"How 'Safe' is Your 'Harbor'? Planning for the FRCP Rule 37(e)" - Expert Presenters

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Tom Allman
Attorney and Consultant

Tom Allman is co-chair of the Lawyers for Civil Justice e-Discovery Committee and was an early advocate of a "safe harbor" Federal eDiscovery Rule amendment. He also co-chairs the Sedona Conference Working Group on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention and Production of the Sedona Conference and was one of the editors of the Sedona Principles (2nd Ed. 2007). He served as senior vice president and general counsel of BASF Corporation from 1993 until 2004 and was counsel to Mayer Brown from 2005 to 2007.   See Thomas Y. Allman, The Need for Federal Standards for Electronic Discovery , 68 DEF. COUNS. J. 206, 209 (2001) and “Rule 37(f) Meets Its Critics: The Justification for a Limited Safe Harbor for ESI,” 5 Nw. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 1 (2006).  

Bill Tolson
Director of Legal and Regulatory Solutions Marketing, Mimosa Systems, Inc.

Bill Tolson has more than 17 years of experience in storage and archiving solutions product marketing and consulting. As director of legal and regulatory solutions marketing at Mimosa Systems, Bill is responsible for the strategy and implementation of Mimosa's legal and regulatory archiving solutions. Bill has helped companies develop and execute global email archiving solutions and electronic document retention strategies, and he has been a featured speaker at several archiving events, including the Government Technology Conferences, ARMA, and the TechTarget Email Archiving Series. He spent several years as a principal consultant and practice manager leading the eDiscovery and compliance consulting business for Contoural, specializing in storage solutions and email archiving, enterprise content management, and information life-cycle management. Previously, Bill held management positions at Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, StorageTek, and Iomega. Bill has a Bachelor of Science degree in business management from California State University at Dominguez Hills.