Michael A. Gold is a senior partner in the litigation department of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP, in Los Angeles, California. He is cochair of the firm's Discovery Technology Group^TM. He is a frequent speaker and writer on subjects ranging from computer software failures to electronic information management. Mr. Gold serves on the Board of Editors of the Privacy & Data Security Law Journal and is a coauthor of the Bureau of National Affairs Corporate Practice Series Portfolio, Records Retention for Enterprise Knowledge Management, published in December 2006.