Strategic E-Discovery: Taking Steps to Avoid Litigation’s Black Hole

Kenneth B Leissler
Managing Director, Electronic Discovery Practice
LECG, LLC

Kenneth B. Leissler, a managing director in LECG’s New York office, is the electronic discovery practice leader. Mr. Leissler, formerly a director in a Big Four accounting firm, has led and managed several hundred large technology projects relating to the forensic recovery of data demanded by subpoena. He has also led a team to forensically produce millions of pages of client data for critical privileged legal review. Mr. Leissler’s areas of expertise include supporting investigations relating to a host of areas within the financial services arena and corporate counsel offices, including: financial restatements, Sarbanes Oxley violations, market timing allegations, financial frauds, whistle-blower matters, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission allegations, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act allegations, insurance fraud, and allegations of market price fixing within the pharmaceutical industry.

Mr. Leissler has extensive expertise in financial fraud investigations and offers training in the areas of computer forensic investigations and advanced forensic techniques. He is experienced in electronic discovery and forensic imaging of electronic media for documentation of email storage, duplication, and deletion as well as financial crimes of altered documents, embezzlement, and illegal money laundering.

Mr. Leissler has 31 years of law enforcement and corporate investigative experience. Since 1987, Mr. Leissler has been an instructor of computer crime and crime analysis courses at several universities, colleges, and state police academies nationwide, and is currently instructing courses in advanced computer crime investigative techniques at Farleigh Dickinson University Cyber Crime Lab in New Jersey. He is an active member of the High Tech Crime Investigators Association (HTCIA), New York City Electronic Crimes Task Force, International Association of Computer Investigation Specialists (IACIS) and the Health Care Financial Management Association (HFMA). He has worked on several hundred high-tech investigations that have resulted in positive convictions and has testified as an expert witness on the subject of computer forensic evidence and Internet investigations.

Mr. Leissler is a graduate of the renowned Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) as a seized computer evidence recovery specialist (SCERS), the National Intelligence Academy as a certified wiretap installer, and the University of Kentucky, National Crime Prevention Institute (TCAT). He is an EnCase certified examiner (EnCE) through Guidance Software.

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Richard Gomes, CISSP, CISA
SVP Corporate IT Risk Management Policy, Worldwide Records Management Program
Citigroup Global Markets

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Michael R. Geske
Chief Operating Officer
Aphelion Legal Solutions

Mike Geske litigated for 17 years at Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington DC, working on all phases of complex, commercial and discovery intensive cases, regulatory investigations and HSR pre merger reviews. His work focused on defending Fortune 100 clients with intensive document review and privilege hurdles, including defending and asserting privilege log challenges. Mike now specializes in that work in his role as Chief Operating Officer of Aphelion Legal Solutions, a global consulting and legal process outsourcing firm with offices in Washington, DC, Houston, and an operating facility in Chennai, India.

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Simon Taylor
Senior Director Information Access and Management
CommVault

Simon is the Senior Director for the CommVault Information Access & Management business worldwide including Information Risk, eDiscovery, Compliance, Information Search, Archiving, and Data Trend Analysis. Over the last 20 years he has worked for many large multi-national companies in various management roles including business analysis, project management, sales, product marketing and business development. His field of expertise covers a range of topics including business intelligence, data warehousing, application and information management, with over 7 years specific experience in data retention and archiving, working for or with some of the leading companies in this field to gain specialist knowledge in information risk and compliance.

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Strategic E-Discovery: Taking Steps to Avoid Litigation’s Black Hole
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