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LIVE CLE Webcast: E-Discovery Cost Savings for Attorneys
Chris Paskach
Practice Leader, Forensic Technology Services
KPMG LLP
Chris Paskach is the national leader for KPMG's two-hundred-member Forensic Technology Services practice. He coordinates the full range of KPMG's eDiscovery services from Records and Information Management, Digital Evidence Recovery, and Evidence and Discovery Management services including processing and hosted review repository services provided from KPMG’s Cypress Technology Center (CTEC) in California.
Mr. Paskach is an active member of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 and has been a contributing member of two drafting committees including the Commentary on Achieving Quality in the eDiscovery Process released in May 2009, and the current draft paper on discovery of Structured Data. He is also a member of the EDRM Advisory Council. He regularly consults with in-house and outside counsel on electronic discovery management issues related to investigations, litigation and commercial disputes. He has more than 30 years experience in data analysis and information planning and systems design and management. His experience includes expert testimony and depositions in federal and state courts.
Adam I. Cohen
Senior Managing Director - Technology
FTI Consulting
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, including, for example, proactive litigation readiness and regulatory compliance, complying with electronic preservation obligations and avoiding spoliation sanctions, crafting and responding to discovery requests targeting electronic information, and cost containment strategies.
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.
Scott A. Carlson
Chair, National eDiscovery Practice Group
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Mr. Carlson founded and co-chairs Seyfarth Shaw’s eDiscovery practice and is nationally known in the area of eDiscovery. His practice is almost entirely devoted to eDiscovery and high technology issues from both the consulting and litigation perspective. Mr. Carlson teaches a Masters of Law course on the subjects of eDiscovery, digital evidence, and computer forensics.
Mr. Carlson’s strong technical background includes a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics and experience working in private industry as a software engineer. He has represented clients in the myriad issues related to eDiscovery and high technology matters including electronic document preservation, production, spoliation, and computer forensics. Mr. Carlson represents and provides eDiscovery advice to a broad range of clients from small and mid-sized companies up to the nation’s largest companies.
Also an experienced litigator, Mr. Carlson has represented clients in a wide range of commercial disputes including commercial contracts, purchase agreements, lease agreements, Uniform Commercial Code transactions, misappropriation of trade secrets, software licensing agreements shareholder suits, and tortious interference claims. He has also defended clients in actions involving negligence, wrongful death, fraud, retaliatory discharge, mass tort, and a variety of class actions.
Mr. Carlson is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt. Using Lean Six Sigma and project management methodologies, our SeyfarthLean approach delivers increased value to our clients at a time of increased market pressures and competitive demands. Seyfarth’s commitment to delivering legal services in a new way—with an emphasis on value and continuous improvement—has been praised by the Association of Corporate Counsel as being "five years ahead of every other AmLaw 200 firm."
Jason Lichter
Litigation Associate
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Jason Lichter is a senior associate in the Litigation Department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges and is a member of the Complex Commercial and Intellectual Property & Media practice groups. In 2009, Mr. Lichter was named a “Future Star” by Benchmark Litigation: The Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys and received the New York State Bar Association’s 2008 Empire State Counsel Award.
As a founding member of the firm’s Electronic Discovery Task Force, Mr. Lichter has advised clients on all major issues spanning the e-discovery lifecycle, including document preservation and retention policies, document collection best practices, vendor selection and management, efficient approaches to document review, backup tape rotation strategies, cost shifting, and the implications of cloud computing. In addition, Mr. Lichter has been responsible for structuring and overseeing several large-scale document reviews, managing teams of junior associates, staff/contract attorneys, and offshore attorneys using both in-house and third-party document review platforms.
More generally, Mr. Lichter has represented clients on a wide variety of copyright, trademark, and commercial disputes in state and federal courts and in a broad array of industries, including media, finance, insurance, maritime, hospitality, real estate, telecommunications, and construction. Mr. Lichter has also achieved very favorable results for several pro bono clients of the firm, including a complete plaintiff’s verdict and $750,000 damages award on behalf of a former inmate after a week-long federal excessive-use-of-force trial, a favorable settlement for a film editor seeking unpaid wages and editing credit on a Sundance award-winning documentary, and the recovery of a domain name from a cybersquatter on behalf of Save the Children.
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