Continuing Education Information Sheet

• Understand the role, types, and advantages of special masters
• Apply the rules governing appointment and scope of authority
• Reference the 2019 ABA Guidelines for special masters
• Follow best practices ('5 commandments') for working with special masters

Intended audience: Litigators handling complex federal cases involving discovery, cybersecurity, IP, or other technical matters.

Level: intermediate

Prerequisites: None

• Daniel B. Garrie, Founder, Law & Forensics; Neutral at JAMS; Faculty at Harvard

  Law & Forensics LLC · JAMS · Harvard · Rutgers Law School · Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare

  Daniel B. Garrie is the founder and executive managing partner of Law & Forensics LLC, a boutique cybersecurity and forensic engineering firm he co-founded in 2008. He serves as a neutral, arbitrator, and forensic special master at JAMS, focusing on cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and complex technology disputes, and holds faculty appointments at Harvard and Rutgers Law School. A patented software inventor and prolific author, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare and a widely cited authority on computer forensics, eDiscovery, and cyber litigation.

• Katherine Charonko, Partner and ESI Practice Group Leader, Bailey & Glasser

  Bailey & Glasser

  Katherine (Kate) Charonko is a Partner and ESI Practice Group Leader at Bailey & Glasser, where she helps clients and attorneys apply analytics across eDiscovery, including document review strategy, technology-assisted review, and ESI preservation and collection protocols. She serves on Bailey Glasser multidistrict litigation teams focused on automotive and medical-device product liability and has acted as liaison director of eDiscovery and ESI on several MDL leadership committees. Charonko speaks frequently on ESI, TAR, and legal ethics.

• Leslie Kroeger, Partner, Cohen Milstein

  Cohen Milstein

  Leslie M. Kroeger is a Partner and Co-Chair of Cohen Milstein's Complex Tort Litigation practice, and an accomplished trial lawyer focused on product liability, environmental and toxic tort, consumer class action, and wrongful death litigation. She is a past president of the Council of Presidents for the American Association for Justice and a past president of the Florida Justice Association. Kroeger has been recognized on Lawdragon's leading-lawyers lists and repeatedly by Best Lawyers in America and Florida Super Lawyers.

• Paul Kiesel, Partner, Kiesel Law LLP

  Kiesel Law LLP

  Paul Kiesel is a Partner at Kiesel Law LLP who represents individuals and families in significant personal injury and wrongful death matters, along with municipalities in major litigation. A longtime leader in the California legal community, he served as president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and on the State of California Judicial Council's Civil and Small Claims Advisory Committee. He co-chairs the Open Courts Coalition and has been named a Senior Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America.

Legal Cyber Academy is not an accredited provider; the notes below explain how a learner may self-submitthis activity where their board permits. The pathways shown reflect this course’s subject matter. Always confirm your board’s current rules.

• CLE (attorneys)up to 1.0 hr (60-min basis)

  Many U.S. jurisdictions let an attorney apply for CLE credit for a non-accredited program (often called individual attorney or self-application). Use this certificate plus the course Information Sheet as your supporting documentation. Your state bar or CLE board decides whether credit is granted, how much, and any self-study cap.

• CE / CPD (privacy, insurance, IT)up to 1.0 hr (60-min basis)

  Where your professional body recognizes self-reported or self-directed learning (CPD) — for example many privacy (CIPP/CIPM) and security certifications — record this activity using the certificate and Information Sheet. Confirm your program's self-reporting rules and any documentation it requires.