Moderator:

Robert D. Owen / Sutherland Asbill & Brennan
Robert D. Owen a partner in the New York office of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, is a member of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. He has more than 35 years of experience in commercial litigation. A nationally recognized adviser to financial services, energy and technology companies, Bob is known for creative and efficient dispute resolution. He has handled hundreds of cases before federal and state courts and arbitration panels throughout the United States. For more than 20 years, Bob led the commercial litigation boutique firm of Owen & Davis PC, which he co-founded. The 12-lawyer firm represented Fortune 500 clients in their complex litigation matters in New York and around the country. Bob is widely recognized for his leadership in e-discovery, having been an early adopter of litigation support technology at Owen & Davis and then a founder of the E-Discovery and Information Management Practice at another national law firm. Currently, he is a member of the editorial advisory board of Law Technology News, a participant in the Managing Information and Records in the Electronic Age working group of The Sedona Conference, and is listed by Chambers Global and Chambers USA (Band 1) in the e-discovery field.

Speakers:

Amor Esteban / Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
Amor Esteban has 27 years experience in complex litigation with particular emphasis in electronic discovery and data management. Amor has collaborated with clients in the development of policies and guidelines concerning a wide spectrum of data usage including record retention, preservation, collection, processing, production and search and retrieval. He has negotiated a number of cloud computing agreements and aided clients with cloud computing deployment. Amor is a nationally recognized expert in data privacy and international cross-border discovery. He has been recognized for exceptional standing in the legal community in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for 2011 (Band 1) and 2010 (Band 2). He is a member of the American Bar Association, where he served as Co-Chair of the Product Liability Committee for the Section of Litigation, on the ABA's Task Force on Electronic Discovery and as liaison to the Sedona Conference® Working Group 1 on Electronic Discovery. He is a Member of the Board of The Sedona Conference® and serves as a Steering Committee Member and Chief-in-Editor for The Sedona Conference® Working Group 6 on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure. He serves as an Advisory Board Member for the Bureau of National Affairs’ “Class Actions Reporter.” He graduated from the University Of Detroit School Of Law, J.D. 1984, cum laude, and from Michigan State University with a B.A. in 1981.

Jerone J. English / Litigation Management Group
Jerone English is Director of eDiscovery and the Litigation Management Group. In this capacity, he is responsible for Intel's ediscovery policies, processes and procedures. He also manages a department of legal and technology professionals that supports Intel's litigation teams. Previously, Jerone was a partner in the Los Angeles office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP where he had over 25 years’ experience managing and litigating complex commercial disputes, primarily in the areas of antitrust and trade regulation, products liability and commercial contracts. While at Pillsbury, he also co-chaired the firm’s national eDiscovery Task Force and its eDiscovery Specialty Team.

David Kessler / Fulbright & Jaworski LLP

David Kessler joined the New York office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. in 2010 and is co-head of the Firm's E Discovery and Information Governance Practice. As a partner, David works with Fulbright's litigation group and focuses on e-discovery, information management, data privacy and intellectual property litigation. Previously, David was a partner at a large firm and one of the founding members of the firms' E-Discovery and Data Management Task Force. David has represented companies in all areas of electronic discovery and information management. David focuses not only on tactical e-discovery issues in particular cases, but advises clients regarding strategic e-discovery portfolio management and data governance. For example, David has helped clients with emergency ex parte preservations orders; negotiations with opposing counsel regarding disaster recovery data; establishing that opponents had fabricated e-mails; and developed record management functions and litigation readiness protocols. Additionally, David litigates all aspects of intellectual property with an emphasis on patent cases. His work in this area includes representation of both plaintiffs and defendants in numerous patent lawsuits involving disparate technologies such as adipose stem cells, implantable cardio defibrillators, dimming amplifier, self-opening plastic bags, cotter pins and CAD software. He has also represented plaintiffs and defendants in copyright litigation, primarily involving software.

Heather Bryden / Capital One

Heather Bryden is a director of eDiscovery and assistant general counsel at Capital One.