Jason R. Baron, Esq.

Jason R. Baron, Esq. serves as Of Counsel at Drinker Biddle Reath LLP, in their Information Governance and eDiscovery Group, in Washington DC. He is Co-Chair of the Information Governance Initiative, is currently Chair-elect of the DC Bar Litigation Section E-Discovery Committee, and serves on the Adjunct Faculty of the University of Maryland. His 34 years of public service included serving as a trial lawyer and senior counsel at the US Department of Justice, and as the first Director of Litigation at the US National Archives and Records Administration.  An internationally recognized speaker and writer on the subject of electronic records, Mr. Baron has been recognized by The American Lawyer magazine as a “trailblazer” in e-discovery, in its August 2013 issue of “The Top 50 Big Law Innovators of the Past 50 Years.”  He was the 2013 recipient of the Federal Bar Association’s Justice Tom C. Clark Outstanding Government Lawyer award.