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Panelists

Hon. Timothy S. Hillman
U.S. Magistrate Judge
District of Massachusetts
Judge Timothy Hillman is a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Massachusetts. He was appointed in 2006. Prior to his appointment as a magistrate judge, he was a judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court from 1998-2006. From 1991 to 1998, he was an Associate Justice and Presiding Justice in the Gardner District Court and the Presiding Justice in the Worcester District Court. He was in private practice from 1974 to 1998. During that time he served in the Worcester County District Attorney's Office, and as town counsel and city solicitor for several Massachusetts communities. Judge Hillman is a 1973 graduate of Suffolk University Law School. He received his bachelor's degree from Coe College in 1970. Judge Hillman has taught law & psychiatry at the Massachusetts School of Law and trial advocacy at Clark University. From 2002 to 2004, Judge Hillman was the Project Executive for Massachusetts Trial Court's Information Technology Project and was responsible for the procurement and implementation of a statewide integrated case management and docketing system for all levels of the Massachusetts trial court system.

Dawn M. Curry
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
Dawn is a litigator at Nutter McClennen & Fish, and is the Chair of Nutter's Data Management & Discovery group. As part of her practice, Dawn represents clients in the defense of matters brought by the federal and state governments in the areas of criminal and civil healthcare and securities fraud. She also represents clients in product liability, intellectual property, consumer fraud, business tort and other civil litigation. Dawn has experience managing large-scale document collections, reviews and productions, and advising clients on drafting and implementing comprehensive document retention policies.

Daniel K. Gelb
Gelb & Gelb LLP
Dan Gelb is an attorney with Gelb & Gelb LLP in Boston, Massachusetts where he represents clients in federal and state court litigation, arbitration and regulatory proceedings. Dan concentrates in the areas of business, securities, non-competition agreements, corporate raiding and trade secrets, accountants' liability and criminal law. Prior to joining Gelb & Gelb LLP, Dan was an Assistant District Attorney with the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office in Massachusetts. Dan chairs the Massachusetts Bar Association Civil Litigation Section's E-Discovery Practice Group, he is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' E-Discovery Task Force, and The Sedona Conference's Working Group on Electronic Document Retention & Production. He is also an Advisory Board Member of BNA, Inc.'s White Collar Crime Report.

Woods K. Abbott
Raytheon Company
Woods is Senior Manager of Legal Operations for Raytheon Company and is responsible for all the technologies that are utilized by the Raytheon Office of the General Counsel (OGC), including the department's own array of SQL and web servers, Blackberry network, and the numerous web sites under the OGC control. Woods also oversees all of the Company's discovery and legal hold operations. He is a member of the Raytheon's Records Management oversight committee and is trained as a Six Sigma Expert, serving as both the Six Sigma and Knowledge Management Champion for the OGC. Woods is a member of The Sedona Conference® Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1).

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Addressing Eletronic Discovery, with 2006 Committee Notes