TALLAHASSEE – Carlton Fields’ Tallahassee shareholder, Robert W. Pass, spoke via videoconference to the Florida Judges of Compensation Claims on trends and developments in Electronic Discovery. The program took place on June 4, 2010 via streaming video to Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and other locations.

Pass' 36 years of practice span a broad array of complex litigation in the state and federal courts, including:

• commercial arbitrations
• class action litigation
• constitutional challenges to state statutes
• public utility law
• insurance regulation litigation
• banking regulation litigation
• accountant and attorney malpractice
• telecommunications law
• unfair and deceptive trade practices
• large industrial contract disputes under the Uniform Commercial Code
• representing corporations undergoing civil investigations by state agencies
• electronic discovery -- counseling clients in developing organizational policies, procedures, and systems to effectively and efficiently participate in discovery involving Electronically Stored Information (“ESI”), as well as representing clients on ESI discovery matters in litigation.

He has also tried lengthy commercial arbitrations and some of the more complex proceedings brought in a Florida administrative forum. Pass has counseled clients in matters of dispute avoidance, pre-litigation planning and strategic decision making in circumstances implicating potential litigation risk.

Pass heads the Carlton Fields’ Electronic Discovery Group, is a member of The Sedona Conference Working Group On Electronic Document Retention and Production, and has spoken and published in the area of Electronic Discovery. He received his J.D., with high honors, from the Florida State University in 1974 and his B.A. in Government and Economics from the Florida State University in 1971.