Tom is a retired General Counsel who currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of BASF Corporation prior to retirement and was an early advocate of rulemaking unique to electronic discovery, including the former and current Rule 37(e). He is chair Emeritus of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1) and closely follows e-discovery developments in state and federal courts.