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CHRISTOPHER G. EMCH is a partner at Foster Pepper PLLC, the co-chair of its Commercial Litigation Group, and chair of its Electronically Stored Information Squad. He also is a current co-chair of the Website and Communications Committee of the Federal Bar Association for the Western District of Washington. His practice focuses on business law, health care, corporate governance, and education. Mr. Emch has extensive experience with class actions, complex commercial litigation, and high-stakes financial disputes, including shareholder derivative actions, securities litigation, consumer protection actions, contract disputes, fiduciary litigation, merger and acquisition disputes, director and officer litigation, SEC and FINRA matters, and related regulatory proceedings and investigations. He also has additional experience prosecuting claims as a Special Assistant Attorney General. Mr. Emch regularly works with hospitals and health care providers on a wide range of matters, including disputes and issues involving contracts, billing and reimbursement, medical staffing, facility construction, quality assurance, risk management, information management, patient records and data security. He also regularly represents hospitals and other health care providers at all levels of the certificate of need process and in the judicial review of planning decisions. He was a member of the trial team representing the Network for Excellence in Washington Schools and the McCleary and Venema families in a constitutional challenge to Washington State's chronic underfunding of K-12 education. After a two-month trial, the trial court entered judgment against the State, which was affirmed by the Washington State Supreme Court on January 5, 2012, McCleary v. State, 173 Wn.2d 477, 269 P.3d 227 (2012). Mr. Emch graduated from Dartmouth College with high honors, and from the University of Michigan Law School, cum laude. PAIGE HUNT WOJCIK is director of e-discovery services with Perkins Coie LLP, where she provides consultative support to attorneys and clients relating to information and records management, litigation readiness, electronic discovery, and legal technology solutions. She has worked with legal teams, in-house counsel, corporate IT personnel and service providers to manage the electronic discovery component of litigation matters across many industries for more than 11 years. Ms. Hunt Wojcik is actively involved in a number of electronic discovery related organizations and a frequent speaker on electronic discovery issues. She typically assists legal teams with development with electronic discovery issues and strategies, including effective legal hold implementation and management; the identification, preservation and collection of electronic data; negotiations regarding scope of discovery and cost shifting; vendor evaluation and selection; budget development and monitoring; development of electronic discovery stipulations; and management of teams engaged in review and production of electronically stored data. In addition to e-discovery consultation, Ms. Hunt Wojcik manages the firm's practice technology services department which consults with the firm's legal teams and their clients on the strategic application of technology to legal matters to increase efficiencies and control costs. She leads the Document Review Centers, which provides staff attorneys for document review and discovery related tasks at reduced rates. Ms. Hunt Wojcik also directs the litigation paralegal training program. Her professional leadership includes: ARMA International; Clearwell (Product Development Team advisor); Electronic Discovery Reference Model; Epiq E-Discovery Strategic Advisory Board; ILTA (Litigation and Practice Support Steering Committee); RiverGlass Advisory Board; and Women in E-Discovery (meetings director, Seattle chapter). MICHAEL KAISER is president of the Kaiser Legal Group and founder of Seattle Legal Research, a company focusing primarily on discovery and legal research services. Seattle Legal Research has researched and briefed for, among others, the legal team representing, in federal court, arguably the greatest basketball player in history. He also was recently brought in to conduct research for an expected upcoming series of cases almost certainly destined to be the most ambitious and potentially far-reaching animal-law litigation to date. Mr. Kaiser also has reported on legal affairs for local radio and has been a law school guest speaker on the subject of how different court systems address those suffering from mental illness. In addition, he has worked with local judges and members of the King County Bar Association's Judiciary and the Courts Committee, to draft new rules for King County Superior Court. He also has served on the King County Bar Association's Judicial Evaluation Committee. Mr. Kaiser earned his B.A. degree from the University of Washington in Seattle and his J.D. degree from Seattle University. DAVID J. LENCI is a partner in the Seattle office of K&L Gates LLP. He is an experienced litigator who has represented clients, from both the public sector and the private sector, in complex civil litigation and appeals for more than 30 years in state and federal court. Mr. Lenci's practice emphasizes business litigation, including intellectual property, unfair competition, and other business torts and securities litigation. He was a federal prosecutor with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice for more than five years and served three years as the chief civil litigator for the Snohomish County Prosecutor's Office. Mr. Lenci has served as a mediator, an arbitrator and pro tem judge. He also has volunteered as a fee dispute arbitrator with the Washington State Bar Association. Mr. Lenci earned his B.A. degree from Dartmouth College and his J.D. degree, with high honors, from the University of Washington School of Law. DAVID P. STENHOUSE is the president of DS Forensics, Inc. He brings almost 13 years electronic discovery and computer forensics experience in civil litigation, and federal law enforcement computer crimes investigation. Prior to founding DS Forensics, Inc., Mr. Stenhouse provided consulting and expert witness services to law firms and corporate clients with Navigant Consulting and Computer Forensics, Inc., a pioneer in the computer forensics and electronic discovery industry. He is a forensic examiner and has performed hundreds of forensic examinations on multiple types of hardware and operating systems in criminal cases and civil litigation. Mr. Stenhouse routinely provides expert guidance and training to attorneys and corporate clients faced with the task of electronic discovery. He has acted as a neutral expert in numerous cases and served as a special advisor to the court, providing assistance in the understanding of technical concepts. Mr. Stenhouse is a former special agent in the U.S. Secret Service. From 1998 to 2000, he was assigned to the Electronic Crimes Special Agent Program (ECSAP), where he conducted investigations involving the use of electronic data in crimes. Prior to his employment with the U.S. Secret Service, Mr. Stenhouse served as a state trooper with the Washington State Patrol.
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