Jason R. Baron has served since the year 2000 as Director of Litigation for the National Archives and Records Administration, and is an internationally recognized speaker and author on the preservation of electronic records. Between 1988 and 1999, Mr Baron served as trial attorney and senior counsel at the Department of Justice, defending the government’s interests in complex federal court litigation, including in cases involving the preservation of White House email. currently represents NARA on the Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Records Retention and Production, where he is member of the Steering Committee and Editor-in-Chief of the Sedona Best Practices Commentary on the Use of Search and Information Retrieval Methods in E-Discovery, available at www.thesedonaconference.org. He also is a founding co-coordinator of the National Institute of Standards and Technology TREC legal track (see http://trec-legal.umiacs.umd.edu), a multi-year international information retrieval project devoted to evaluating search issues in a legal context. Mr. Baron has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia, where he taught cyberspace law, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland’s Graduate College of Information Studies. He also presently serves on the Georgetown University Law Center Advanced E-Discovery Institute Advisory Board and the FOSE Program Board. Among his numerous awards for public service, Mr. Baron was recently named a recipient of the 2008 Fed 100 Award, sponsored by Federal Computer Week, for his e-discovery related advocacy. Mr. Baron received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Wesleyan University, and his J.D. from the Boston University School of Law.