Timothy Michael Opsitnick

TCDI

Tim is Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Technology Concepts & Design, Inc. (TCDI). His consulting practice focuses on electronic discovery, cybersecurity, data privacy, and computer forensics. Tim has conducted numerous continuing legal education seminars, written articles, and contributed to publications regarding electronic discovery, cybersecurity, and other technology issues. In addition, he has served as a court-appointed Special Master and as an expert witness. Tim is a past member of the Steering Committee for The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 on Electronic Document Retention and Production, and he is also a member of Sedona Working Groups 6 and 11. He also serves on The Sedona Conference Working Group Series Leadership Council. Tim was an editor of The Sedona Guidelines: Best Practice Guidelines & Commentary for Managing Information & Records in the Electronic Age (Second Edition 2007), a contributor to The Sedona Principles: Best Practice Recommendations and Principles Addressing Electronic Document Production (2004 and Second Edition 2007), a member of the drafting team for The Sedona Principles, Third Edition: Best Practices, Recommendations & Principles for Addressing Electronic Document Production (2017), a WG1 Steering Committee Liaison and Editors-in-Chief, The Sedona Conference Commentary on Legal Holds, Second Edition: The Trigger & The Process (2019), and a WG1 Steering Committee Liaison, The Sedona Conference, Commentary on the Need for Guidance and Uniformity in Filing ESI and Records Under Seal, (2022). Tim is also a member of The Sedona Conference Technology Resource Panel. Tim is a past member of the Advisory Board for Georgetown University Law Center’s Continuing Legal Education for the development of programs for its E-Discovery Institute, and a member of the Advisory Council for EDRM, and a member of the Advisory Council for George Washington Law School, James F. Humphreys Complex Litigation Center.