Celesq® Presenters

Ronald J. Hedges is the Principal of Ronald J. Hedges LLC. He served as a United States Magistrate Judge in the District of New Jersey for over 20 years. 

Ron speaks and writes on a variety of topics, many of which are related to electronic information, including procedural and substantive criminal law, information governance, litigation management, and integration of new technologies such as artificial intelligence into existing information governance policies and procedures. 

Among other things, Ron is the chair of the Court Technology Committee of the Judicial Division of the ABA. He is the lead author of a guide for federal judges on electronically stored information, https://www.fjc.gov/content/323370/managing-discovery-electronic-information-third-edition-2017. 

Ron is also the co-senior editor of The Sedona Conference Cooperation Proclamation, Resources for the Judiciary, Third Edition (June 2020), and the April 2022 Supplement, https://thesedonaconference.org/publication/Resources_for_the_Judiciary, and is the Editor of Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations and Proceedings: Representative Court Decisions and Supplementary Materials, hosted by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office at https://www.mass.gov/service-details/understanding-electronic-information-in-criminal-investigations-and-actions. Ron is a member of the Founders’ Circle of the Georgetown Advanced eDiscovery Institute Planning Board.