The Lawyer's Guide: eDiscovery and Ethics

Our Mission is to bridge the knowledge gap between law and technology professionals by educating attorneys on technology to attorneys and technology executives on its laws and regulations. Legal Cyber Academy provides a comprehensive tool and evolving knowledge base through exclusive insights from world class cybersecurity, privacy, web 3.0, forensic, and e-discovery legal and technical practitioners. Earn CLE, CPE, and CE credits. (Refunds are available if you do not receive credit) At Legal Cyber Academy We recognize that technology, the cybersecurity threats it faces, and relevant laws and regulation are rapidly evolving, presenting unique challenges and opportunities. Our platform is dedicated to empowering legal professionals with the skills and understanding necessary to navigate the complex landscape of technology in their field, enabling them to effectively advise clients, draft contracts, and navigate legal implications in a technology-driven world. Simultaneously, we strive to equip technology professionals with the legal knowledge they need to make informed decisions, ensure compliance with regulations, and limit liability. By fostering a deep understanding of legal frameworks, we hope to support technology professionals in creating innovative, compliant, and socially conscious technological advancements. Join us in our mission to reshape the way legal professionals and technology experts understand and interact with each other in a rapidly changing technical and legal landscape. Together, they will mitigate risk better, ensure compliance, and actively shape the future of technology and its accompanying laws.

Danie Garrie, Esq., is the Co-Founder of Law & Forensics LLC, where he heads the Computer Forensics and digital discovery Cybersecurity teams. Daniel has been a dominant voice in the computer forensics and cybersecurity space for the past 20 years, as an attorney and technologist. He is an adjunct professor at Harvard for Computer Forensics, and prior to Law & Forensics, he successfully built and sold several technology start-up companies. Since co-founding Law & Forensics LLC in 2008, Daniel has built it into one of the leading boutique firms specializing in cybersecurity and forensic engineering. He is a mediator, arbitrator, and e-discovery special master for JAMS and is a partner and head of Cybersecurity practice at Zeichner, Ellman & Krause LLP. Daniel earned both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in computer science from Brandeis University, as well as a J.D. from Rutgers Law School. Daniel has led cyber and forensic teams in some of the most visible and sensitive incidents in the United States. He and his team have worked globally for two of the top five banks and dozens of the largest private and public companies in the world. In addition, Daniel has been awarded several patents for advanced cybersecurity and forensic platforms he built with his team, including TableTop.AI, CustodyTrack.IO, and Forensic Scan. Daniel is also well-published in the cybersecurity space and has authored more than 200 articles and books. His work is cited by Black’s Law Dictionary 10th Ed. defining the terms 'software', 'internet', and 'algorithm'. Lastly, he has been recognized by several United States Supreme Court Justices for his legal scholarship and is a trusted source and thought leader for cybersecurity articles and opinions, cited over 500 times to date.

Michael Geibelson is a 15-year partner at the trial law firm Robins Kaplan LLP, three-year member of the firm’s executive board, and managing partner of its California offices. He leads the offices with distinction and brings great enthusiasm and dedication to the position. Geibelson, who joined Robins Kaplan in 1995, has achieved trial and litigation successes for retail, technology, real estate, and food and beverage clients in a wide range of business disputes. An experienced litigator, Geibelson’s trial experience is deep in commercial, class action, real estate, and antitrust matters, and ranges widely from the representation of cattle ranchers in fraud and veterinary malpractice matters, to building owners seeking to remedy welding product defects, to ship owners sued for trespass resulting from the grounding of their vessel, to organizations suing upon violations of the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act.

Mary is an experienced employment and commercial litigator with a track record of success in state and federal courts across a wide range of matters. She defends and advises employers on workplace-related claims, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful discharge. Mary also possesses particular fluency in professional liability matters involving lawyers, doctors, accountants, auditors, and real estate agents. She has successfully secured dismissals of seven-figure malpractice claims at the summary judgment stage. Additionally, Mary provides clients with practical guidance to avoid, prevent, and resolve disputes. When litigation cannot be avoided, she develops strategies that align with her clients' financial goals and minimize costs.

The Honorable Thomas I. Vanaskie, former Judge with the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, is a member of Stevens & Lee’s Litigation Department. He co-chairs the firm’s Appellate Practice Group with Karl S. Myers and chairs the firm’s Mediation, Neutral Services and Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group. Judge Vanaskie was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 2010 where he served with distinction for eight years, participating in and deciding many complex, high profile cases. Before 2010, he served as a district judge for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania for 16 years, including seven years as chief judge. In May of 2021, he was appointed by the President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association to serve as chair of a statewide task force to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the delivery of legal services and to make recommendations to mitigate the disruption of services resulting from future catastrophes. The task force generated a comprehensive report that will serve as the foundation for enhancing the use of technology to assure that legal services will be delivered despite widespread disasters. Judge Vanaskie’s distinguished career as a federal appellate court judge, a federal trial court judge and trial lawyer provides him with an unparalleled ability to assist private parties resolve disputes through mediation. His focus is on helping parties resolve disputes with guidance that is informed, impartial, fair, and objective. Judge Vanaskie combines knowledge of the law, meticulous preparation and a highly practical perspective to engage the parties in seeking creative ways to solve problems and resolve disputes, drawing on his experience in having assisted parties in resolving countless disputes during his tenure on the bench. Over more than four decades of service in the legal profession, Judge Vanaskie litigated or oversaw hundreds of complex cases involving areas as diverse as appellate, business and commercial, class action and mass tort, employment, ERISA, insurance, antitrust, securities, intellectual property, civil rights and personal injury cases. Whatever the nature of the dispute parties seek to mediate, Judge Vanaskie likely has real-world experience with similar cases and issues. As part of Stevens & Lee’s Neutral Services and Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice, Judge Vanaskie is available to serve as a private arbitrator in cases where mediation is not appropriate, but the parties have agreed to arbitrate their disputes. He has been appointed as a special master in complex, high profile litigation, including in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Navient (M.D. Pa.), and in In re Valsartan, a complex multi-district products liability case pending in the District of New Jersey.