Ken is the Executive Director of The Sedona Conference and a member of its Board of Directors. Since 1989, he has published several widely distributed papers on electronic discovery and given presentations at more than 500 conferences and workshops for judicial, legal, information governance, and industry audiences. An Internet pioneer, Ken hosted a popular website on electronic discovery and electronic records management in the 1990’s, co-authored The Internet Guide for Massachusetts Lawyers in 1997, and received the 1999 Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award from the British Irish Legal Education Technology Association for his postgraduate essay on the then-emerging field of eDiscovery. From 1999 through 2005, Ken was a Senior Education Attorney at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington D.C., where he developed training programs for the federal judiciary concentrating on issues of technology and the administration of justice. He also contributed to several well-known FJC publications, including Effective Use of Courtroom Technology (2001), the Civil Litigation Management Manual (2001), and the Manual for Complex Litigation, Fourth Edition (2004).
Ken joined the staff of The Sedona Conference in 2006 and continued publishing scholarly articles, including Ephemeral Data and the Duty to Preserve Discoverable Electronically Stored Information in the University of Baltimore Law Review (2008); Living Daily with Weekley Homes in the Texas State Bar Advocate (2010); and Risk Aversion, Risk Management, and the Overpreservation Problem in Electronic Discovery in the South Carolina Law Review (2013). Ken received his J.D. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in 1984 and his M.S. in library and information science from Simmons University in 1998.
