I presently serve as Director of Litigation at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, a position I have held since May 2000. I serve on the Steering Committee of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 on Electronic Document Retention and Production, with past service as Co-Chair of WG1 between 2009 and 2011. I also serve on the Adjunct Faculty of the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies, where I co-teach a graduate level seminar on e-discovery. As part of The Sedona Conference, I have served as Editor in Chief of The Sedona Conference Best Practices Commentary on the Use of Search and Information Retrieval Practices in E-Discovery (2007), Co-Editor in Chief of The Sedona Conference Commentary on Achieving Quality in the E-Discovery Process (2009), and Editor in Chief of The Sedona Conference Commentary on Finding the Hidden ROI in Information Assets (2011). I was a founding coordinator of the TREC Legal Track, an international research project evaluating search and retrieval methods used in ediscovery sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and served as coordinator of the Track between 2006 and 2009. I also helped found the international “DESI Workshop” series, a unique forum for academics and lawyers to discuss issues of mutual interest involving e-discovery, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence. I serve on various advisory boards, including as part of the Georgetown Law Center Advanced E-Discovery Institute. I frequently write and speak in the U.S. and internationally on subjects involving preservation of and access to electronic records, including public records. See my full CV (309K PDF) for additional details.
My current email address: jason.baron@nara.gov.
