- Serving as coordinating discovery counsel for a global food and beverage company, defending that client in a variety of different complex litigations and regulatory proceedings in various jurisdictions, including series of consumer class actions challenging the labeling and advertising of certain health and nutrition claims.
- Serving as coordinating discovery counsel for one of the nation’s largest managed care organizations, which involves handling discovery across a variety of large and small matters in various jurisdictions throughout the country, including qui tam actions and investigations arising from the Medicare Advantage program.
- Responding to the Federal Trade Commission’s HSR Second Request and related European Commission obligations in one of the largest technology mergers in recent history.
- Serving as lead discovery counsel for a global footwear company in California coordinated proceedings and multidistrict litigation against claims for alleged personal injuries from defective products.
- Serving as the lead lawyer handling discovery for a global pharmaceutical company involved in a series of products liability class actions.
- Negotiating favorable discovery protocols for a major semiconductor company in a trade secret misappropriation matter.
- Representing a national consulting firm before the Department of Justice after the client learned that a software glitch caused a failure to produce responsive documents.
- Serving as one of the lead lawyers handling discovery for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., in its global antitrust dispute with Intel, which involved negotiating precedent-setting discovery stipulations designed to limit the otherwise infinite amount of electronic evidence in possession of the parties and litigating myriad e-discovery issues of first impression arising from Intel’s disclosure of email preservation issues.
- Representing a major telecommunications company in SEC and DOJ investigations involving one of the first large-scale electronic document productions nearly fifteen years ago.
- Successfully obtaining judgment for an investment company in a federal bench trial of an ERISA claim.
- Representing a leading insurance company and its top executives against a long-running malicious prosecution action.
- Representing a global security and information technology company in a federal jury trial involving class and mass tort actions arising from air and groundwater contamination in Southern California.
- Representing WellPoint Health Networks in In Re: Managed Care, a series of multidistrict class actions filed against every major health insurer in the United States.
Admissions
Bar Admissions
- California
Court Admissions
- US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- US District Court, Central and Northern Districts of California
Education
- University of California College of Law, San Francisco, J.D., 1994
- University of California at Berkeley, B.A., 1991
Honors & Awards
- Recognized by Chambers Global for E-Discovery & Information Governance (2016-2025)
- Recognized by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in e-Discovery & Information Governance (2013-2024)
- Recommended by The Legal 500 US for eDiscovery (2019-2020)
- Recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Litigation (2016-2018) for e-discovery work
Professional Activities
Co-Author
- “Preserving Electronic Information: A Practical Approach,” BNA Books (2009)
Author
- “So You Want to Be a Producer: A Successful Document Production Starts with a Great Script and a Solid Cast,” The E-Discovery Standard (LexisNexis/Applied Discovery; Spring Issue 2005)
- The E-Discovery Special Report, Mealey Publications (2006)
Recent Speaking Engagements
- Hot Topics in Electronic Discovery 2022: What Corporate and Outside Counsel Need to Know, Practising Law Institute (May 2022)
- Hot Topics in Electronic Discovery 2019: What Corporate and Outside Counsel Need to Know, Practising Law Institute (September 2019)
- For the Best eDiscovery Results, Pair Human Expertise and Sophisticated Technology, LegalBusinessWorld (May 2018)
- What Corporate and Outside Counsel Need to Know, Practising Law Institute (September 2017)
- A Litigator’s E-Discovery Playbook, Grocery Manufacturers Association Litigation Conference (February 2015)
- Meeting the Continuing Challenge of Preservation, Today’s General Counsel Institute (December 2015)
- The Huron Legal Institute’s 2014 E-Discovery Briefing (December 2014)
- Electronic Discovery Institute 2014: What Corporate and Outside Counsel Need to Know, Practising Law Institute (September 2014)
- Beyond Predictive Coding: Incorporating New Technologies into your E-Discovery Program, LegalTech West Coast (June 2014)
- Electronic Discovery Institute 2013, Practising Law Institute (September 2013)
- e-Discovery Interactive, LegalTech West Coast (May 2013)
- Litigation Holds and the Duty to Preserve-2013: Important Updates for Corporate Counsel and Litigators, for Celesq® AttorneysEd Center (April 2013)
- ESI Preservation and Collection, Strafford Publications ESI Webinars (February 2013)
- Dealing With the Small to Medium Case, E-Discovery for the Corporate Market (December 2012)
- The Future of eDiscovery and its Impact on the Careers of Lawyers, Technologists, Paralegals and Litigation Support Professionals, e-Stet’s Breakfast Series (December 2012)
- 5th Annual Class Action Symposium, Consumer Attorneys of San Diego (September 2012)
- Litigation Continues: Nuts and Bolts of Preservation and Document Review, PLI’s Electronic Discovery Guidance 2012 (September 2012)
- Counsel or iCounsel: Ethical and Practical Considerations on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in E-Discovery, American Bar Association Annual Meeting (August 2012)
- e-Discovery and the Erosion of Work Product Protection, Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat (July 2012)
- Litigation Holds: Digging into the Details, Celesq® AttorneysEd Center Web Cast (January 2012)
- Preservation: The next frontier for potential rule changes, Masters Conference (September 2011)