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James D. Shook, Esq., CIPP Director, E-Discovery and Compliance Legal Team EMC Corporation East Coast

James D. Shook, Esq. is a recognized authority on legal discovery and compliance issues related to electronic information. In his role as the director of EMC’s eDiscovery and Compliance Legal Team, Jim works with EMC’s customers to help them solve challenges with eDiscovery, compliance, and privacy.  

James is a long-time member of The Sedona Conference, a well-known legal think tank, and is active contributor on several committees. He has served as an editor on the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), and publishes and speaks regularly at conferences on technology’s impact on legal issues, including the publication of “Don’t Be An eDiscovery Ostrich” in late 2009.

Recently, James has focused on some of the emerging issues in this field. In 2008, he was part of a small group that developed a Sedona Conference Commentary on “ESI Evidence and Admissibility,” and served as a co-host of the national webinar presenting their publication. His article on the legal impact of collaboration technologies, “A Tangled e-Discovery Web (2.0),” was published in the December 2008 edition of BNA’s Digital Discovery and E-Evidence, and he was a guest on the ESI Bytes podcast of “Electronic Discovery Issues in Web2.0/3.0 and Social Media”.  

Prior to joining EMC, Mr. Shook spent over ten years practicing law as a litigator in one of Phoenix’s oldest law firms and as the general counsel to two technology companies.