Patrick Oot, Esq.
Patrick Oot is an experienced corporate attorney and co-founder of The Electronic Discovery Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to resolving litigation challenges by conducting studies of litigation processes for the benefit of the federal and state judiciary.
Mr. Oot is also known for his former role as Director of Electronic Discovery and Senior Counsel at Verizon in Washington, DC. He has extensive experience in discovery practices involving commercial litigation, regulatory filings, and antitrust matters. Mr. Oot was charged with advising Verizon’s business units on electronic discovery while developing new technologies that increased cost-efficiency. In 2006, Mr. Oot was nominated for the Verizon Excellence Award after playing a key role in the successful completion of Verizon’s response to the Department of Justice’s Second Request for Documents in its acquisition of MCI. As a result of his work, Inside Counsel magazine named Verizon’s e-discovery team as one of the ten most innovative legal groups of 2007, the group’s second year winning the title.
In 2007, Mr. Oot appeared with United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at Georgetown University Law Center’s H5 Summit on Electronic Discovery. Mr. Oot has testified before the United States Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence where he presented his position on Proposed Rule of Evidence 502. The Committee included in its draft to the Judicial Conference language incorporating Mr. Oot’s suggestions.
Mr. Oot is a member of the advisory board for, ALM’s LegalTech, The Georgetown University Law Center’s Advanced Ediscovery Institute, and The Council on Litigation Management. Oot actively participates in The Sedona Conference’s working groups; focusing on best practices in search and retrieval and the effective use of Federal Rule of Evidence 502. He is a member of the International Legal Technology Association, and has co-chaired Martindale-Hubble’s Counsel to Counsel electronic discovery roundtables.
Mr. Oot lectures regularly at educational events and legal conferences internationally, has appeared on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and was interviewed for the August 2008 edition of The Economist.
He received both his B.A. and J.D. from Syracuse University and his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Oot is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts and is also registered corporate counsel in Virginia.
Anne Kershaw, Esq.
Anne Kershaw is an experienced litigator and the founder of A. Kershaw, P.C. // Attorneys & Consultants,
a nationally recognized litigation management consulting firm providing
independent analysis and innovative recommendations for the management
of all aspects of volume litigation challenges.
Ms. Kershaw has been involved with high tech litigation management since 1993, taking management roles on national coordinating and trial counsel teams defending volume, multi-state, product liability claims. Ms. Kershaw consults in complex and individual cases on electronic data discovery strategy and issues and FRCP 30(b)(6) technology and corporate policy depositions. Ms. Kershaw also maintains ongoing involvment in federal and state civil rules reform to address electronic discovery issues and litigation fairness issues, providing litigation survey data and testimony before the Federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee. In addition, Ms. Kershaw is a Faculty Member of Columbia University's Executive Master of Science in Technology Management Program and is also an Advisory Board Member of the Georgetown University Law Center's Advanced E-Discovery Institute. She is also one of the principal drafters of Navigating the Vendor Proposal Process: Best Practices for the Selection of Electronic Discovery Vendors and a contributing editor of The Sedona Conference Glossary For E-Discovery and Digital Information Management (May 2005 Version), both publications of the Sedona Conference® Working Group on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention and Production RFP+ Group ( http://www.thesedonaconference.org).
Ms. Kershaw is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, and Ninth Circuits, United States Supreme Court, and all New York State Courts.
Herbert L. Roitblat, Ph.D
Herb L. Roitblat is a co-founder and principal at OrcaTec LLC. Before starting Orcatec,
Herb was Executive Vice President, Chief Scientist, and co-founder of
DolphinSearch. He is the primary inventor of the core DolphinSearch
technology (patent No. 6,189,002). His duties at DolphinSearch included
new product development, business development, and marketing as well as
internal and external consulting on the processes of eDiscovery and
related information management and data mining issues. Herb led the
design of the DolphinSearch review tools, DIAD, and ComplianSeek, and
was part of the team that brought concept searching and native file
review to the eDiscovery industry. He was also responsible for
Herb is a recognized expert in cognitive science, information management, data mining, statistics, and eDiscovery processes. He is the author of numerous papers on dolphin biosonar and neural network models of the dolphin sensory system. More recently he has been writing about data mining and how technology can ease the burden of eDiscovery. Herb was an award-winning Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii from 1985 until 2002. He taught courses in cognitive science and research methods. He has a B.A. degree from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California-Berkeley. He served as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Columbia University until he joined the faculty at the University of Hawaii. Herb is a Past President of the Division of Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology of the American Psychological Association and Past President of the International Society for Adaptive Behavior. In 2002, he received the Clifford T. Morgan award for distinguished contributions to behavioral neuroscience and comparative psychology. Herb is a member of the Sedona Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production.