Surviving the App-ocolypse - eDiscovery in an Age of Atypical Data

Eric Boyd is the Firm's Director of Litigation Support. He has over 17 years of experience with Electronically Stored Information (ESI), E-Discovery, computer forensics, litigation support and trial presentation. Additionally, he works across the Firm with vendors and clients on pricing, and helps clients coordinate legal holds internally and devise forensic collection plans. Eric has been with the Firm since 2010 and has been the Director of our Litigation & E-Discovery Group since 2014.

Catherine “Cat” Casey, Chief Growth Officer, Reveal Cat Casey is the Chief Growth Officer of Reveal, the leading cloud-based AI-powered legal technology company, where she spearheads development and strategy for its advanced legal technology solutions. She is a frequent keynote speaker and outspoken advocate of legal professionals embracing technology to deliver better legal outcomes. Casey has over a decade and a half of experience assisting clients with complex ediscovery and forensic needs that arise from litigation, expansive regulation, and complex contractual relationships.

Before joining Reveal, Casey was the Chief Innovation Officer of DISCO, and director of Global Practice Support for Gibson Dunn, based out of their New York office. She led a global team comprising experienced practitioners in the areas of electronic discovery, data privacy, and information governance. Prior to that, Casey was a leader in the Forensic Technology Practice for PwC. Prior to that Casey built out the antitrust forensic technology practice and served as the national subject matter expert on ediscovery for KPMG.

Casey has an A.L.B. from Harvard University and attended Pepperdine School of Law.

As a member of the firm’s eDiscovery & Information Governance practice group, Bobby develops innovative, cost-effective and defensible strategies for the preservation, collection, review, and production of electronically stored information. He advises clients on issues related to eDiscovery preparedness, planning, and execution as well as information privacy and data security. Bobby regularly serves as lead discovery counsel on large-scale matters and manages all aspects of national and international eDiscovery. His extensive experience includes counseling financial institution clients on the unique eDiscovery challenges they face in high-exposure matters, as well as leading training on eDiscovery platforms and workflows and providing advice on eDiscovery vendor management and budgeting. Bobby serves as outside eDiscovery counsel and trusted advisor to Fortune 500 clients and in this role provides counseling and guidance in connection with legally defensible and standardized company-wide discovery practices.

Bobby is a globally recognized thought leader on the application of artificial intelligence and analytics to the practice of law and was nominated for Relativity and Text IQ’s “AI Catalyst Award” in 2021. In 2022, Relativity named him an AI visionary for spearheading the adoption of artificial intelligence in legal practice. Bobby is also a frequent speaker and author on eDiscovery, information governance, data security and other legal technology topics. He has been published and quoted in numerous legal and eDiscovery publications and information outlets, including ALM’s Business Crimes Bulletin, Cybersecurity Law & Strategy Newsletter, ABA Journal, Legaltech News, ABA’s Sound Advice Podcast, ABA’s Class Action & Derivative Newsletter, ABA Law and Practice Today, and Thomson Reuters Institute Podcast.

Prior to joining Winston, Bobby served as Of Counsel and Co-Leader of the Information Governance and eDiscovery Practice at an Am Law 200 firm. He has also worked as a senior discovery consultant for multiple top-tier eDiscovery service providers. During law school, Bobby served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Blanche M. Manning of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Prior to his legal career, Bobby acquired nearly five years of technical experience in the areas of network engineering, firewall administration, technology consulting, and computer programming. A true “techno lawyer,” Bobby’s technology experience dates back to his first job in college building and configuring Novell NetWare and Windows NT applications and file servers.

Bobby is a member of the International Legal Technology Association, American Bar Association: Section of Litigation and Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production. He has multiple computer certifications, including the CompTIA A computer hardware certification.

Rose Jones is King & Spalding’s Director of e-Discovery Project Management and Client Services. Her practice focuses on e-discovery management including the development of standard protocols for the various phases of the discovery process. She is a senior member of King & Spalding’s Discovery Center and acts as National Discovery Counsel for large corporations. Ms. Jones provides advice and counsel prior to beginning document review to limit the scope and cost of the document review, including protocols/best practices and vendor selection and contract negotiations, as well as early case assessment, key word development and validation. She works closely with vendors to ensure the consistency and quality of the document review process and work product by developing customized work flow and document organization. Using standard privilege review and logging protocols, Ms. Jones manages the preparation of defensible and cost-effective privilege logs.

Ms. Jones has over a decade of experience over the entire spectrum of the e-discovery process, from document collection to the defense of privilege logs, and all steps in between. She has managed the e-discovery process in a wide variety of matters, including pharmaceutical, environmental, product liability, mass tort, and intellectual property litigation, as well as various internal investigations and governmental investigations, including Congressional Committees, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), various State Attorneys General, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), United States Department of Justice (US DOJ), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

Ms. Jones received her J.D. degree from Georgia State College of Law in 2002. She graduated, with honors, from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999 with a B.S. degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering. Ms. Jones is admitted to practice in Georgia and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She is a member of the State Bar of Georgia. Ms. Jones received the Pro Bono Service Award in 2006.

Dave Deppe is the CEO and founder of Repario Data- the direct result of a targeted series of acquisitions in the eDiscovery space. The companies now known as Repario make up some of the oldest, most prestigious thought and service in the industry. He has now been a co-founder of four separate eDiscovery companies- Omaha Legal, Focus Legal Solutions, UnitedLex, and Repario Data. In each of these roles he has been responsible for the international management of Litigation Services, Investigations and Cyber Risk Solutions. He has led a global team of more than 2000 legal professionals, worked closely with governmental agencies, top-50 national law firms, and Global 500 companies, all while participating as an Electronic Discovery Expert helping clients in matters involving the EPA, U.S. DOJ, FTC, DHHS and SEC. His experience has given him the unusual ability to mesh the legal and regulatory requirements of electronic discovery with practical, efficient technological solutions.