Moderator: Ronald J. Hedges, Ronald J. Hedges LLC
Ron Hedges is a special master, arbitrator, and mediator working with e-discovery and privilege issues. He served as a United States Magistrate Judge in the District of New Jersey from 1986 to 2007. He is a member of The Sedona Conference^® Advisory Board and a member of the Advisory Board of the Advanced E-Discovery Institute of Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches e-discovery and e-evidence. He also teaches at Rutgers School of Law—Newark. Mr. Hedges is author of, among other publications, Discovery of Electronically Stored Information: Surveying the Legal Landscape (BNA: 2007) and a co-author of Managing Discovery of Electronic Information: A Pocket Guide for Judges (Federal Judicial Center: 2007). He serves on the Advisory Board for The Sedona Conference^®.

Thomas Y. Allman
Tom Allman is an attorney residing in Cincinnati, Ohio and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Prior to retirement as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of BASF Corporation, he was an early advocate of what became the 2006 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. He is Chair Emeritus of The Sedona Conference^® Working Group on Electronic Production and Retention (“WG 1”), having contributed to and edited a number of key Sedona publications. Mr. Allman also serves as one of the editors of the PLI Electronic Discovery Deskbook and was a Member of the E-Discovery Panel at the 2010 Duke Litigation Conference that recommended additional rulemaking on the topic of preservation and spoliation rulemaking. He has published widely on the topic of technologically neutral eDiscovery rulemaking in Federal and State courts, including “E-Discovery in Federal and State Courts after the 2006 Federal Amendments,” which is also available in full text on Bloomberg BNA’s eDiscovery Resource Center.

Kenneth J. Withers, The Sedona Conference^®
Ken Withers is the Deputy Executive Director for The Sedona Conference^®, an Arizona-based non-profit law and policy think tank which has been on the forefront of issues involving complex litigation, intellectual property, and antitrust law. Since 1989, he has published several widely-distributed papers on electronic discovery, hosted a popular website on electronic discovery and electronic records management issues, and given presentations at more than 300 conferences and workshops for legal, records management, and industry audiences. Mr. Withers’ most recent publications are "Ephemeral Data and the Duty to Preserve Discoverable Electronically Stored Information," 37 U. Balt. L. R. 349 (2008) and "Living Daily with Weekley Homes," Texas State Bar Advocate, Vol. 51 (Summer 2010), 23. From 1999 through 2005, he was a Senior Education Attorney at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington D.C., where he developed Internet-based distance learning programs for the federal judiciary concentrating on issues of technology and the administration of justice. Mr. Withers contributed to several well-known FJC publications, including the Manual for Complex Litigation, Fourth Edition (2004), Effective Use of Courtroom Technology (2001), and the Civil Litigation Management Manual (2001).