Who s Looking At Your Mobile Device? Data Security, Personal Privacy, and Information Governance in the Wireless World Our Speakers Michael Arnold is a Solutions Program Manager with UnitedLex, a legal process solutions provider. Michael has been the Director of Litigation Technology at LeClair Ryan s Discovery Solutions Practice and with United Lex as part of their discovery practice in Richmond, Virginia. He has over 22 years in Information Technology experience and has been providing technical legal solutions for corporate and law-firm clients since 2004. Michael has been involved in all aspects of litigation including forensic collections, complex data analysis and presentation, and has attended more than 8 cases in various capacities in local state and federal court. Michael is now working on developing new technologies and solutions to help clients address the needs of the next e-discovery legal challenges. Craig Ball of Austin is a trial lawyer, computer forensic examiner, law professor, and noted authority on electronic evidence. He limits his practice to serving as a court-appointed special master and consultant in computer forensics and electronic discovery. He has also served as the Special Master or testifying expert in computer forensics and electronic discovery in some of the most challenging and celebrated cases in the United States. A founder of the Georgetown University Law Center e-discovery Training Academy, Craig serves on the Academy's faculty and teaches Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence at the University of Texas School of Law. For nine years, Craig penned the award-winning Ball in Your Court column on electronic discovery for American Lawyer Media and now writes for several national news outlets. For his articles on electronic discovery and computer forensics, please visit www.craigball.com or his blog, www.ballinyourcourt.com.
Monica Bay is a fellow at Stanford Law's CodeX (The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics) and a legal technology and media consultant. She recently retired from ALM. While at ALMshe served as editor-in-chief of Law Technology News for 17 years, was based in New York, and was a senior editor at San Francisco's The Recorder for 13 years. Her New York team has won 50 awards for editorial excellence. A frequent speaker, Bay has been quoted in numerous media, including The New York Times. Long active in cyberspace, she helped The Late Show with David Letterman establish its first website on America Online. A member of the California bar, she lives in New York City and Lakeville, CT, and can often be found at New York Yankees games. Philip Favro brings fifteen years of experience to his position as Senior Discovery Counsel for Recommind, Inc. Phil is a legal scholar and a thought leader on issues relating to the discovery process, the confluence of litigation and technology, and information governance. Phil s expertise has been enhanced by his practice experience as a business litigation attorney in which he advised a variety of clients regarding complex discovery issues. Phil is a member of the Utah and California bars. He is an active member of the American Bar Association, contributes to Working Group 1 of The Sedona Conference, and leads the faculty advisory board for the Coalition of Technology Resources for Lawyers (CTRL). Emily Fedeles is an associate in the Geneva office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, where her practice focuses on the defense of complex litigation in Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East, including class actions, reimbursement lawsuits, consumer protection claims, and individual product liability claims. Emily's role includes working with other outside counsel to coordinate defense strategies and develop supporting evidence. Emily advises clients on litigation prevention strategies and legislative projects that impact or alter civil liability risks - such as proposed legislation on class actions and punitive damages - in Europe, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. As part of that strategic advice, Emily evaluates client e-discovery readiness programs, advises on collection, review, and production considerations, and considers the implications of mobile technologies, client information technology platforms, and related social media use. Emily is an active member of The Sedona Conference Working Group Six. Prior to joining the Geneva office, Emily practiced in the firm's Tampa office representing product manufacturers against personal injury claims in both state and federal courts in the United States.
Dennis Kiker is a consultant with Granite Legal Systems, working with law firms and commercial enterprises to develop efficient, defensible solutions to discovery challenges, from extraction and transformation of structured data from enterprise systems for use in litigation, to developing complete discovery response program. Mr. Kiker also guides companies in the development and execution of information governance strategies, including data remediation and information mapping. Prior to joining Granite Legal Systems, Mr. Kiker worked with corporations to facilitate and improve information management and discovery response capabilities, through the development and enhancement of internal and external business and legal processes, and by facilitating defensible response to demands for information. His extensive experience in the field of e-discovery includes management of discovery response and document review projects for Fortune 1000 companies, including the identification, preservation, collection, and production of information. Melinda McLellan is Counsel in the New York office of BakerHostetler, where she advises clients on complex privacy, cybersecurity, and information management issues as a member of the firm s national Privacy and Data Protection team. Melinda regularly counsels companies across multiple industry sectors on a broad range of privacy and security matters, including by advising on how to respond to data security incidents and related regulatory inquiries, creating and implementing internal privacy and security policies and employee training programs, and working with marketing teams to develop innovative and compliant new media campaigns. Melinda is a 2005 graduate of Harvard Law School where she served as Executive Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. New York Super Lawyers has selected Melinda as a Rising Star for the past three years in a row. Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., is the President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc., a digital forensics, information security and information technology firm in Fairfax, Virginia. Ms. Nelson is the author of the noted electronic evidence blog, Ride the Lightning and is a co-host of the Legal Talk Network podcast series called The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology as well as Digital Detectives. She is a frequent author (eleven books published by the ABA and hundreds of articles) and speaker on legal technology, information security, and electronic evidence topics. She was the President of the Virginia State Bar June 2013 June 2014 and currently serves as the President of the Fairfax Law Foundation. She may be reached at snelson@senseient.com
Antigone Peyton is the founder and CEO of Cloudigy Law, an Intellectual Property and technology law firm in McLean, VA. Before Cloudigy, she managed the electronic litigation group at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, in Washington, DC. Antigone is an unabashed technophile focused on IP litigation and cutting-edge legal issues involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. A longstanding member of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 (electronic document retention and production), Antigone is a frequent speaker and lecturer on law and technology issues involving IP, social media, cloud computing, big data, and e-discovery and a technology panelist for EmeraldPlanetTV. She is currently piloting a STEMpreneur program that pairs middle school students with professors, engineers, entrepreneurs, and technology lawyers to develop innovations and train the next generation of scientists and tech business leaders. Antigone has been recognized among the Virginia Legal Elite for her work involving Intellectual Property and was honored with an Influential Women of Virginia award in 2014 for outstanding efforts in law and her community contributions. You can follow Antigone on Twitter @antigonepeyton, or connect with her on LinkedIn. James Sherer is Counsel in the New York office of BakerHostetler, where he co-chairs the Information Governance practice team. His work focuses on litigation; discovery management processes; records and information management governance; data privacy, security, and bank secrecy; technology integration issues; and related merger & acquisition diligence. Prior to joining BakerHostetler, James worked as in-house litigator with a Fortune 500 company and previously practiced litigation in New York. He holds CIPP/US and CIPM credentials, is a member of The Sedona Conference Working Groups One and Six, and writes and presents on e-discovery, information governance, privacy, and merger & acquisition issues.
John W. Simek is the Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc., an information technology, digital forensics, and information security firm located in Fairfax, VA. Mr. Simek has a national reputation as a digital forensics technologist and has testified as an expert witness throughout the United States. He holds a degree in engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy and an MBA in finance from Saint Joseph s University. Mr. Simek holds the prestigious Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE) certifications. He currently provides information technology support to over 220 area law firms, legal entities, and corporations. He is a co-host of the Legal Talk Network podcast Digital Detectives. He is a frequent author (twelve books published by the ABA and hundreds of articles) and speaker on legal technology, information security, and electronic evidence topics. He may be reached at jsimek@senseient.com. Timothy J. Toohey is a United States Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US), a European Union Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/EU), and a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM). His practice concentrates on privacy and data protection matters, as well as intellectual property and technology litigation. Tim has handled a variety of privacy and data protection matters, including advice and litigation regarding federal and state laws. Tim has also dealt with international privacy and security issues, including compliance with European Union data protection and privacy directives and the proposed EU data protection regulation. Tim s experience includes trial and arbitration of trademark, design patent and copyright infringement matters, as well as licensing and trade secret disputes. He has been involved in several high profile anti-counterfeiting and infringement cases for consumer products and intellectual property matters involving the entertainment industry. In his spare time, Tim enjoys exploring new technologies as well as more analog pursuits, such as gardening, architecture, and classical music. He has lectured at UCLA as an adjunct in the History Department teaching courses on U.S. constitutional and legal history and has been a guest lecturer in courses on the protectability of cinematic characters, including James Bond, under U.S. copyright law. Tim has spoken and written widely on privacy, data security, technology, and intellectual property matters. He is the author of Understanding Privacy and Data Protection: What You Need to Know, a comprehensive book published by Thomson Reuters in February 2014 that addresses the trends impacting data privacy and security in the age of online behavioral advertising and social networks. To provide leading information and updates on important changes in the cyber, privacy, and data security arena, Tim is also the editor of the Cyber, Privacy and Data Security website http://www.privacydatasecurity.com.