Summit ‘24 Speakers

AJ Shankar is the Founder & CEO of Everlaw, an AI-powered cloud-based software for litigation and investigations that helps legal teams chart a straighter path to the truth. Before founding Everlaw, AJ graduated from Harvard with an AB in Mathematics and Computer Science and received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

As an award-winning journalist, Shankar Vedantam has dedicated himself to shedding light on the unseen forces that shape our world. His podcast Hidden Brain is one of the most popular in the world, with over 2 million downloads per week, and combines science, data, and psychology to present ideas to listeners in unique ways.

Kevin Roose is an award-winning technology columnist for The New York Times and the best-selling author of three books, Futureproof, Young Money, and The Unlikely Disciple. His column, “The Shift,” examines the intersection of tech, business, and culture.

Kevin is a recurring guest on The Daily and appears regularly on leading TV and radio shows. He writes and speaks frequently on topics including automation and artificial intelligence, social media, disinformation and cybersecurity, and digital wellness.

Jessica Ma is a seasoned SaaS customer success and post-sales service executive with over 22 years of experience dedicated to helping clients and customers achieve their goals. Known for her customer-centric approach, Jessica has spent her career building and leading global teams that excel in delivering personalized solutions, ensuring smooth onboarding, adoption, and ongoing support. Her expertise lies in fostering strong client relationships, guiding them through their journey, and empowering diverse teams to provide exceptional service.

Mark is a cutting-edge, data-driven trial lawyer. Much like the pioneering lawyers in DNA forensics, Mark understands the foundational role that technology now plays in our lives and how to leverage that understanding to prove cases thought to be unwinnable.

Mark has demonstrated expertise in leveraging cutting-edge technology in DiCello Levitt’s modern and evolving trial practice to achieve what were previously believed to be impossible results for his clients. An internet technology expert, he is a student of integrating technology into the practice of law. He has been selected to national discovery review teams and is regularly consulted on cloud-based systems, discovery technology, the Internet of Things, and litigation concerning data storage and security. He has testified before the Ohio State Legislature multiple times on data security and related issues.

Mark is a respected litigator and trial lawyer who has recouped life-changing compensation for clients around the country. He has expertise and experience ranging from defective products to internet technology disputes. Mark is recognized for breaking barriers in medical malpractice litigation through groundbreaking work in exposing electronic medical record alterations and successfully expanding states’ damages caps in joint replacement surgery cases.

Mark brings a unique voice to the Sedona Conference’s Data Security and Privacy Liability working group and is one of the authors of Sedona’s Biometric Privacy Primer. He has also served as a Trustee of the Ohio Association for Justice since 2014. Mark is currently Editor-in-Chief of Ohio Trial and is a member of Law360’s Personal Injury Editorial Advisory Board.

Mark Agombar is a distinguished legal professional and the driving force behind XBundle. With a legal career spanning over three decades, he’s a seasoned innovator who continuously seeks ways to alleviate the pressures faced by legal teams. Mark is an expert in tailoring solutions to meet diverse legal team requirements. Under his guidance, the XBundle team provides comprehensive in-house Edisclosure and support services to silver law firms, meticulously managing the Ediscovery process.

Abigail Avilucea is an Ediscovery Manager for Santa Clara County, and has extensive knowledge and practice with managing electronic discovery on a large scale. She’s practiced in multiple states.

As Associate County Counselor and Administrative Law Manager for St. Louis County, Jennifer is responsible for managing the county government’s labor and employment team, including union negotiations, progressive discipline and EEOC complaints, legal opinions, document and case management system, ediscovery system and processes, records retention, and support staff.

Stephanie Biehl has dedicated her career to advocacy on behalf of communities and individuals taking on prodigious and powerful adversaries in complex, high-stakes litigation. She has a variety of experience prosecuting cases from investigation through trial and appeals and has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star consistently throughout her practice.

Before joining Sher Edling, Stephanie was successful in obtaining multimillion-dollar recoveries through complex cases in the business, consumer, employment, securities, derivative, and class action fields. She and her teams were routinely appointed Lead Counsel and Class Counsel in a variety of state and federal cases.

Stephanie was a judicial extern for Senior District Judge Charles R. Breyer for the Northern District of California, and she graduated cum laude from UC Hastings College of the Law. While at Hastings, she earned her concentration in Civil Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, was an award-winning member of the nationally-renowned Hastings Trial Team, and was the Executive Notes Editor of the Hastings Business Law Journal.

Prior to law school, Stephanie attended Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU) where she received her BS in Business Administration and her BA in Spanish Studies. She graduated summa cum laude, as the valedictorian of her class. Stephanie also had the honor of being the Undergraduate Commencement Speaker and receiving the highest leadership and excellence awards from her academic schools, the Cross Country team, multiple student life groups, the NDNU Board of Trustees, and the City of Belmont.

Julie is the director of practice technology at Vorys. She has worked in legal technology for more than 30 years. She has a paralegal degree and has worked in law firms and in-house litigation departments. Her experience includes managing large scale ediscovery and document productions, records management, litigation technology training and development of numerous litigation technology databases. She manages Vorys’ litigation technology department, which provides in-house support, training, processing and production of ediscovery.

Julie is active in coordinating litigation technology education opportunities for the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) and serves as the Conference Co-Chair for ILTACon 2019-2020. In 2020, Julie received ILTA’s Contributor of the Year Award and in 2011, Julie received ILTA’s Distinguished Peer Award for Litigation and Practice Support. She is a certified Ediscovery Specialist (CEDS) and is certified in ViewPoint, Summation, Sanction, Law 5.0, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Lean Six Sigma.

Zach Caplan concentrates his practice on complex litigation, including antitrust class actions on behalf of consumers, workers, businesses, and public entities.

Zach serves as a member of leadership teams that have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for the firm’s clients. For example, he has played a significant role in litigating antitrust cases brought on behalf of physicians and other purchasers targeting the soaring prices of prescription drugs. In this space, he has litigated reverse payment, patent fraud, monopolization, and price-fixing matters in federal courts around the country. Zach has also been involved in several cases alleging years-long manipulation of global financial benchmarks by some of the world’s largest banks.

Prior to rejoining the firm in 2023, Zach was an attorney with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. While at the Justice Department, Zach led teams investigating anticompetitive conduct in the healthcare space and assisted with fast-paced monopolization litigation. He also served on the Division-wide Discovery and Technology Working Group where he contributed to guidelines for all Division attorneys on various ediscovery topics.

Zach is an active participant in the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) and the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws (COSAL). He regularly speaks and writes on antitrust and ediscovery issues.

Chelsy Castro is principal and founder of Castro Jacobs Psychotherapy and Consulting, a firm specializing in lawyer well-being. A recognized expert in highachiever well-being, Chelsy has worked with tech companies, universities, international law firms, and numerous companies across the country. From thousand-person conferences to 20-person workshops, Chelsy equips her audiences with the knowledge and skills necessary for sustainably healthy success in a competitive world.

A graduate of the University of Chicago and American University Washington College of Law, Chelsy practiced law as a multilingual attorney in the field of international regulatory compliance before transitioning into the clinical and consulting fields. An attorney turned psychotherapist and performance coach, she now counsels individuals, teams, and the organizations they work for on how to achieve their goals in healthy and productive ways. Chelsy’s publications and trainings focus on science-based skills and strategies for improving performance and increasing well-being in high-pressure professions.

She has been featured by the American Bar Association, Telemundo, and several legal industry publications and podcasts. She is a renowned speaker, author of the book 50 Lessons for Happy Lawyers, and creator of the Healthy High-Achiever e-learning suite.

Judge Corodemus is a highly experienced professional in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and a sought-after special master/adjudicator by Federal and State Courts involving class actions, mass torts, environmental contamination, natural resource damages, products liability, consumer fraud, and serious aggregate litigation. She brings over 10 years of experience on the bench as New Jersey’s sole Mass Tort Judge.

Judge Corodemus is the Director of ADR Practice in her firm Corodemus & Corodemus LLC with a national practice. She has lectured throughout the country. She is a member of the ALI Aggregate Litigation Advisor Committee, is a Board and Executive Board Member of the Sedona Conference and is a adjunct Professor at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey. She was awarded the Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz Lifetime Achievement Award and served as past president of the Academy of Court-Appointed Masters.

As part of Kiewit’s Strategic Resolutions Group, Cat concentrates on finding a path to resolve the company’s most complex and challenging disputes, while managing sensitive internal and external investigations. In her role, Cat regularly leverages organizational insights and lessons learned to identify and champion process improvement opportunities to mitigate risk.

For the past 30+ years, Steve Davis has performed and supervised hundreds of investigations on behalf of governmental agencies, corporations and law firms involving civil and criminal matters. Steve is a Licensed Private Investigator in the State of Texas and the Private Security Company Manager for Purpose Legal. Steve has been with Purpose Legal (and its predecessor company Digital Discovery) for the past 16 years. He has testified on behalf of his clients on over 50 occasions relating to investigative findings on both causation and damages.

Steven oversees the firm’s ediscovery consulting, processing, analytics, and document review capabilities, and manages the Litigation Support Department.

He is responsible for the overall strategic planning of litigation technology for the firm, including development of recommended practices and standard operating procedures, and the selection of preferred vendor partnerships. Steven also advises clients and litigation teams on evidence management, ESI protocols, best practices, trial technology, and ediscovery project workflow.

As Associate Dean for Clinical Programs and Experiential Learning, Professor Delfino oversees the administration of experiential learning programs, legal skills courses, and the law school’s 21 live-client clinics. She closely collaborates with the administration, staff, and faculty of LLS and LMU on academic programs, budget management, and co-curricular matters relating to clinics, skills classes, and experiential learning, including trial and appellate advocacy, the public interest department, entertainment law program, field placement department, institutes, and practicum. She also works on course curriculum design and development of programs that support the professional development of faculty colleagues’ teaching skills and clinical courses.

Professor Delfino teaches skills and doctrinal courses in appellate law, legal ethics and civil procedure, the judicial branch, advanced legal writing, and alternative dispute resolution. She also teaches in Loyola’s part-time evening hybrid program and developed the ethical lawyering, appellate advocacy, and moot court courses designed to fit the unique hybrid course schedule.

Her research and scholarship interests center on the intersection of the law and current events and emergencies, such as the opioid epidemic, the proliferation of deepfakes and AI technologies, and immigration crises. Her work investigates the historical roots of events and crises while also projecting forward, exploring how the law can and should be used to provide solutions to emerging problems and potential catastrophes.

Professor Delfino believes that the answers to the societal challenges appear only through active intellectual engagement that crosses the disciplines within the law and beyond. Accordingly, her scholarship reflects the need for greater connections between fields of law and the academic disciplines of business, humanities, natural and applied sciences, and social science.

In addition to teaching and scholarship, Professor Delfino also serves as the Faculty Director of Loyola’s nationally recognized and award-winning Moot Court Program. As Director of the Loyola Moot Court Program, Professor Delfino has developed a unique and intensive summer advocacy “boot camp” at Loyola for advanced legal writing and oral advocacy students.

Prior to joining the full-time faculty of the law school Professor Delfino served as Lead Senior Appellate Attorney at the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Seven for 17 years. During her tenure at the Court of Appeal she researched and prepared more than 800 bench memoranda and draft legal opinions in numerous areas of law from felony criminal cases, to complex civil litigation, to family law and probate, to juvenile dependency and delinquency matters. In addition to her full-time position at the Court of Appeal, in 1999 Professor Delfino joined the adjunct faculty of Loyola Law School.

Professor Delfino is a member of the adjunct faculty of the Glendale Community College where she teaches a political science course focused on California State and Local Government and a course focused on the United States federal government and politics at the national level.

Professor Delfino served as a “neutral” for the Los Angeles County Superior Court from 1999 until 2014. Since 1999 she has been mediator, arbitrator and judge pro tem. As a volunteer bench officer, Rebecca has presided over more than 100 limited civil arbitrations and small claims trials.

Professor Delfino began her legal career as litigator at Kirkland & Ellis and was later an associate at Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan in Los Angeles. She handled all phases of civil litigation in a variety of cases from complex multi-party product defect and construction cases to white-collar criminal defense, to protection of intellectual property rights, to defense of employment discrimination and harassment claims.

During law school, Professor Delfino had an externship with the Honorable William Shubb of the Federal District Court of the Eastern District of California in Sacramento. After graduation from law school, she served on a clerkship with the Honorable Cliff Young, Associate Justice of the Nevada State Supreme Court.

Professor Delfino also worked as an elementary school teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District in South Central Los Angeles before attending law school.

Kathy Enstrom is the Director of Investigations for the Moore Tax Law Group and a former Executive within Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS CI). Having spent nearly 28 years in federal law enforcement, Ms. Enstrom has expertise in financial crimes, specifically income and employment tax evasion, money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act violations, government assistance fraud, and bank fraud.

Ms. Enstrom brings over a quarter of a century’s experience investigating financial crimes. She will assist clients facing governmental investigations and civil matters involving all manner of alleged tax, financial, and economic fraud.

Ms. Enstrom began her IRS career in 1995 as an intern with IRS CI in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the year following was sworn in as a Special Agent in Chicago, Illinois. She then moved throughout the organization in various investigative and management roles. These supervisory roles were located in Chicago, New York City, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and Ottawa, Canada.

Ms. Enstrom rose to an executive position within IRS CI and her last assignment was to serve as Executive Director of Field Operations-Northern Area, overseeing one-third of the United States, which included offices headquartered in Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Newark, Boston, and New York City. Previous to this assignment, she was the Executive Special Agent in Charge for the Chicago Field Office and the Executive Director for CI’s Operations, Policy and Support. There she oversaw all CI policy and Internal Revenue Manual updates and the Financial Crimes Section, National Forensic Lab, Special Investigative Techniques Section, Warrants & Forfeitures Section, Treasury Liaison, TEOAF Liaison, and FinCEN Liaison.

Ms. Enstrom’s time in federal law enforcement concluded with her role as Chicago’s Special Agent in Charge of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Inspector General from July 2021 to March 2023. In this role, she conducted investigations involving bank fraud and oversaw agents covering six states in the Midwest which included Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky.

Andrew represents and counsels some of the largest businesses and financial institutions in the country in complex commercial disputes—including claims arising from contract, business torts, class actions, securities fraud, business combinations, shareholder disputes, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, software implementation and intellectual property disputes, including trade secrets and non-competition agreements.

Andrew’s experience includes appearances in federal and state courts throughout the country, as well as in all types of ADR proceedings. Highlights of his experience includes representing a significant public company and its senior officers in securities and derivative cases, and financial services institutions in commercial disputes, securities cases, and merger challenges. He has been recognized as a Rising Star by Ohio Super Lawyers.

In addition to his complex commercial dispute resolution experience, Andrew is Chair of the Firm’s eDiscovery Group. Andrew’s ediscovery practice focuses on providing practical advice, strategic guidance, and predicable costs in the collection, retention, review, and production of documents and things in connection with litigation, subpoena responses, and ADR proceedings. Andrew also provides pre-dispute counseling regarding document-retention policies and ediscovery planning.

A partner in Lief Cabraser’s New York office, Wendy R. Fleishman is a passionate and experienced lawyer for the injured and the loved ones of those who died due to the wrongful misconduct of others. With more than thirty years of courtroom experience to draw upon, a large part of Wendy’s practice today consists of representing patients prescribed drugs with undisclosed and dangerous side effects or who received defective medical devices.

Wendy has served in leadership roles in significant Multidistrict Litigation cases in federal and state courts involving pharmaceutical drugs, medical devices, and personal health products, including a 2022 appointment by the District Court as Co-Lead Counsel in the Bovine Milk Formula MDL, a 2019 appointment by the District Court as Co-Lead Counsel in the NFL Concussion Injuries litigation, the 2019 appointment in the MDL lawsuit against the Riddell Helmet Manufacturing Co., and a recent appointment to the Plaintiffs Executive Committee in the Bard IVC Filter Injuries MDL pending in the District of Arizona.

Wendy’s leadership roles in other cases include the Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG-II hip implant litigation, Zimmer Durom Cup Hip Implant Litigation, Yaz and Yasmin litigation, DePuy hip implant litigation, Medtronic Sprint Fidelis heart lead, the Guidant cardiac defibrillator, the Ortho Evra Patch litigation, and contaminated contact lens solution litigation against Bausch & Lomb and Abbott Medical Optics. Wendy devotes a part of her practice to a wide range of individual catastrophic injury cases. Her expertise includes vehicle accidents based on design defects, as well as serious and complicated medical malpractice cases.

Since 2006, Wendy has been named a New York Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers magazine. She is an AV+ rated by Martindale-Hubbell, which indicates she is regarded as preeminently qualified by her peers. She has been named in the top 100 trial lawyers in America. Wendy is an officer of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. She is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the New York State Delegate to the Board of Governors of the American Association for Justice, and past President of the American Association for Justice’s Section on Tort, Environmental and Product Liability Litigation.

Manfred Gabriel is an attorney in Holland & Knight’s New York office who leads the firm’s Legal Support Services organization. In this role, Mr. Gabriel oversees Holland & Knight’s comprehensive and integrated ediscovery and fact-finding unit, which assists clients in managing the risks and costs of ediscovery by leveraging advanced technology and workflows. In addition, he provides clients with a wide range of services from enterprise-level ediscovery management to delivery on large, complex ediscovery projects.

He has assisted clients in: responding to litigation ediscovery requests, including data identification and collection, data processing and hosting, and structuring document reviews, quality control and document productions; advanced ediscovery workflows, with a particular focus on technology-assisted review or predictive coding, statistical sampling and statistical process control, as well as streamlining and integrating the various aspects of complex ediscovery projects; data privacy and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), especially for international companies active in the United States; litigation readiness, litigation holds and data preservation; sophisticated fact development to minimize the risk in litigation while strengthening the client’s case.

As an antitrust attorney, Mr. Gabriel has successfully assisted clients in responding to large, fast-paced regulatory requests. He has worked with Fortune 1000 companies in several industries, including high-tech, transportation, pharmaceuticals and financial services. Mr. Gabriel has testified as a 30(b)(6) witness on ediscovery process and data spoliation issues.

In addition, Mr. Gabriel teaches ediscovery at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Gabriel led the managed-review offering for a multinational professional services network. In addition, he led global engagements (including time in India to lead a team of 70) in ediscovery, contract intelligence and litigation readiness. Mr. Gabriel also consulted on data privacy and cross-border discovery, including GDPR and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

Judge Allison Goddard was sworn in as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of California in August 2019. She graduated from Boston College in 1993 and received her JD from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2000. Judge Goddard spent the first half of her legal career representing corporate defendants in litigation at Cooley LLP and her own law firm, Jaczko Goddard LLP. In 2011, she shifted her practice to representing plaintiffs in complex and intellectual property litigation. She has tried several cases, including class actions and patent infringement disputes. Judge Goddard speaks regularly on ediscovery and other litigation issues. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the San Diego Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and the Louis M. Welsh Inn of Court.

Maura R. Grossman is a Research Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, and an affiliate faculty member of the Vector Institute, all in Ontario, Canada, as well as an ediscovery attorney and consultant in Buffalo, New York. Previously, she was of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where for 17 years, she represented Fortune 100 companies and major financial institutions in civil litigation and white collar criminal and regulatory investigations, and advised the firm’s lawyers and clients on legal, technical, and strategic issues involving ediscovery and information governance, both domestically and abroad.

Maura is a well-known and influential ediscovery expert. She was described in Who’s Who Litigation E-Discovery Analysis as “‘sensational’ according to her peers and . . . a ‘go-to’ in the area,” and by Chambers & Partners USA Litigation: E-Discovery as “the best-known person in the area of technology-assisted review; a superstar among superstars.” Maura’s scholarly work on TAR, most notably, Technology-Assisted Review in E-Discovery Can Be More Effective and More Efficient Than Exhaustive Manual Review, published in the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology in 2011, has been widely cited in case law, both in the U.S. and abroad. Her longstanding contributions to ediscovery technology and process were featured in the February 2016 issue of The American Lawyer and in the September 2016 ABA Journal – where she was recognized as a 2016 Legal Rebel. In 2017, Maura was one of 10 additions to the ABA’s list of Women in Legal Tech; was named to the Fastcase50 list, which honors “the year’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law”; and was honored by the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (“ACEDS”), and Women in eDiscovery (‘WiE”) as one of the “women who have served as pioneers and innovators in ediscovery and legal technology.”

Maura has been a court-appointed special master, mediator, and expert to the court in many high-profile federal and state court cases. She has provided ediscovery training to federal and state court judges, by invitation of the court, and has testified several times before the Advisory Committees on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Evidence Rules. Maura has also taught more than a dozen courses on ediscovery at Columbia, Georgetown, Pace, and Rutgers–Newark law schools, and has been a guest lecturer at many more.

Maura was a member of the Steering Committee of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention and Production from 2012 through 2018, and also served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Seventh Circuit Council on Electronic Discovery and Digital Information. She has been involved in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Text Retrieval Conference (“TREC”) since 2008; in 2010 and 2011, as coordinator of the Legal Track, and in 2015 and 2016, as coordinator of the Total Recall Track. Maura presently serves on the Advisory Boards of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (“EDRM”), ACEDS, and the Merlin Foundation, as well as the Georgetown Advanced eDiscovery Institute and Arizona State University-Arkfeld eDiscovery and Digital Evidence Conference.

Maura graduated with an AB, magna cum laude, from Brown University. She earned MA and PhD degrees in Psychology from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University, and a JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from the Georgetown University Law Center. While at Georgetown, Maura served as Executive Notes and Comments Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.

Donna is currently Vice President, Associate General Counsel, with global responsibility for supporting IBM’s cloud business. Donna is also a Founding Board Member of IBM’s AI Ethics Board, and she led IBM’s Global Pro Bono Program for three years. From 2011 to 2014, Donna worked in Dubai on international assignment as Senior Regional Counsel, IBM Middle East, North and West Africa.

Donna has over 25 years of experience in advising her senior business clients on various legal issues as well as more than 25 years of non-profit board service in a variety of leadership, advisory and committee roles. Donna has been involved in AI legal matters since the inception of IBM’s Watson AI business unit in 2014.

Donna is a speaker on AI, AI Ethics, AI and the Law and the intersection of STEM and the Law. Donna holds a JD from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

Justin Herring provides clients with comprehensive representation and counseling on sophisticated cybersecurity matters, including global incident response, enforcement actions and related litigation, cyber monitorships and regulatory compliance. He also advises individuals and entities in the crypto and fintech sectors.

Sean Hert supports the work of the Ohio Attorney General’s office through litigation technology assistance and advice regarding technical aspects of litigation and ediscovery, with a focus on complex litigation and plaintiff discovery.

Kang has extensive experience as in-house general counsel, having worked for a range of leading organizations focused on revolutionizing their industries, from semiconductors to e-commerce, and renewable energy to cybersecurity.

She has been general counsel for a number of companies, including Chronicle, Makani, and Cupertino Electric, Inc., where she negotiated a number of utility-scale solar projects with utilities and other organizations. Kang began her in-house legal career at Lam Research Corporation, gaining global experience working with subsidiaries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. Prior to Lam, she worked in Seoul as a foreign legal consultant for the law firm of Shin and Kim. She started her career with Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton in Los Angeles. Kang holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a law degree from the University of Michigan School of Law.

In addition to her extensive experience, Kang also invests her time supporting people in the legal community. She is the founder of the Women’s General Counsel Network (WGCN), which brings together women general counsels to provide support and education relating to their professional roles, and is now more than 1600 members strong.

Eric serves as the liaison between the legal and technology teams at the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office. He uses his specialized knowledge and experience to create technology-based solutions for complex problems. He helps develop case strategy related to the collection, review, and production of information. In the courtroom, he helps his colleagues communicate their theory of the case through exhibits and other visuals.

Prior to the AGO, Eric worked for a boutique digital forensics firm specializing in the investigation of trade secret theft. He has served as both a testifying and consulting expert witness.

An accomplished business operations leader with extensive experience ranging from Fortune 200 companies to startups, Juanita serves as legal operations consultant to in-house law departments.

Juanita was previously the director of legal operations and administration for the office of the general counsel at PG&E, the largest utility company in the nation. In that role, Juanita was responsible for ensuring efficient, effective operations throughout PG&E’s legal organization. She led multi-year processes for integrated strategic planning, finance, talent management, systems administration and department operations. She also oversaw outside counsel management, the enterprise claims department, and other key initiatives, working closely with the enterprise lines of business to facilitate successful relations. Additionally, Juanita served as a champion for diversity and inclusion throughout the company.

Dr. Megan Ma is a Research Fellow and the Associate Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology and the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX). Her research focuses on the translation of legal knowledge to code, considering its implications in contexts of human-machine interaction. She also teaches courses in computational law and insurance tech at the Law School.

Dr. Ma is also currently an Advisor to the PearX for AI program, Editor-in-Chief for the Cambridge Forum on AI, Law, and Governance, and the Managing Editor of the MIT Computational Law Report and a Research Affiliate at Singapore Management University in their Centre for Computational Law. Megan received her PhD in Law at Sciences Po and was a lecturer there, having taught courses in Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning, Legal Semantics, and Public Health Law and Policy. She has previously been a Visiting PhD at the University of Cambridge and Harvard Law School respectively.

Sean leads the firm’s innovation in organizing and prosecuting individual class cases across many states involving the same defendants and similar factual and legal issues, an approach that continues to be a key factor in the firm’s success.

Current Role

• Partner, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP
• Practice focuses on multi-state and nationwide class actions and complex commercial litigation encompassing securities and finance, consumer, antitrust, insurance and products
• Diverse experience in most of the firm’s practice areas, involving appearances in state and federal courts across the country at both the trial and appellate levels
• Key member of the firm’s automobile defect litigation team
• Key member of the firm’s securities litigation team, co-leading the prosecution and settlement of the In re Charles Schwab Securities Litigation, the In re Oppenheimer Champion Income Fund Securities Class Actions and the Oppenheimer Core Bond Fund Class Action Litigation
• Key member of the firm’s pharmaceutical litigation team that confronts unfair and deceptive pricing and marketing practices in the drug and dietary supplement industries including Average Wholesale Price Litigation, the First Databank/McKesson Pricing Fraud Litigation and the Enzyte Litigation

Steve has more than 20 years of legal and compliance experience in the financial services industry in the US and UK. As Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel at Nasdaq Private Market, Steve leads all legal affairs for the company globally and provides guidance to the business on corporate, commercial, and securities matters.

Considered the “Magic Man,” independent fire litigation consultant Greg McCullough specializes in uncovering the key evidence that makes the case in fire-related litigation.

Jeffrey McKenna, CIPP US/E, is a Senior Ediscovery and Privacy Attorney in Orrick’s Chambers-recognized Ediscovery & Information Governance practice based in San Francisco. He holds two certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals in both US and European privacy law, and has significant experience advising large organizations on complex privacy and discovery issues, including those related to cross-border investigations, international discovery, cybersecurity incidents, CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, Chinese state secrets law, and state specific privacy laws.

Gordon Moffat is an experienced leader in ediscovery and legal technology, skilled in managing projects, teams, and processes. He’s passionate about achieving informed consensus and dedicated to delivering exceptional results.

Paul Noonan is an experienced corporate litigation attorney and ediscovery expert, currently serving as in-house ediscovery counsel for United Airlines. With a career spanning roles at Robert Half, General Motors, and Sears, Paul manages discovery for a wide range of legal matters, including intellectual property, antitrust, class action, product liability, employment, and real estate cases. He is responsible for vetting, selecting, and implementing ediscovery technology, and developing best practices with a focus on risk management and cost savings. Paul also oversees litigation portfolios, supports regulatory and criminal divisions, and assists with internal investigations. Known for his deep understanding of the ediscovery landscape, Paul has witnessed the evolution of the field from its early, ‘wild west’ days to the sophisticated in-house operations of today

Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer served as a Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago from October 1, 1991, to 1998. She served as Presiding Magistrate Judge from 1996 until 1998. On July 31, 1997, Judge Pallmeyer was nominated to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton. She was confirmed by the Senate on October 21, 1998, and received her commission on October 22, 1998. On July 1, 2019, Judge Pallmeyer became Chief Judge of the Northern District of Illinois, making her the first woman to head the federal court in Chicago in its 200-year history.

Judge Pallmeyer was born in Tokyo and grew up in St. Louis. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Valparaiso University in 1976 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 1979. Before taking the bench, Judge Pallmeyer was a law clerk to Rosalie E. Wahl, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice, from 1979 to 1980. Judge Pallmeyer was in private practice in commercial litigation in Chicago, Illinois from 1980 to 1985 at the law firm of Hopkins & Sutter (later acquired by Foley & Lardner). Judge Pallmeyer then served as an administrative law judge on the Illinois Human Rights Commission from 1985 to 1991. During her more than two decades on the federal bench, Judge Pallmeyer has presided over several significant cases. She presided over the six-month corruption trial of former Illinois Governor George Ryan, whom she sentenced in 2006 to six-and-a-half years in prison. Another was the trial of the man who helped plot the murder of Heather Mack’s mother in Bali, whom she sentenced to nine years in prison.

Judge Pallmeyer serves as the Seventh Circuit’s District Judge Representative to the United States Judicial Conference. She is an honorary fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Since 2006, Judge Pallmeyer has served on the faculty for the annual ALI-CLE program, Current Developments in Employment Law, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Judge Pallmeyer is past President of the Lawyers Club of Chicago, past President of the Richard Linn American Inn of Courts, and an active member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, and the American Bar Association.

The Honorable Evette D. Pennypacker has served on the Superior Court of Santa Clara County since her appointment by Governor Brown in 2018. Before her judicial appointment, she was a distinguished intellectual property litigation partner at Quinn Emanuel, where she represented clients nationwide in patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret cases. Judge Pennypacker holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from U.C. Hastings College of the Law and a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

As the Chief Information and Security Officer of Cole, Scott & Kissane, Jason Thomas brings over eight years of leadership experience in overseeing the firm’s information security and technology strategies. With a career spanning more than 24 years in the technology sector, his expertise extends across a variety of industries, including biotechnology and local government, allowing him to adopt a versatile and insightful approach to integrating technology with business objectives.

Thane is responsible for setting the policy, procedure and performance metrics for the ediscovery phase of litigation for HP Inc. This includes reviewing and revising global processes surrounding the identification, preservation, collection, processing and review of information, as well as measuring vendor and outside counsel performance.

Before joining HP, Thane was senior counsel in the litigation department of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty. He started his career as an attorney for Jones Day where he represented clients in complex commercial litigation. He received his JD from the University of Southern California Law School and was an editor on the Southern California Law Review.

William “Bill” Vance is Chief Technology Officer at Adams and Reese, an Am Law 200 firm with over 200 attorneys in offices throughout the Southern U.S. and in Washington, D.C. As CTO, Bill is responsible for the technological success of the firm, spearheading the technology initiatives within an organization where “collaboration is our watchword up and down our law firm.”

Prior to joining Adams and Reese, Bill served as Director of Network Services & Engineering for Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and Director of Information Systems at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, among others.

Renner is Of Counsel in Hausfeld’s New York office. He is a dynamic litigator, whose practice focuses on pursuing justice for plaintiffs in a wide range of complex cases involving natural resources, environmental justice, civil and human rights, toxic torts, antitrust, consumer protection, and cybersecurity. He also maintains a strong public entity practice, representing state governments and one of the largest water authorities in the United States in environmental litigation.

Recently, Renner served as a key part of Hausfeld’s team in In re: T-Mobile Customer Data Security Breach Litigation. The team secured a $500 million settlement for a class of more than 76 million victims of T-Mobile’s 2021 data breach.

Before joining Hausfeld, Renner worked at a prominent national plaintiffs’ civil litigation firm, where he represented thousands of children who were lead poisoned in the Flint Water Crisis. He was the firm’s primary appellate and complex motion attorney, briefing and arguing a wide array of dispositive, jurisdictional, evidentiary, and Daubert motions in both trial and appellate courts across the country.

Previously, he served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Iowa Attorney General’s Office, where he practiced environmental, administrative, and constitutional law. He advised administrative agencies and litigated cases involving novel issues of constitutional, statutory, and regulatory law, all while maintaining a busy administrative prosecution docket. He began his legal career by serving as the judicial law clerk to the Honorable Mark S. Cady, Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Renner earned his J.D. with highest honors in 2012 from Drake University Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and the Order of the Barristers, served on the Editorial Board of the Drake Law Review, and captained Drake’s environmental law moot court team. In 2017, he held a graduate research fellowship in environmental law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, where he also earned an LL.M. in Environmental Law, summa cum laude.

In 2023, Renner was recognized in the Bold Award category, an award given to those persons who have demonstrated a fearless approach to litigation or problem solving, one of five award categories that make up the Hausfeld Values Awards, an annual recognition program that highlights the achievements of Hausfeld team members based on their significant contributions made and results achieved over the prior calendar year. His tireless work on behalf of plaintiffs was recognized in 2024, when he was named a Rising Star of the Plaintiff’s Bar by the National Law Journal.

Lyzette Wallace is discovery counsel at Cohen Milstein and a member of the Securities Litigation & Investor Protection practice. She assists in discovery and evidentiary-related aspects of litigation and deposition preparation.

Lyzette has extensive discovery experience related to government investigations and litigation involving securities, antitrust, and False Claims Act violations in industry sectors including financial services, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, healthcare, and involving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Food and Drug Administration, and numerous state attorneys general offices.

Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Lyzette worked with a plaintiffs’ firm and a defense firm. As a plaintiffs’ attorney, she represented health care insurers against brand pharmaceutical manufacturers in large, antitrust class actions involving False Claims Act violations, kickbacks, Hatch-Waxman abuses and whistleblower claims. Lyzette was a member of the team that represented a whistleblower against a brand pharmaceutical manufacturer, leading to what was at the time the largest health care fraud settlement in the U.S. Department of Justice’s history. As a defense attorney, she defended clients in internal and external investigations in deferred prosecution agreements, False Claims Act violations, Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act violations, kickbacks and qui tam matters involving the U.S. Department of Justice, the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, Food and Drug Administration, and various state attorneys general offices.

Lyzette is a certified coach through the Coach Training Alliance and founded C3 Coaching, Inc. She is also an accomplished facilitator and speaker and has had the opportunity to give a presentation to a State Department audience that provided successful strategies for managing difficult client relationships and communications.

Prior to practicing law, Lyzette was a senior technical and marketing recruiter at Microsoft, and founded, owned, and operated an education consulting business.

Outside of work, Lyzette is a tennis player, theatergoer, and foodie.

Joan Washburn is the Director of Litigation and Ediscovery Services for Holland & Knight LLP and is based out of the firm’s Boston office. Her primary responsibilities include leading the firm’s efforts in developing and implementing strategies for the management of complex controversy matters with specific emphasis on ediscovery, managed document review and risk management. She joined the firm in 2006.

Michael is a partner in Tonkon Torp’s Litigation Department. He tries complex cases—including a nine-figure jury trial.

Before joining Tonkon Torp, Michael practiced in the Litigation Department at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP for four years. He earned his JD from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Alexander Hamilton Fellow, and Managing Editor of the Columbia Business Law Review. As a law student, he externed for Judge Michael W. Mosman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon.

Michael worked as an analyst at economics consulting firm Analysis Group, Inc., before attending law school. There he performed financial and statistical analyses in support of expert witnesses, whose reports and testimony were used at trial. While earning his undergraduate degree in economics and Spanish, Michael interned at the U.S. embassy’s economics section in Madrid.

Michael is a native Oregonian, raised in Corvallis.