Tom Sadaka is Of Counsel to the firm in the Orlando office. Tom helps clients and law firms implement technologies, solutions, and strategies for successfully managing large-scale litigation matters, with an emphasis on electronic discovery. Tom has extensive experience assisting large companies with corporate compliance, technology related critical incident response, document retention, privacy and use policy review and implementation. Tom also handles a wide range of commercial, technology and intellectual property litigation, as well as white collar criminal defense for business and technology crimes.
Tom previously served as Special Counsel for Computer Crimes and Identity Theft Prosecutions in the Florida Attorney General's Office of Statewide Prosecution where he oversaw all criminal prosecution and investigation of computer and Internet related crimes and identity theft cases handled by the office. Mr. Sadaka served as the National Association of Attorneys General computer crime contact, and the Department of Justice 24/7 computer crime prosecution contact. Tom also served as an Assistant State Attorney in the 7th Judicial Circuit where he handled felony criminal prosecutions with an emphasis on economic, white collar, and environmental crimes.
Tom lectures frequently on eDiscovery, Information Security, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA and GLB compliance with a special focus on electronically stored records as well as on business continuity, disaster planning and recovery. Tom is a faculty member of the National Judicial College where he teaches state and federal judiciary on 4th Amendment applications to computer search and seizure, electronic data recovery and eDiscovery matters.
Tom is also an active lecturer and instructor on high technology crimes and identity theft. Tom testified before the United States Congress on Social Security Number misuse by terrorists and identity thieves, and served on a Congressional Task Force on Social Security Number Misuse. He has also testified before the Florida Legislature appeared as an expert in court proceedings on electronic intercept laws and technology. Tom has authored numerous articles on eDiscovery and electronic data preservation.
Tom attended Florida State University where he received a B.A. in Philosophy in 1988. Tom received his JD from St. Thomas University in 1991, and his LL. M. in Taxation from the University of Florida in 1992.
