Ralph C LoseyRalph C. Losey is a Principal of Jackson Lewis, P.C., a labor and employment law firm in the United States with over 800 attorneys. He is the firm's National e-Discovery Counsel in charge of electronic discovery services and training. Mr. Losey also eads up the firm's Litigation Support Department, which, under his leadership, the firm outsourced to a major vendor. Mr. Losey personally performs the predictive coding work in multiple document review projects each year and supervises and consults in many others, including in the Da Silva Moore case, where predictive coding was first approved by a court. Mr. Losey has also competed in, and won, a document review contest and research project supervised by a major university. He was able to classify 1.7 million documents, on his own, in 64.5 hours. In 2015, and again in 2016, Mr. Losey led a research team at the NIST Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), where he participated in the Total Recall Track to demonstrate his hybrid multimodal method of predictive coding. His published reports for the TREC Total Recall Tracks can be found at one of Mr. Losey's educational websites, MrEDR.com. Mr. Losey has concentrated in electronic evidence and discovery since 2006, at which time he started and ran the e-discovery department at Akerman Senterfitt. In 2010 he joined Jackson Lewis. Prior to 2006 Mr. Losey handled a variety of commercial litigation, insurance, and technology cases, including one of the largest Qui Tam cases in history. Mr. Losey has been a computer hobbyist since 1978, and ethical hacker since the 1980s, at which time he created several original game and music software programs for his children. He also established and operated his law firm's IT department from the early 1980s to early 1990s. In 2015 Mr. Losey was a finalist for the LegalTech CIO of the Year Innovation Award. In 2016 he was included in Best Lawyers in America in three fields: Electronic Discovery and Information Management Law, Information Technology Law, and Commercial Litigation. He was also one of the 33 lawyers in the United States included in the 2016 Who's Who in Litigation, Electronic Discovery. Mr. Losey has written over two million words on law and technology subjects since 2006, including over 60 articles on predictive coding. In 2006 he started his well-known blog, e-DiscoveryTeam.com, which later grew to include over a dozen legal education websites. His writings include six books on e-discovery published by the ABA, McMillian, and West-Thompson, including a new book by the ABA releaseded in late 2016, e-Discovery for Everyone. He has also published four law review articles: Predictive Coding and the Proportionality Doctrine, 26 Regent U. Law Review 1 (2013-14); HASH: The New Bates Stamp, 12 Journal of Technology Law & Policy 1 (June 2007); Mancia v. Mayflower Begins a Pilgrimage to the New World of Cooperation, 10 Sedona Conf. J. 377 (2009 Supp.); and Lawyers Behaving Badly, 60 Mercer L. Rev. 983 (Spring 2009). Mr. Losey served as an adjunct professor at the University of Florida School of Law from 2007 to 2011 where he taught both introductory and advanced e-discovery courses. He developed the law school's first online course, which he later spun-off into a private instructional program, e-DiscoveryTeamTraining.com. Mr. Losey has lectured at many CLE events and conferences around the world since 2006 with a focus over the last several years on predictive coding and overall best practices. Mr. Losey received his BA from Vanderbilt University in 1973 and his JD with honors from the University of Florida School of Law in 1979. Read More Read Less