Jason Baron (131F)
Jason R. Baron Director of Litigation Office of the General Counsel US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) College Park, Maryland, USA. email: jason.baron-at-nara.gov (131G)
Jason Baron has served since the year 2000 as Director of Litigation for the National Archives and Records Administration, and is a frequent lecturer and author on the subject of e-recordkeeping and e-discovery. Between 1988 and 1999, Mr. Baron held successive positions as trial attorney and senior counsel in the Civil Division of the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C., where he represented the interests of the U.S. government in a variety of complex lawsuits including involving access to governmental information, including the White House email case, Armstrong v. Executive Office of the President. Among his publications, he has authored "Toward A Federal Benchmarking Standard For Evaluating Information Retrieval Products Used In E-Discovery," published in the 2005 Sedona Conference Journal (available on Westlaw and Lexis), and is the co-author of an article in the Spring 2007 issue of the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology entitled "Information Inflation: Can The Legal System Adapt?" (available online). He currently represents NARA on the Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Records Retention and Production, where he co-chairs a special project team on Search and Retrieval Sciences. He also is a co-coordinator of the National Institute of Standards and Technology TREC (Text Retrieval Conference) legal track, a multi-year project devoted to evaluating search issues in a legal context. Mr. Baron has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia, an Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland's graduate College of Information Studies. He also presently serves on the Georgetown University Law Center Advanced E-discovery Institute advisory board. Mr. Baron received his degrees from Wesleyan University and the Boston University School of Law. (131I)