Leverage extensive court-room litigation and technology policy experience to co-lead this legal management and technology consultancy, working with large corporations, law firms, and governments to develop, implement, and operationalize risk management, compliance, and litigation readiness and information governance programs. This practice group relocated to Epiq Systems from Thomson Reuters in 2011.•Counsel C-level clients, general counsels and risk management executives to design, develop, and implement tailored strategies to effectively manage information, mitigate risk, limit exposure, and decrease the cost of maintaining records required for operations, compliance, regulatory inquiries, and litigation. Successful litigation support, records and information governance, and process improvement projects have been conducted for national law firms and Fortune 500 businesses.• Manage all aspects of group consulting practice work, including project staffing, project management, standards and methodologies, client relations, and quality assurance.• Engage in extensive business development efforts, from client presentations to large public speaking engagements, including proposal writing, fee structuring and contract negotiation.• Create deep, trusted advisor relationships with senior stakeholders generating client loyalty and significant additional engagement opportunities.

Hildebrandt Baker Robbins (HBR) is a leading legal management and technology consultancy working with large corporations, law firms, and governments internationally.• Leveraged eleven years of courtroom litigation and technology policy experience to develop a multi-million dollar practice for HBR using policy-driven and technology supported methods to counsel clients and allow them to more effectively manage available information, mitigate risk, limit exposure, increase customer service, and decrease the cost of maintaining records required to support general business operations, compliance, regulatory inquiries, and litigation.• Lead tailored strategy development efforts with client senior management, typically C-level executives, general counsels, and risk management. Successful litigation support and process improvement projects for national law firms include those at Dickstein Shapiro, Ogletree Deakins, and Sidley Austin, as well as at leading corporations, which include several Fortune 100 businesses.• Manage all aspects of group consulting practice work, including project staffing, project management, standards and methodologies, client relations, and quality assurance.• Engage in extensive business development efforts, from client presentations to large public speaking engagements, including proposal writing, fee structuring and contract negotiation.• Create deep, trusted advisor relationships with senior stakeholders generating client loyalty and significant additional engagement opportunities.• Promoted from Senior Associate to Director in 2007; promoted from Director to Senior Director in 2010.

• Served as the principal legal, policy, and management advisor on law and technology issues to the nation’s largest governmental legal department outside of the U.S. Department of Justice.• Architected a new legal case management information system, and designed and implemented network-based solutions for efficient document production and legal information management pertaining to a caseload in excess of 100,000 matters.• Developed intranet publishing and document management systems for complex litigation and to facilitate data distribution among City agencies and offices.• Provided analysis and advice regarding privacy copyright, trademark, and licensing issues associated with software development, acquisition, and distribution.• As Assistant Corporation Counsel from 1995 to 1999, represented the City in litigation and transactions involving tort liability, real property valuation for cases involving ad valorem taxation and eminent domain awards, and bulk securitized lien sales.• Performed all aspects of pre-trial motion practice: argued hundreds of motions, conducted/defended hundreds of depositions, and successfully negotiated pre-trial settlements in a wide variety of cases.• EEO Counselor/Investigator. Received and investigated complaints of alleged federal, state and local anti-discrimination law violations. Made findings and recommendations and, where appropriate, counseled parties and implemented corrective measures.