CLE Webinar | Considerations for Using Special Masters in eDiscovery

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Hon. Maria A. Audero U.S. District Court, Central District of California

Hon. Maria A. Audero was appointed as a U.S. Magistrate Judge in 2018. Prior to her appointment, Judge Audero was an employment law litigation partner at Paul Hastings LLP and co-chair of the firm’s Los Angeles Employment Law Department. During her practice at Paul Hastings, Judge Audero served as Judge Pro Tem for the Los Angeles Superior Court and was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown as Commissioner of the California Fair Political Practices Commission. Judge Audero was co-chair of the American Bar Association's Section of Labor and Employment Law Committee on Federal Labor Standards Legislation – Family and Medical Leave Act and was Editor-in-Chief of the annual Mid-Winter Report. She also sat as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Employment Round Table of Southern California. Judge Audero is a former member and advisor of the Executive Committee of the California Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Section. Judge Audero received her undergraduate degree from U.C.L.A. and her J.D. degree from Southwestern University School of Law, serving as Associate Editor of its law review and graduating magna cum laude.

	Hon. Thomas I. Vanaskie (Ret.) Of Counsel, Stevens & Lee

Judge Vanaskie served for over 8 years as a Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Prior to that, he served more than 16 years as a District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, during which time he also served as the District’s Chief Judge for a seven-year term. While on the bench, Judge Vanaskie served on the Information Technology Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, where he was appointed Chair by the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist in 2005. He also was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States, serving as Chair of the Conference of the District Judge Representatives to the Judicial Conference in 2005. Judge Vanaskie was a member of the Third Circuit Judicial Council and served on its Information Technology, Reentry Courts, Space and Facilities, and Library Committees. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Judges Association and he has also served on several working groups of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, including as one of the founding members of the working group that established the federal courts’ Online System for Clerkship Applications and Review (“OSCAR”). Judge Vanaskie also served on the Electronic Public Access working group, as co-chair of the Chambers Functional Requirements Group for the Next Generation of CM/ECF, and as co-chair of the Appellate Judges Education Committee. He received his Juris Doctor Degree, cum laude, from the Dickinson School of Law, after which he served as a law clerk to then Chief Judge William J. Nealon of the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Thereafter, Judge Vanaskie practiced law first with the firm of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman, and then with Elliott, Vanaskie & Riley, where he was a principal member. He has lectured extensively at judicial and continuing legal education programs, and is an adjunct professor of law at the Dickinson School of Law at Penn State University, teaching a course on Electronic Evidence. He is a member of Working Groups 1 and 11 of the Sedona Conference. On January 2, 2019, Judge Vanaskie retired from the Court of Appeals. He has joined JAMS, providing alternative dispute resolution and Special Master services, and he also presently serves in a consulting capacity to Agnes Intelligence, whose mission is to develop ethical artificial intelligence solutions to the problems posed by the exponential growth and proliferation of data.

Kevin F. Brady Senior Counsel, eDiscovery & RIM, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.

Kevin Brady has extensive experience providing advice and counsel on electronic discovery, electronic information management, data privacy, and data security issues. Kevin also advised companies on records retention and information governance programs, compliance with eDiscovery demands, and the development and implementation of policies and procedures related to the deployment of technology solutions. In addition to having served as an expert witness and Special Discovery Master on issues related to electronic discovery, Kevin lectures and publishes extensively in the areas of eDiscovery, records management, data privacy, data security, attorney competence, and legal ethics. Kevin received a J.D. from Widener University School of Law (magna cum laude), an M.B.A. from Widener University, and a B.A. from the University of Delaware. Kevin serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1). Kevin is also Co-Chair Emeritus of the Georgetown University Law Center’s Advisory Board for the Advanced E-Discovery Institute and former Co-Chair of the Delaware Supreme Court’s Commission on Law and Technology. He is a founding member and Past President of the Richard K. Herrmann Technology Inn of Court in Wilmington, Delaware.

Phil Favro Consultant, Driven, Inc.

Philip Favro is a Chambers-ranked lawyer who serves as a trusted advisor to organizations and law firms on issues relating to electronic discovery and information governance. Phil serves as a special master and an expert witness on cases involving electronic discovery issues. He also provides clients with guidance on data preservation practices, litigation holds, data collection strategies, and ESI search methodologies. Phil additionally offers direction on records retention policies, litigation hold policies, and the need to manage dynamic sources of information found on messaging applications and workplace collaboration tools.

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