Meeting the Challenges of Information Governance in the Cloud

Lineal Services, a global AI-enabled legal data services organisation, announced today that Jeanne Somma has joined the company as Chief Legal Officer and Head of Managed Review. As Lineal continues to expand its technology forward offerings globally, Somma joins to lead the expansion of the company’s technology-driven managed review program.

For over a decade Somma has specialized in workflow design and technology application in the review process. Throughout her career, Somma focused on consulting with clients to create efficient, defensible, and technology-driven review workflows. She is an expert voice in the industry on eDiscovery best practices and law and brings with her the unique perspective of a seasoned practitioner who has also sat in her client’s seat as general counsel.

Prior to joining Lineal Somma served as the Legal Insights Executive and General Counsel of ayfie Inc., where she served as the company’s legal industry subject matter expert and consulted with clients on ayfie’s review and search workflow applications. She is also an adjunct professor teaching Legal Tech, Legal Operations, and the Business of Law at New York Law School.

Rajan Gupta is the Head of Global Legal Technology at Facebook.

Stephanie Corey is a co-founder of UpLevel Ops, a consulting firm specializing in providing services for in-house legal departments and law firms. UpLevel Ops provides a complete range of Legal Operations support, including IT solutions, Finance and Budget guidance, Talent Management and Development, Benchmarking, Best Practices and Metrics, and Outside Counsel Selection and Management.

Stephanie also founded and is a former executive member of the leading legal operations trade organization CLOC, Corporate Legal Operations Consortium. She is a widely respected veteran in the Legal Ops field.

Most recently, Stephanie has served as the Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Legal Operations at Flex, the second largest manufacturing company in the world. She has spent the better part of her career providing value-added services to Legal Departments, including building and deploying critical infrastructure to enable them to meet their business priorities. Her areas of expertise include Information Technology, System Implementations, Process Analysis and Improvements, Finance, Communications and Administration.

Stephanie began her career at Merrill Lynch in Pennsylvania, and after relocating to California, she worked at Bailard, Biehl and Kaiser, an investment firm in Foster City. Once she decided to move into Corporate Finance, Stephanie took a position under the CFO, managing the Finance and Accounting Department at Provident Funding Mortgage Bank.

She later moved to Hewlett-Packard, where she was employed for eleven years as the head Legal Operations Manager, running a large IT and Finance Department. Her most recent role at HP was Chief of Staff to the General Counsel, responsible for managing the daily operations of the Legal Department, working closely with the General Counsel and his reports to develop the strategy for the delivery of technology, finance and administrative solutions.

Stephanie holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Lehigh University, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Wilkes University.