corporate clients in complex litigation involving computer and Internet-related issues. He is co-author (with Weil partner David J. Lender) of the treatise Electronic Discovery: Law and Practice (Aspen Publishers), which already has been cited as authority in several landmark electronic discovery opinions by Federal Courts. Mr. Cohen is co-chair of the Electronic Discovery committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Federal and Commercial Litigation Section, a member of the Advisory Board of the Georgetown Law Center E-Discovery Institute, and a member of the board of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. He is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of New York, as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a J.D. from Duke University School of Law. Carlos E. González Professor González is a full-time Professor of Law and Herbert Hannoch Scholar at the Rutgers School of Law – Newark. Professor González earned his B.A. in political science with high distinction from the University of Michigan, and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation from law school, he earned an M.A. in political science from Stanford University, and practiced litigation and employment law at Orrick, Harrington and Sutcliffe in San Francisco. His current research interests include statutory interpretation, direct democracy, popular sovereignty, federalism, and methods for mediating conflict between legal norms. Regina M. Grattan Regina Grattan recently joined BD as Counsel after spending several years as a Litigation Associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Regina works on a variety of matters at BD, including antitrust and products liability litigation and HR/employment matters. Regina is also responsible for the management and administration of Electronic Discovery for BD as well as BD's Global Document Retention and Management Program. Rob Kleeger Rob Kleeger is a Managing Director of the firm The Intelligence Group LLC, a business investigations and intelligence firm providing services that include internal investigations, litigation support, forensics, and security services to corporations and their counsel, with offices in Bedminster, New Jersey. His primary involvement is managing investigations in matters involving crimes facilitated by computers, such as data theft, restricted covenants, non-compete, sexual harassment, discrimination, theft of IP, and more. Mr. Kleeger regularly presents non-technical lectures to law firms, litigation attorneys and their staff through “lunch & learns” and at various bar affiliations or through accredited education providers. Notably, Mr. Kleeger was selected to participate on an e-Discovery "Virtual Advisory Board" for The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS). He is a faculty member of Lawline.com, a former faculty member of the NJ Superior Court Judicial College of the Administrative Office, and is an author and co-author of several articles on e-discovery practices. Mr. Kleeger is co-founder and board member of the Legal Resource Group (an association of high quality, like-minded professionals committed to delivering the highest quality services and solutions to the legal community), member of ALSP (The Association of Litigation Support Professionals), Foundation Board member for Mercer County Bar, and active in many other professional organizations. Kenneth A. Mendelson As Managing Director at Stroz Friedberg, LLC, Ken Mendelson supervises operations in the firm’s Washington, DC office, and manages a docket of digital forensic and electronic discovery assignments. Mr. Mendelson has supervised several multi-terabyte electronic evidence identification, preservation and production engagements on behalf of Fortune 500 corporations in the context of civil, criminal and regulatory investigations and proceedings. Mr. Mendelson’s engagements also involve sitting and former members of Congress, corporations and individuals facing high-profile government enforcement, criminal and congressional investigations, as well as civil litigation before state and federal courts. In these engagements, Mr. Mendelson has managed forensic preservation and analysis of hundreds of computer workstations and was among the first to employ network based, enterprise forensic software to preserve corporate file server data. He has also established and maintained computer forensic laboratories at client sites and assisted in the design of database tools to meet specific client requirements. A frequent lecturer on digital forensics, discovery of electronically stored information (“ESI”) and the impact of the 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Mr. Mendelson has assisted his clients, the Department of Justice and the courts in crafting protocols and procedures to cost-effectively address these challenges. Prior to his work in the private sector, Mr. Mendelson served as Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary for two years, working on legislative initiatives including the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), asset forfeiture reform and other criminal justice and technology matters. He received his J.D. from Boston University Law School. Mr. Mendelson is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) to validate an entity’s adherence to PCI Data Security Standard. Fernando M. Pinguelo Fernando M. Pinguelo, a partner of Norris McLaughlin & Marcus and Co-Chair of its Response to Electronic Discovery and Information Group (REDI), devotes his practice to complex litigation. A leader in the emerging area of electronic discovery, Fernando works with businesses to develop strategies to manage business and legal issues related to electronic documents. Notably, Fernando was involved in New Jersey’s first case addressing its new electronic discovery rule amendments, and has lectured numerous times on the topic, including at the Judicial College of New Jersey. He has designed a state-of-the-art electronic discovery law course and teaches one of only a handful of such courses in the country at Seton Hall University School of Law. Fernando also created eLessons Learned, an educational blog about e-discovery best practices for employees. Kenneth N. Rashbaum Kenneth N. Rashbaum has 30 years of experience as a litigator, representing clients on national and international e-discovery issues in both state and federal courts. He comes to Fios after serving as a partner and electronic discovery co-chair with the Amlaw 200 law firm Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold. His specialty lies in counseling corporations on compliance with federal, state and judicial norms governing data management, privacy and security, with a focus on international and healthcare law. Mr. Rashbaum has vast experience counseling multinational corporations in the U.S., Europe and Asia on privacy and data protection matters as they pertain to cross-border data preservation, collection and production of electronically stored information (ESI). As a director for Fios Consulting, Kenneth Rashbaum advises clients on best practices on electronic document management, litigation discovery and compliance protocols. Terri L. Reicher, Esq. Terri L. Reicher is Associate Vice President and Associate General Counsel specializing in litigation for Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA), the primary private regulator of over 5000 broker-dealers, and 500,000 securities professionals. Ms. Reicher has represented FINRA for the last 16 years in federal and state courts across the country, including several United States Courts of Appeal. She has overseen document preservation and collection in a number of large cases, including class actions and government investigations. Prior to coming to FINRA, Ms. Reicher oversaw securities enforcement cases as an Assistant Attorney General with the Maryland Division of Securities, and prior to that, she was in private practice. Honorable Michael A. Shipp Judge Michael A. Shipp was appointed to the federal bench as a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey, Newark, in October 2007. Prior to his appointment to the federal bench, Judge Shipp served in several different capacities in both government and private practice. Judge Shipp joined the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety (ADepartment@) in September 2003 as the Assistant Attorney General in-charge-of Consumer Protection. He managed a group of 80 Deputy Attorneys General handling consumer, insurance and securities fraud prosecutions, as well as professional boards matters. He was elevated in 2006 and became the key liaison between the Attorney General and directors of the various divisions within the Department, including Consumer Affairs, Civil Rights, Gaming Enforcement, Alcohol Beverage Control, Highway Traffic Safety, the Racing and Juvenile Justice Commissions. In February 2007, Judge Shipp was named Counsel to the Attorney General, where he served as a top advisor on a variety of sensitive legal issues relating to ethics, appointments and other matters requiring personal involvement by the Attorney General. He also assisted in managing day-to-day issues as they arose within the Department. Judge Shipp has been an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University School of Law. He clerked for the New Jersey Supreme Court and was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom for eight years. Judge Shipp graduated from Rutgers University and received his law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law. Angelo A. Stio III Angelo A. Stio III is a commercial litigation partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP and works out of the firm's office in Princeton, New Jersey. Mr. Stio is an experienced commercial trial attorney who has litigated complex matters in jurisdictions throughout the United States. Mr. Stio’s practice primarily focuses on matters involving banking and financial services and securities and corporate governance. He has authored articles and lectured on electronic discovery issues including articles on how to issue a litigation hold and how to create a document retention policy. Mr. Stio is also actively involved in bar association activities. He serves as the editor of the American Bar Association’s Commercial & Business Litigation Committee newsletter, as a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association Class Action Committee, and as a trustee for the Mercer County, New Jersey Bar Association. He also serves on the Mortgage Bankers Association Litigation Subcommittee. Richard J. Wolf Richard J. Wolf is the founder and chief executive of Lexakos Consulting LLC, a business advisory firm that specializes in corporate governance, compliance and ethics program development, and risk assessments for organizations. Mr. Wolf was the head of global compliance at Cendant Corporation from the company’s inception until its breakup in 2006. During his decade as an executive in the corporate law and compliance departments of Cendant, Mr. Wolf used business-process innovations to develop effective compliance and risk management systems to promote ethical conduct and compliance with law. Wolf has served in numerous leadership positions for the legal and compliance community. He is a member of the new Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Certification Program, sponsored by InterCEP and the Department of Homeland Security. Wolf is immediate-past president of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), Greater New York Chapter, is chair of the corporate counsel committee of the ABA Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section, and is a liaison to the ABA Presidential Task Force on Attorney-Client Privilege. He is a federal court-appointed mediator and a distinguished neutral on panels of the CPR International Institute of Conflict Resolution. Mr. Wolf is an elected member of The American Law Institute. Wolf has published many articles on corporate compliance, ethics and risk management, and his work is often cited. His appearances have included The Conference Board, Association of Corporate Counsel, American Bar Association, Directors Roundtable, Computer Forensic Association, and ARMA International. Earlier in his career, Wolf practiced with the law firms of Pitney Hardin and LeBoeuf Lamb. He received his J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was on the editorial board of the law |
Allison L. Brecher
Adam I. Cohen
Terri L. Reicher, Esq.
