Discovery Proportionality Benefit-Burden Model Participant Biographies

United States Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

April 2009-Present.

Michael Baylson is a federal judge serving on senior status for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He joined the court in 2002 after being nominated by President George W. Bush. He assumed senior status on July 13, 2012.

Kevin Behan is a senior director and experienced legal operations professional with a demonstrated history of working in the health insurance industry. He is skilled in Law Department management, including financial and technology management, Legal Discovery, and eDiscovery Consulting.

Stacey Blaustein is counsel at IBM specializing in eDiscovery, data privacy, information governance, third-party subpoena practice, and records retention.

United States Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. May 2003 -Present.

Kevin Brady has extensive experience providing advice and counsel on electronic discovery, electronic information management, data privacy, and data security issues. He 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. 

United States Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. August 2014 - Present.

Howard M. Bushman is a partner at The Moskowitz Law Firm, whose practice includes multi-state consumer class action litigation, mass tort litigation, insurance litigation, employment matters, and complex commercial litigation.

A skilled litigator known for placing major emphasis on serving as a valuable resource to clients, Howard has successfully prosecuted many multi-plaintiff, mass tort, and class action lawsuits across the country.

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. Nominated by George W. Bush on March 13, 2003, confirmed by the Senate on July 8, 2003, and received commission on July 15, 2003. Assumed senior status on July 31, 2018.

Faced with the legal, strategic, and operational challenges of information governance, clients rely on Jay Carle for proactive counseling and response engagements in the areas of eDiscovery litigation, data retention and management, privacy matters, data security, internal investigations, and regulatory response. Mr. Carle combines hands-on technical skill, and business and litigation experience to craft innovative, practical solutions that balance the competing business demands, realities, and legal risks of creating, maintaining, and using information. A litigation partner at the Chicago office, he also serves as deputy chair of the eDiscovery & Information Governance practice group.

Scott Carvo is an eDiscovery expert whose practice focuses on general litigation matters and includes restrictive covenant, employment, and tax litigation along with expertise in eDiscovery. Specifically, Mr. Carvo has represented businesses of various types in obtaining or opposing injunctive relief. He is experienced in several aspects of dispute resolution, including claim and settlement negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and civil litigation. His eDiscovery experience includes overseeing and participating in several large-scale reviews utilizing several different systems including Concordance, Summation, Vestigate, and Relativity, along with motion practice regarding eDiscovery issues. Mr. Carvo is co-chair of the firm's Data Analytics + eDiscovery Practice Group.

Professor Edward H. Cooper joined the University of Michigan Law School faculty in 1972 and was named the Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law in 1988. He assumed emeritus status in 2017. He is co-author with the late C.A. Wright and A.R. Miller of the original, second, and third editions of Federal Practice and Procedure: Jurisdiction, a leading multi-volume treatise on federal jurisdiction and procedure, and his articles have contributed to legal scholarship for more than 40 years. From 1991 to 1992, Professor Cooper served as a member of the U.S. Judicial Conference Civil Rules Advisory Committee. He has served as reporter for the committee since 1992.

Professor Steven S. Gensler is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Edwards Family Chair in Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. From 2005 to 2011, Professor Gensler served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. He currently serves as the lead consultant to the U.S. Judicial Conference's Federal-State Jurisdiction Committee.

Paul W. Grimm serves as a Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. He was appointed to the Court on December 10, 2012. Previously, he was appointed to the Court as a Magistrate Judge in February 1997 and served as Chief Magistrate Judge from 2006 through 2012. In September 2009 he was appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

William Hamilton is an electronic discovery expert. Prior to joining the faculty served as the electronic discovery partner for his national law firm. Mr. Hamilton has taught electronic discovery at the University of Florida for the past decade and is the co-author of the LexisNexis Practice Guide Florida e-Discovery and Evidence and co-author of A Student Electronic Discovery Primer: An Essential Companion for Civil Procedure Courses. Mr. Hamilton is also the General Editor of the LexisNexis Practice Guide: Florida Contract Litigation. Mr. Hamilton is also a neutral arbitrator and mediator for the World Intellectual Property Organization and the author of numerous domain name dispute decisions. Mr. Hamilton has been recognized in Chambers USA, Florida Legal Elite, Best Lawyers in America, and Florida Super Lawyers.

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Nominated by Barack Obama on January 7, 2015, to a seat vacated by Nancy Friedman Atlas. Confirmed by the Senate on April 20, 2015, and received commission on April 22, 2015.

Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Ronald J. Hedges, is a senior counsel with Dentons US LLP. He served as a United States Magistrate Judge in the District of New Jersey from 1986 to 2007. Mr. Hedges is a frequent writer and speaker on various topics related to, among other things, electronic information and is the lead author of Managing Discovery of Electronic Information: A Pocket Guide for Judges, Third Edition (Federal Judicial Center: 2017). He is also the co-Senior Editor of The Sedona Conference Cooperation Proclamation: Resources for the Judiciary, Third Edition.

William H. J. Hubbard holds a JD and PhD (Economics) from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, he clerked for the Hon. Patrick E. Higginbotham of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced law as a litigation associate at Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago, where he specialized in commercial litigation, electronic discovery, and appellate practice. He teaches and writes on civil procedure, courts, and law and economics, and is an editor of the Journal of Legal Studies.

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Nominated by Donald J. Trump on February 12, 2020, to a seat vacated by Frederick J. Kapala. Confirmed by the Senate on September 17, 2020 and received commission on September 23, 2020.

Judge Gary Jones was appointed a United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Florida on September 10, 2010, after having served as a United States Magistrate Judge in the Middle District of Florida from 2000-2010. Judge Jones currently also serves as a magistrate judge in the District of Columbia through an inter-circuit assignment. Judge Jones received a BA in 1975 from Boston University, a JD in 1981 from the University of Miami School of Law, and a LLMM degree in International Law from New York University School of Law in 1983, graduating first in his class. 

Since his appointment to the bench in 2000, Judge Jones has served on more than 15 court committees in the Middle and Northern Districts of Florida and was the first magistrate judge to be appointed to the Financial Disclosure Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, where Judge Jones served with distinction for six years. Judge Jones currently serves on the Magistrate Judge Advisory Committee of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. He also serves on the advisory council for the EDRM. For the last eight years, Judge Jones has served on the faculty steering committee and has been a panelist on various eDiscovery topics at the University of Florida Levin College of Law annual eDiscovery conference.

Over thirty years of litigation and arbitration experience, including international ICC arbitration proceedings. Member of the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee. Executive Committee on Lawyers for Civil Justice. Participates in the Sedona Conference Working Group One on Electronic Discovery. Expert in records management issues and electronic discovery.

Kraig Marton leads the 21 lawyer litigation section of his law firm where he works in the fields of employment law, First Amendment law, and health care. In his employment practice, Mr. Marton primarily represents employees. He has litigated numerous employment cases, from discrimination to wrongful discharge, sexual harassment, whistleblowing, and wage and hour claims. He is responsible for many noteworthy employment decisions and he sees himself as a protector of the "little guy." 

Andrew J. McGuinness, Esq., is a complex commercial litigation boutique firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with a national practice for both domestic and international clientele. Working with experienced, top-level litigators and other lawyers and experts in flexible teams tailored to each case and client need, Mr. McGuinness offers substantial trial and case management experience in the areas of antitrust, contracts, securities, consumer, product liability, patent, executive compensation, control contest, dealer terminations, multi-district litigation, and other disputes. He brings his two decades of big-firm experience to clients ranging from multinational corporations to smaller businesses and individuals at a compelling value proposition.

Professor Rick Marcus holds the Coil Chair in Litigation at UC Hastings, where he has taught since 1988. Since 1996, he has served as Associate Reporter for the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, focusing on discovery rules and class action reforms. He is also the author of the discovery volumes of the Federal Practice & Procedure treatise (aka Wright & Miller), and of leading law school casebooks on Complex Litigation and Civil Procedure. In addition, he serves as Vice President of the International Association of Procedural Law.

United States Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.  

Alan B. Morrison is the Lerner Family Associate Dean for Public Interest & Public Service at GW Law. He is responsible for creating pro bono opportunities for students, bringing a wide range of public interest programs to the law school, encouraging students to seek positions in the non-profit and government sectors, and assisting students to find ways to fund their legal education to make it possible for them to pursue careers outside of traditional law firms. 

Adam M. Moskowitz, the Founder and Managing Partner of The Moskowitz Law Firm is a distinguished trial lawyer who has received national recognition for his courtroom successes, large settlement negotiations, and delivering justice to class action plaintiffs throughout the country. Mr. Moskowitz concentrates his practice now mainly on solely class action matters and obtained one of the largest jury trial verdicts in Miami-Dade County Court.  As Managing Partner, he leads The Moskowitz Law Firm's participation in multi-state and national class cases that involve teams of law firms from around the nation. 

United States Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  

Mike Quartararo is the President of the Association of Certified eDiscovery Specialists (ACEDS), the leading professional association for training and certification in e-discovery and professional development for corporate legal departments, law firms, and the broader legal community. Mr. Quarararo is also a consultant in eDiscovery, project management, and information governance, and the author of the 2016 book Project Management in Electronic Discovery. He has been teaching, consulting, and solving problems in information governance, e-discovery, project management, and legal technology for over two decades. 
 

Herb Roitblat, is currently Principal Data Scientist, for Mimecast where he works on data analysis and visualization, information retrieval, machine learning, and computer security. Before joining Mimecast, Dr. Roitblat was the Principal Data Scientist for Archiving and eDiscovery for Proofpoint, after their acquisition of OrcaTec. Dr. Roitblat was a co-Founder of OrcaTec LLC (CA). Before starting OrcaTec, He was Chief Scientist co-Founder of DolphinSearch, as well as an award-winning Professor of Psychology and English as a Second Language at the University of Hawaii. He has been awarded five patents in machine learning and related information processes. Dr. Roitblat is widely recognized as an expert in machine learning with more than 50 publications. He was the core inventor of the DolphinSearch neural network software. He is also the core inventor and designer of the OrcaTec Document Decisioning Suite.

John Rosenthal is a partner at Winston & Strawn. He represents clients in an array of complex antitrust and litigation matters. His practice also involves counseling clients on a variety of trade regulation, trademark, and commercial issues. Chambers USA highlights his abilities as a “very strong litigator,” lauded for his “mastery of material,” whose “depth of intelligence about the market is unparalleled.” He also acts as national e-discovery counsel for numerous corporations.

Dan Rizzolo is a Managing Director with ePercept, where he focuses his practice on matters related to digital evidence. He advises clients on complex eDiscovery, computer forensics, data analysis, and expert testimony matters. He has over 30 years of experience consulting or acting as counsel on matters ranging from smaller commercial disputes to large-scale, global litigation and investigations. Mr. Rizzolo has testified as an expert and a fact witness in Federal and state court litigation. He is also an Adjunct Professor, teaching eDiscovery law at the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law.

Michael Shortnacy is a partner at King & Spalding. He focuses his practice on defense of high-stakes consumer class actions and regulatory enforcement actions relating to consumer protection statutes. He litigates before state and federal courts in matters involving claims of unfair competition, false and deceptive advertising, and other violations of consumer protection laws.

Thomas Staunton is an experienced commercial litigator who represents clients in a wide range of matters, including health care disputes, antitrust defense, disputes relating to partnership and corporate governance, and legal malpractice defense. He was an original member of the Seventh Circuit’s Electronic Discovery Pilot Program Committee.

Recognized as a National Law Journal “Elite Boutique Trailblazer” for his work in contingency fee business litigation, Patrick Stueve has prosecuted claims in federal and state courts nationwide against some of the largest companies in the world, including Merck, Formula 1 Racing, ITW, Citigroup, UnitedHealthcare and AIG.

Senior Counsel, Litigation at 3M

Seema Tendolkar is a litigator with over fifteen years of experience representing clients in complex commercial and employment disputes. She represents public and private companies, small businesses, and high-net-worth individuals in matters pending in state and federal court and arbitration, as well as during government and internal investigations. Ms. Tendolkar regularly obtains favorable settlements, dismissals, and outcomes for her clients.

United States Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.  February 2006 - Present. 

After serving on the University of Chicago Law Review, Professor Roger Trangsrud clerked for Justice Walter Rogosheske of the Minnesota Supreme Court and practiced law with the DC firm of Hogan & Hartson. In 1982, he joined the faculty of the law school, where he has taught civil procedure, federal jurisdiction, remedies, and complex litigation. His writings are primarily in the fields of complex litigation and jurisdiction. Recently, he co-wrote a new casebook, Complex Litigation and the Adversary System, and a treatise on Complex Litigation: Problems in Advanced Civil Procedure.

Andrew Trask focuses his practice on class action and complex litigation in various industries, including the automotive industry and financial services. Regarded as an authority in class action litigation, Mr. Trask has experience in class actions involving product liability, consumer fraud, civil RICO, telecommunications products, insurance, business litigation and contracts, banking, securities, ERISA, antitrust and environmental claims. He also has defended mass tort cases involving financial regulations, as well as government investigations and data breach matters. 

Martin T. Tully is a founding partner of Actuate Law, LLC in Chicago. He is a veteran trial lawyer with over 25 years of national experience representing companies and individuals in complex commercial litigation concerning a broad array of fields and industries.

Multinational clients turn to trial attorney Michael Zogby to litigate and manage risk related to aggregated proceedings and product liability and mass tort claims. Mr. Zogby is an advocate for clients in the life sciences industry, and he also counsels clients in commercial and consumer disputes, class actions, intellectual property and antitrust challenges, and trade secret violations. He serves as the deputy group leader in the firm’s nationally ranked product liability & mass torts practice, and is past chair of the firm-wide pharmaceutical and life sciences practice. He received national ranking in the 2020 Chambers and Partners for Products Liability & Mass Tort, USA Nationwide, which states: "His attention to detail is great, and he's well respected by peers and the court," and "He is outstanding, and has a great skill set."