Ashly Suedkamp Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Melding strategic planning and digital transformation while harnessing the potential of the practical and turning even bigger dreams into reality at the defining enterprise software company of the 21st century. We are transforming the way that legal works and improving the daily work lives of our legal professionals!

San Francisco, California, Us

Changing the demographic of investing one angel at a time!

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Global, Oo

Ashly is a trusted advisor who provided strategic management consulting to Fortune 100s law departments and global law firms. With a focus on strategic initiative assessment, development, implementation, and change management, Ashly has a proven track record of successfully navigating complex, cross-functional challenges in innovative and practical ways. Ashly's expertise includes creating digital transformation roadmaps that allow for immediate, practical results that set departments up for success to evolve as their companies scale. In addition to digital transformation, Ashly weaves in compelling designs for strategic staffing considering remote and global resources and harnessing the power of vendor engagements.

Washington, Dc - District Of Columbia, Us

▪ Developed Managed Review Services offerings to improve efficiency and accuracy of contract legal services support teams resulting in optimized external legal spend.▪ Drafted and implemented eDiscovery project management guidelines and best practices.▪ Counseled corporate clients and outside counsel on best practices to improve legal department operations and initiatives relating to eDiscovery, Managed Review, and vendor management.▪ Contributed to Company’s thought leadership efforts, including participation in speaking engagements, educational courses, webinars, and article drafting.▪ Assisted with drafting and reviewing proposals, RFP responses, and pitches for new clients and new projects.▪ Established and maintained long-term client relationships and identify new business and growth opportunities.▪ Supported Business Development team with subject matter expertise.

New York, Ny, Us

* Develop and support Commercial Management Programme work streams to improve efficiency and optimize external legal spend including revising the global legal panel, assessing major matter management, implementing price optimization, piloting invoice validation, and developing eDiscovery project management guidelines and best practices.* Coordinate and execute global legal vendor panel exercising overall responsibility for the successful delivery of the Americas legal services including planning, budgeting, project management, and law firm negotiations resulting in a new panel structure, a reduction in panel firms, and significant recognized savings in direct legal spend.* Consult and advise Litigation, Internal Investigation,and eDiscovery teams on cost saving initiatives, including development and implementation of “active management” strategies, resulting in significant recognized savings 2014.* Coordinate global cross functional project teams supporting global commercial initiatives by providing guidance to stakeholders, including the global Legal Executive Committee and representatives from Legal, Sourcing, IT, Risk, and Audit departments.* Support global senior stakeholders through multiple RFI/ RFP processes for the global legal panel, the eDiscovery vendor panel, and the managed review service panel.* Advise US attorneys and business units in the segmentation of specific legal work and the identification of appropriate legal vendors to provide the best services at the greatest commercial value.

London, England, Gb

* Develop, implement, and manage electronic discovery best practices and related case management protocols for the Litigation Practice for the North American offices.* Consult with Freshfields attorneys, in-house counsel, clients and vendors regarding electronic data management and project management relating to discovery requests.* Founding member of Freshfields eDiscovery Task Force.* Develop RFI and RFP process to create an eDiscovery preferred provider list used as a global reference.* Lead structural development and implementation of paralegal department best practices and protocols.* Recruit, develop, mentor, and manage litigation support and paralegal staff across US offices.* Manage all document review teams staffed both in-house and using outside vendors including developing case management guidelines, budget guidelines and quality controls.* Establish and maintain vendor relationships, both locally and remotely, advise associates and partners on vendor evaluation and selection, and manage deadlines and quality assurance of vendor work product.* Create and maintain Litigation Practice Group and Litigation Support Services wiki content, resulting in a central repository for eDiscovery references, vendor resources and evaluations, and draft documents. * Develop and present Continuing Legal Education programs for Freshfields Dispute Resolution team.* Selected to attend elite Coaching for Performance training for Freshfields Management Team in London and Smart Managers development training in Frankfurt, Germany.* Voted by US offices as the 2012 employee who is “Exceptional Everyday” and awarded an all expense paid trip to the 2012 London Olympics.

London, England, Gb

* Lead structural development and implementation of paralegal department best practices and protocols.* Recruit, develop, mentor, and manage litigation support and paralegal staff across US offices.* Manage all document review teams staffed both in-house and using outside vendors including developing case management guidelines, budget guidelines and quality controls.* Establish and maintain vendor relationships, both locally and remotely, advise associates and partners on vendor evaluation and selection, and manage deadlines and quality assurance of vendor work product.

Washington, D.C., Us

* Develop and refine search logic to aid in narrowing data sets by incorporating artfully crafted search terms using linguistic elements as well as innovative technology available in various review platforms.* Monitor current developments and industry trends relating to electronic discovery by establishing vendor contacts, requesting vendor meetings, and attending informational seminars.* Assist with the coordination and management of various discovery related activities.* Supervise temporary staff and liaise with vendors, supervising attorneys, and law firm administration.* Conduct document review for responsiveness and privilege issues and create corresponding privilege logs and supporting documents required for interview, deposition, and trial preparation

Doctor Of Law (Jd), Law

B.S., English, Political Science, Psychology

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