Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., is the President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc., a computer forensics and legal technology firm in Fairfax, Virginia. Ms. Nelson graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1978 and has been in private practice ever since, now concentrating exclusively in electronic evidence law.
Ms. Nelson is a past President of the Fairfax Bar Association, a Director of the Fairfax Law Foundation and serves as a member of ARMA’s E-Discovery Advisory Group. She is a former Chair of the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Publishing Board. She is also a graduate of Leadership Fairfax, is a past chair of the American Bar Association’s TECHSHOW and serves on the Virginia State Bar governing Council and on its Executive Committee, Court Technology Committee, and as Chair of the Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee. She is a co-author of The Electronic Evidence and Discovery Handbook: Forms, Checklists and Guidelines (American Bar Association, 2006) and Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms (American Bar Association, 2006), as well as The 2008, 2009 and 2010 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guides ( American Bar Association, 2008,2009,2010). She is also a co-author of How Good Lawyers Survive Bad Times (ABA, 2009).
Ms. Nelson is the author of the noted electronic evidence blog, Ride the Lightning and is a co-host of the American Bar Association podcast series called “The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology.” She is a frequent author and speaker on legal technology and electronic evidence.
