Judge Iain D. Johnston
United States District Judge
Northern District of Illinois, Western Division

Iain D. Johnston is a District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, Western Division. He handles dispositive matters for civil and all felony criminal matters in the Division. From 2013 through 2020, he was the U.S. Magistrate Judge for the same court, where he handled all pretrial matters for all civil and all criminal cases. He graduated with honors from both The John Marshall Law School (1990) and Rockford College (1987). Following law school, he clerked for Judge Philip G. Reinhard in both the Illinois Appellate Court and U.S. District Court. After his clerkship, he joined the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, where he was a unit supervisor. He then entered private practice, during which time he was a partner at Altheimer & Gray and a senior counsel at Holland + Knight. On April 1, 2008, with Andrew Greene, he co-founded Johnston Greene LLC, where he litigated nearly anything a client would pay him to litigate. He has published dozens of articles, which have been relied on as authority by courts across the country. He misses Tom Petty every day. Iain has surfed Jaws, Mavericks, and Nazaré. Okay, that last sentence is false but the rest is true.

Mandi Ross
CEO and Managing Director
Insight Optix

Mandi Ross is the CEO and Managing Director of Insight Optix, the company which developed a patented, SAAS-based software called Evidence Optix®, a powerful eDiscovery scoping, proportionality, and data source tracking workflow. Evidence Optix allows legal teams to dramatically decrease spend while creating a repeatable, defensible process for discovery. The “Discovery Proportionality Model: A New Framework,” was originally inspired and derived from the Evidence Optix workflow.

Mandi is also founder and CEO of Prism Litigation Technology, an eDiscovery advisory firm started in 1997. During her 32-year career, she has managed a multitude of successful engagements for corporate legal teams and outside counsel, as well as working as a court-appointed eDiscovery expert. She has also served as a strategic advisor for some of the largest, most complex lawsuits and investigations in the last three decades and is a nationally recognized speaker on eDiscovery-related topics, providing varying levels of continuing education to the legal community.

Martin Tully
Partner
Redgrave LLP

Martin Tully is partner with the Chicago office of Redgrave LLP. He is a veteran trial lawyer with over 30 years of national experience representing companies and individuals in complex commercial litigation concerning a broad array of fields and industries. Empowered by his commercial litigation practice, Martin is nationally recognized for his knowledge and experience in the fields of electronic discovery, information governance, and data security/data privacy. Martin advances thought-leadership in data law as the Chair of the Steering Committee of the Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1), as an active member of the Sedona Conference Working Group on Data Security and Privacy Liability (WG11), the 7th Circuit Council on eDiscovery and Digital Information, the ABA Section of Litigation, Privacy and Data Security Committee, and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), as well as a director at-large of the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Professionals (ACEDS). In addition, Martin has published and presented extensively on the topics of eDiscovery, information governance, cybersecurity, data privacy, and legal technology; is among a select group of lawyers in the world ranked for Litigation: E-Discovery & Information Governance byChambers USA: America’s Leading LawyersandChambers & Partners Global; and he has been acknowledged byWho’s Who Legalas being “steps ahead of his competitors” and “widely regarded for his ‘superior knowledge’ of electronic discovery and information governance."

Rich Robinson
Director, Legal Operations and Litigation Support
Toyota

Rich Robinson began his legal-technology career in 1999 in the IT department for a large law firm in Boston, Massachusetts. He has served in numerous roles in IT and Litigation Support in large and medium-sized firms in Boston, Providence, Austin and Dallas. He has worked in the eDiscovery vendor space and spent seven years as the eDiscovery and Information Manager for JCPenney prior to joining Toyota as their Director of Legal Operations and Litigation Support. Rich is a founding board member of the bDiscovery, ACEDS DFW, and the CLOC EAC, and speaks regularly at eDiscovery and Legal Ops conferences around the country.

Doug Austin
Editor
eDiscovery Today

Doug is the Editor of eDiscovery Today and is an established eDiscovery thought leader with over 30 years of experience providing eDiscovery best practices, legal technology consulting and technical project management services to numerous clients. Doug has published a daily blog since 2010 and has written numerous articles and white papers. He has received the JD Supra Readers Choice Award as the Top eDiscovery Author for 2017 and 2018 and as a Top Cybersecurity Author for 2019.