The New E-Discovery SNAFU:
Failures, Disputes, & Skyrocketing Legal Costs

Jason R. Baron, Esq. Jason R. Baron, Esq.
Director of Litigation, NARA; Sedona Conference Working Group 1 Steering Committee Member and Editor-in-Chief of the Sedona Conference Commentary on Search and Information Retrieval in E-Discovery
                        National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Jason Baron has served for the past eight years as Director of Litigation for the National Archives and Records Administration, and is an internationally recognized lecturer and author on e-records and e-discovery topics. In his prior role as a trial lawyer and senior counsel at the U.S. Justice Department, he acted as lead counsel in two landmark cases involving the preservation of White House e-mail. As NARA’s representative to The Sedona Conference®, he currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the The Sedona Conference® Best Practices Commentary On the Use of Search and Information Retrieval Methods in E-Discovery. Mr. Baron also serves on the advisory board of the Georgetown Law Center Advanced E-discovery Institute, is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland School of Information Studies, and is a founding coordinator of the TREC Legal Track, a multi-year international research project on text retrieval methods sponsored by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. He received his degrees from Wesleyan University and the Boston University School of Law.

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David R. Cohen David R. Cohen
Partner; Co-chair, e-Discovery Analysis & Technology (“e-DAT”) Practice Group
K&L Gates

David Cohen is a partner in the Pittsburgh office of K&L Gates, where he co-chairs the firm’s e-Discovery Analysis & Technology (“e-DAT”) Practice Group. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Mr. Cohen has over 20 years experience managing complex commercial litigation, focusing on document-intensive and technology-related issues. He has been admitted to courts directly or pro hac vice in fourteen states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. He obtained a landmark opinion in the Delta Funding case ordering 100% cost-shifting. Mr. Cohen has authored many articles and two book chapters focusing on litigation strategy and e-discovery issues, has served on and chaired several bar association committees related to litigation technology, serves on the Advisory Committee of the Georgetown Law Center e-Discovery Institute, and is a frequent presenter at CLE and in-house training programs nationwide. He originated the “Scenes from an E-Discovery Case” vignettes used to train lawyers, paralegals, judges and mediators. Mr. Cohen counsels numerous Fortune 500 and other companies on records management and e-Discovery issues.

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Eric Schwarz
Leader, Forensic Technology and Discovery Services team (US)
Ernst & Young, LLC

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Melissa L. Klipp
Partner ; Founder, Electronic Discovery and Data Management Task Force
Member of Working Groups 1 and 6 of the Sedona Conference
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

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