Michael Quartararo

Mike Quartararo is the President of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), the world's leading professional association for training and certification in e-discovery. ACEDS trains and certifies professionals at law firms, within corporate legal departments, the government and academia. Mike is also managing director of eDPM Advisory Services, a successful e-discovery, information governance and legal technology consulting practice. He is the author of the book Project Management in Electronic Discovery, the only book to merge project management principles and best practices in electronic discovery. Mike is known as one of the top e-discovery professionals in the legal industry. He has been successfully solving client problems using technology for 20 years. He has built his career upon strategic and innovative thinking, leadership and operational skills he honed while working at the best legal organizations in the world. As a former law firm director, manager, project manager, database specialist and paralegal, Mike has decades of experience delivering e-discovery, project management and legal technology solutions to law firms and Fortune 500 corporations across the globe. He has worked in legal technology and litigation support at large law firms, including ten years at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, where he managed large-scale class action securities litigations, e-discovery projects and trial preparation. More recently, as the firm-wide director of litigation support at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, Mike was responsible for the development and implementation of firm policy on e-discovery, information governance and technology support. He oversaw a full-service Litigation Support Department, the development of best practices and project-oriented protocols, and the design and delivery of e-discovery and application-specific training programs. In addition, Mike regularly consulted with attorneys and the firm’s clients on the use of technology, electronic discovery and information governance. As an adjunct graduate professor at Bryan University, Mike co-designed and taught a graduate program on e-discovery project management. He obtained educational licenses for leading e-discovery software and developed an e-discovery project simulation laboratory for students to gain hands-on experience. He also sits on the university advisory board. A graduate of the State University of New York, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in psychology and music, he also studied law for one year at the University of London, Holborn College. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS). Mike frequently writes and speaks on issues related to project management, e-discovery and litigation support.