Continuing Education Information Sheet

• Understand the role of mediation in resolving eDiscovery disputes
• Weigh the advantages and disadvantages of eDiscovery mediation
• Prepare effectively for an eDiscovery mediation
• Decide when to resolve eDiscovery disputes through mediation

Intended audience: Attorneys advising clients in disputes that require costly eDiscovery.

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.

• Dan Nichols, Attorney, JurisLaw LLP

  JurisLaw LLP

  Daniel J. Nichols is a litigator and trial lawyer at JurisLaw LLP, where he leads the firm's eDiscovery practice. He serves as discovery counsel in class actions brought by consumers, including customers of large corporations and victims of Ponzi schemes, alongside a mold injury and class action litigation practice, and is a former partner of the eDiscovery firm Redgrave LLP. He has taught civil discovery at Lewis & Clark Law School for nine years, previously chaired Oregon's Uniform Civil Jury Instruction committee, and serves on the Oregon Advisory Committee on Civil Justice. He earned his J.D. magna cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on artificial intelligence in eDiscovery and on mediating to reduce e-discovery costs.

• Hon. Peggy A. Leen, Mediator, Arbitrator, Special Master, JAMS (Ret.)

  JAMS

  Hon. Peggy A. Leen (Ret.) is a mediator, arbitrator, referee/special master, neutral evaluator, and hearing officer with JAMS. She previously served more than 18 years as a United States Magistrate Judge in the District of Nevada, where she conducted more than 900 settlement conferences and early neutral evaluations and, before the bench, litigated complex multi-party civil and criminal cases as a trial lawyer for over 20 years. She is known as an effective, thoroughly prepared settlement judge who is evaluative, candid, and focused on realistic resolutions, and she speaks on using mediation to reduce e-discovery costs.

• David Cohen, Partner, Reed Smith LLP

  Reed Smith LLP

  David Cohen is a Partner at Reed Smith LLP, where he chairs the firm's Records & E-Discovery Group, and he has more than 30 years of commercial litigation experience. He serves as special e-discovery counsel in complex matters and has been appointed an E-Discovery Special Master by three different federal judges in the Western District of Pennsylvania, in addition to helping establish that district's EDSM program. He designs and presents e-discovery training for judges and neutrals nationwide and speaks on e-discovery, technology, and litigation tactics.

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

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