INVITED SPEAKERS

Pretrial Technology: Litigation Analysis

Prof. Fred Galves
University of the Pacific, USA

Mr. John Tredennick
Caseshare, USA

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Biographies of the Invited Speakers

Professor Fred Galves is one of the nation's leading academic authorities on litigation technology and the use of computer-generated exhibits in the courtroom. Professor Galves teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence and Computer-Assisted Litigation. He was a teaching fellow at Harvard University, an adjunct professor at Colorado College, and has taught law at U.C. Davis, Fordham University, Denver University and Southwestern University. He is currently a full time professor at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. Before teaching, Professor Galves was a litigation associate at Holland & Hart, handling litigation matters. He earned his J.D. from Harvard University and BA from Colorado College.

John Tredennick is the Chief Executive Officer of Catalyst Repository Systems. He began his career as a trial lawyer and partner with Holland & Hart, the largest law firm in the Rocky Mountains. In 1995 he also became the firm's Chief Information Officer (CIO), the first in the country for a major law firm. Mr. Tredennick's passion for finding ways to use technology to improve law practice led the firm to international prominence as a technology leader. In 1995, he created an internal division at the firm, offering litigation services and trial consulting. Not long after, Mr. Tredennick's team began developing client extranets to help manage complex litigation. Soon, the firm had scores of litigation extranets in operation. In 2000 he founded Catalyst, a spin-off providing secure collaboration repositories for the case, deal and document management.
Mr. Tredennick continues to be active in the American Bar Association, holding positions as Chair of the ABA's Law Practice Management Section and Editor of Law Practice Management Magazine. Over the past two decades, he has written 4 books and hundreds of articles on legal technology issues including the ABA bestselling Winning With Computers series in the early 1990s. Recently, he founded and now edits Law Technology Today, a widely read ABA Webzine, continuing his focus on legal technology and management issues at www.lawtechnologytoday.org.

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