The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 Midyear Meeting 2025

Date:

Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 8:30am to Friday, April 25, 2025 - 1:00pm

Location:
The Royal Sonesta
35 South 7th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402

The 2025 Midyear Meeting of the Sedona Conference Working Group 1 on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1) will be Thursday, April 24, and Friday, April 25, at the Royal Sonesta in downtown Minneapolis. A welcome reception will precede the meeting on April 23, beginning at 5:30 p.m.

The meeting will provide members with an opportunity to review and dialogue on several ongoing Working Group 1 drafting teams and brainstorming group efforts. Full sessions will be devoted to:

Recommendations from the Brainstorming Group on the Effectiveness of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(f) Conferences
An initial draft Primer from the Government Privileges Drafting Team

Updates will also be provided on four other working drafts: Managing, Modifying, and Lifting Legal Holds; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Discovery; The Sufficiency of Rule 26(a)(1) Initial Disclosures; and Discovery Sanctions.

The agenda also includes a couple of WG1 staples:

Voices from the Bench (our judicial roundtable)
ESI Case Law review, which, due to popular demand, will again be the subject of dialogue in two separate sessions -- one on each day of the meeting.

Rounding out the agenda are sessions on:

The Evolving Roles of AI Tech and Humans in Discovery;
Professionalism and Civility in High-Stakes Litigation; and
The Ethical Duty of Competence in a Complex eDiscovery World.

Hotel Reservation Information:

We have obtained a very favorable group room rate at the Royal Sonesta of $179 per night (plus tax) for a limited block of rooms on the evenings of April 23-24. The group rate will be available for three days preceding and three days following the dates of the room block, subject to standard guestroom availability. The hotel is holding this limited block of rooms until April 1, after which any unsold rooms will be released for sale to the general public and subject to availability. Reservation information will be provided in your meeting registration confirmation email.

To attend the meeting or participate in any of The Sedona Conference’s Working Group Series (WGS) activities, you must be a WGS member. For details on membership, please click here.

CLE

The Sedona Conference will seek CLE accreditation for this meeting in selected jurisdictions, as dictated by attendance.

Dialogue Leaders

Hon. Maria A. Audero U.S. District Court, Central District of California Los Angeles, CA, USA	Rebekah Bailey Nichols Kaster, PLLP Minneapolis, MN, USA	Lea Bays Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP San Diego, CA, USA	Kaleigh Boyd Tousley Brain Stephens Seattle, WA, USA
Angel Bradford Allstate Insurance Company Masfield, TX, USA	Travis Bustamante Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Charlotte, NC, USA	Suzanne Clark Beasley Allen Montgomery, AL, USA	Hon. Joy Flowers Conti U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Traer Cundiff Littler Mendelson, P.C. Kansas City, MO, USA	Hon. John Francis Docherty US District Court, District of Minnesota St. Paul, Minnesota, USA	Tara S. Emory Covington & Burling LLP Chantilly, VA, USA	Phil Favro Innovative Driven Alpine, UT, USA
Nathaniel Giddings Hausfeld Washington, DC, USA	Hon. Allison Goddard U.S. District Court, Southern District of California San Diego, CA, USA	Ruth Hauswirth Cooley LLP San Diego, CA, USA	Hon. Marcia Henry Eastern District of New York New York, NY, USA
Shauna Itri Seeger Weiss LLP Philadelphia, PA, USA	Emily B. Jennings Paul Hastings New York, NY, USA	Hon. Iain D. Johnston U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois Rockford, IL, USA	Robert D. Keeling III Redgrave LLP Washington, DC, USA
Alex Khoury Smith, Gambrell & Russell Atlanta, GA, USA	Dennis R. Kiker DLA Piper Reston, VA, USA	Daniel W. Lim U.S. Dept of Justice Washington, DC, USA	Kelly McNabb Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP New York, NY, USA
Paul H. McVoy Repario Data Milford, CT, USA	Glenn J. Melcher Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Washington, DC, USA	Jason Moore Winston & Strawn LLP Washington, DC, USA	Claudia T. Morgan Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz New York, NY, USA
Michelle Newcomer Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP Radnor, PA, USA	Tony Petruzzi Tucker Ellis LLP Cleveland, OH, USA	Dr. Jeremy Pickens Elevate Delhi, NY, USA	Benjamin Piep Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft Wolfsburg, Germany
Meghan A. Podolny Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Richmond, VA, USA	Kyle Pozan Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP Minneapolis, MN, USA	Gerard Quinn Arnold & Porter Washington, DC, USA	Hon. Bruce E. Reinhart U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Pearl Robertson Irpino Avin Hawkins New Orleans, LA, USA	Maria Salacuse EEOC Washington, DC, USA	Prof. Karen Sanner Saint Louis University School of Law St. Louis, MO, USA	Kenneth J. Withers The Sedona Conference Phoenix, AZ, USA
Hon. Elizabeth C. Wright U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota St. Paul, MN, USA	Deric Yoakley Walmart Fayetteville, AR, USA