Spotlight on Early Case Assessment & AI: How to Champion Your Firm's Audio and Video Files

Chuck Kellner

Principal - eDiscoveryStrategy.com

Chuck Kellner is an eDiscovery strategist with a record of success helping clients give and get the discovery they need with fairness and proportionality. His goals for his clients are to achieve complete and defensible discovery using best practices and leveraging technologies appropriate to budget and task. Chuck’s experience on both sides of the caption includes eDiscovery strategy, ESI interview and identification; negotiation of scope; ESI protocols; consulting and testimony in support of discovery motions; litigation readiness policy and workflow; ediscovery team training and CLE; and cost and pricing for industry services and technologies.

Chuck’s experience includes Litigation and Practice Support Manager for an AmLaw 50; litigation support operations director for a Big Eight; and consultant and executive for eDiscovery consuilting, services, and business development for legal industry leaders. He has testified as expert on issues of cost and burden, appropriate uses of technology, adequacy of production, and on findings from computer forensic examination. He holds a BA from Brandeis University and JD from Lewis & Clark Law School. Among several organizations he is active as an executive board member of the New England Legal Technology Professionals (NELTP) and the The Sedona Conference Working Group 6, where he is part of a writing team for Principles for Disclosure in International Arbitration.

Tom O'Connor

Director - Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center

Tom O’Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the field ofcomputerized litigation support systems. Tom’s consulting experience is with both small firms and complex litigation matters including the BP litigation in New Orleans and several current opioid MDL matters. He has also been appointed as a technical consultant by various federal and state courts on cases dealing with large amounts of electronic evidence and specializes in negotiating ESI exchange protocols.

A frequent lecturer about legal technology, Tom teaches CLE courses nationwide and is also a prolific writer. He was a co-author of the 2006 award winning article, “In Katrina’s Wake”, which covered recovery efforts in the legal community of post Katrina New Orleans, in which he participated. He was also the author of the Second, Third and Fourth Editions of The Automated Law Firm: A Guide to Computer Systems and Software published by Aspen Law & Business as well as The Lawyers Guide to Summation as well as EDiscovery for Small Cases, both published by the ABA.

Gina Trimarco

Senior Attorney - DLA Piper

Gina Trimarco is a litigator who represents a wide array of clients in a variety of complex litigation involving financial services, health care, consumer fraud act, insurance, contract claims and employment matters. Gina also counsels clients about all aspects of information governance, from e-discovery and records management to data privacy. She has more than 10 years of experience with project management and has served as national coordinating discovery counsel. Gina leverages this experience to provide advice on policy, process and technology to reduce cost and risk. She is a member of The Sedona Conference® Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production and a drafting team leader on The Sedona Conference Commentary on Legal Holds, Second Edition: The Trigger & The Process.

Chris Ricciuti

Vice President of Product Management for Legal & Compliance
Veritone

Chris has more than 15 years of eDiscovery and Financial Services industry expertise and is well versed in applying technology to legal and regulatory compliance matters. Currently, he is Vice President of Product Management for Legal & Compliance at Veritone. Prior, he served as co-founder and CEO of Panalytics, a provider of regulatory compliance software for Financial Services firms. Earlier in his career, he was the Head of Technology for a boutique investment bank. Chris holds an MBA from Babson College.