• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Florida College of Law: Introduction to Electronic Discovery;  Advanced e-Discovery Seminar; Online Electronic Discovery.
• Faculty of GeorgeTown Institute and the Georgetown e-Discovery Training Academy.
• Martindale-Hubbell AV Peer Review Rating.
• Florida SuperLawyer in the field of IT/Outsourcing.

Ralph Losey is a Partner in Jackson Lewis and Chair of its national Electronic Discovery Practice Group. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida College of Law, teaching e-discovery, advanced e-discovery and online e-discovery.

Prior to becoming a partner at Jackson Lewis in 2010, Mr. Losey was the founder and chair of Akerman Senterfitt's e-discovery practice group from 2006 to April, 2010. Prior to that, he was a shareholder with Katz Kutter and Subin, Shams, Rosenbluth, Moran, Losey and Brennan, P.A. At Subin Shams, he was in charge of the firm's computer systems for more than 15 years.

Mr. Losey has a long history in commercial litigation in both state and federal court, with an emphasis on technology-related issues, ERISA disputes, and qui tam government fraud cases. His experience includes one of the largest e-discovery cases in Central Florida in the 1990’s, and, more recently, one of largest qui tam pharmaceutical fraud cases in the country.

Mr. Losey has unique practical experience as a computer user and amateur programmer, going back to 1978. He has worked with mainframes, mini-computers, Macs and PCs, utilizing all applications imaginable, and creating and designing software in the 1980’s and Internet websites in the 1990’s. He was the first lawyer in Central Florida to have a computer on his desk, the first to use Westlaw, and the first lawyer in Florida with an Internet website. Mr. Losey has also worked with high-tech start-up companies, where he helped develop a food service database that became the industry (IFDA) standard.

He has been involved in technology disputes of all kinds, including Optowave Co., Ltd. v. Dmitri G. Nitikin, 2006 WL 3231422, 2006 LEXIS 81345 (M.D. Fla. Nov. 7, 2006). He was also in the first group of attorneys to be certified by the Florida Supreme Court as a Mediator of Computer Law disputes in 1989 and has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution.

Mr. Losey is an author of e-discovery books and articles, having written more on the subject than anyone in the industry, including three books and three law review articles in the past three years. His newest book was published by West Thomson in February 2010: Electronic Discovery: New Ideas, Trends, Case Law, and Practices (West 2010). He has previously written the American Bar Association's feature books on electronic discovery for 2008 and 2009: Introduction to e-Discovery, (ABA 2009), and e-Discovery: Current Trends and Cases (ABA 2008).

Mr. Losey is also the author of the well-known law review article on the mathematics underlying e-discovery: HASH: The New Bates Stamp, 12 Journal of Technology Law & Policy 1 (June 2007). In early 2009, Mr. Losey wrote a now frequently referenced article on the ethics underlying e-discovery: Lawyers Behaving Badly: Understanding Unprofessional Conduct in e-Discovery, 60 Mercer L. Rev. 983 (Spring 2009). His most recent law review article was written for The Sedona Conference, Mancia v. Mayflower Begins a Pilgrimage to the New World of Cooperation, The Sedona Conference Journal (Winter 2009), on an important new collaborative approach to discovery.

Mr. Losey is also the principle author and publisher of a popular weekly blog on e-discovery, e-Discovery Team Blog, which is generally recognized as the industry's best read and most influential blog on e-discovery news, opinion and analysis.