David Shonka, Esq., Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission

Due to audience demand at LegalTech, EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon announces a repeat performance by “David Shonka, Esq., of the Federal Trade Commission Talks eDiscovery.”  Reserve your seat today for this limited attendance event!

Wednesday, February 17th 2010 at 10:00 am PST


“Dave’s work for over three decades has played a leading role in making the Office of General Counsel one of the best law offices in the federal government,” Chairman Kovacic said. “His service to this agency is unsurpassed. The Commission is most fortunate to enlist someone of such outstanding accomplishment and judgment to serve as Acting General Counsel.”

David C. Shonka is the Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission and he heads the FTC’s E-Discovery Steering Committee.  Before becoming the Principal Deputy, he served as the Assistant General Counsel for Litigation at the FTC from 1993.  Before joining the FTC, Mr. Shonka was an associate in a Washington D.C. law firm and a litigator in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice.  In his career at the FTC, Mr. Shonka has tried and argued competition and consumer protection cases in the federal district courts; tried cases in administrative proceedings, represented the Commission in numerous appellate cases; and contributed to the government’s briefs in several Supreme Court cases.  He has spoken at numerous E-Discovery conferences, and has been an instructor in deposition, trial, and motion practice courses.  Besides having been an active litigator, Mr. Shonka has advised the Commission on the entire range of legal and policy issues that have come before the Commission; and he has represented the Commission in several international programs.