Well, this is unexpected. And fun!
Way back in the aughts, after having co-taught a cybercrimes course for several years at John Marshall Law School (now UIC School of Law) while still serving as an Assistant Attorney General at the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, Patrick Zeller, Scott Carlson, and I pivoted with my transition to Protek and the civil world and designed and co-taught what a Gartner analyst told us was the nation’s first law school course focused on eDiscovery, Computer Forensics, and Information Governance.
There was never a shortage of topical current events to discuss in our weekly classes! At the time, it seemed like a hit parade of one seminal development after another–from defining opinions like Zubalake hitting seemingly every week, to emerging technologies like TAR, and the legal industry’s efforts to get ahead of the curve through efforts like the EDRM and the Seventh Circuit’s Pilot Program. After a rewarding run there, including our course receiving an award from the school, “in recognition of innovation and excellence,” I stepped away around 2015 to focus my time and energy in other directions. But the subject matter, and the technology driving it, certainly didn’t stand still.
Fast forward to earlier this year, when I received an email from Northwestern Law School’s Associate Dean of Academic Affairs asking whether I would be interested in helping establish an eDiscovery course offering at Northwestern. For sure! I truly enjoyed my prior stint as an adjunct professor, and all of the CLE presentations I have done since then have only reinforced how much I enjoy teaching, particularly on these topics. Combined with the honor of teaching at Northwestern Law, it was a complete no-brainer to say, “yes!”
So, I’m incredibly excited to be teaching eDiscovery and Electronic Evidence this coming academic year, with additional focus areas on privacy, cybersecurity, and the implications of artificial intelligence in modern legal practice. I’ll be joined by my tremendously accomplished co-instructor, Patrick Zeller, now General Counsel at JetStream.
So, it’s now Northwestern Adjunct Professor of Law Chval, if you please.
Looking forward to it!
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