In 2020, Alicia built Taft Discovery from the ground up due to the increasing need for law firms to have end-to-end e-discovery practices. In her ongoing quest for technology’s wide-sweeping acceptance by the courts, Alicia argued for and won the use of technology-assisted review (TAR) and Relativity’s active learning workflow in Livingston v. City of Chicago, leading her to be a frequent presenter on TAR and industry innovation. Alicia routinely teams up with other departments and firms to find creative solutions to both unique and routine problems and to answer the transformative question, “What else is possible?” At Taft, Alicia cross-collaborated with several departments to develop and take to market a first-of-its-kind, patent-pending LIBOR remediation solution.

Siva joined USC to implement an e-discovery program and assist the university in responding to legal and regulatory requests in an efficient and cost-effective manner. To stay updated on the latest e-discovery trends, Siva regularly attends webinars and builds his network in the forensics and e-discovery spaces. Because he works at one of the world’s oldest and largest research universities, Siva handles every type of data source available. Along with his team, Siva has implemented a fully automated e-discovery process with very minimal human effort with tools like RelativityOne.

Chris prioritizes making his professional and personal spaces a reflection of the world. He has mentored at least two students or younger practitioners with diverse backgrounds every year since law school, in addition to serving as an active member of Baker Hughes’s African American employee resource group. He also hosts a podcast, Tales of the Tribunal, which aims to make international dispute resolution more inclusive and connected. He is a member of the board advisors of the Columbia, South Carolina Youth Corps and works to develop the next generation of professionals from the Midlands of South Carolina. For the South Carolina Judicial Department, Chris assisted in the design and made contributions to Black History Month celebrations. Additionally, Chris has worked with the University of South Carolina Black Alumni Association to host programs to call for social justice, as well as leads an effort with former University of South Carolina Black athletes to remove statues and rename buildings that honored racist and dishonored figures from the state’s history.

In addition to his role at vdiscovery, Nikolai is the owner of HashtagLegal, a programming initiative that brings ideas from top minds in litigation support to tools that everyone can use. Nikolai creates video content that covers a range of topics related to e-discovery, such as whether someone should perform targeted data collections to ways to have fun on E-Discovery Day. Nikolai earned his RCA in May 2011 and has innovated on Relativity, building an application that facilitates text message review. This tool allows user to generate text message conversations for production based on the text messages that clients wanted to produce.

Starting her e-discovery career in 2007, Heena currently runs a department of hundreds of attorneys in India. She has excelled in her role as a female leader passionately working to address gender norms. She has open conversations with her female team members to pursue their dreams, ensuring that colleagues and apprentices have the necessary tools to perform their jobs. Because e-discovery is a niche industry, Heena educates the next generation of legal professionals in India by providing managers and team members personalized, substantive platform training exercises in addition to the core subject matter, including communications with clients and team management. Heena attends law school campuses each year to introduce students to e-discovery, coaches and mentors groups of potential candidates and future leaders in the industry, and hosts workshops amongst the many roles she has held throughout her career.

 

Briordy serves as director & senior counsel in e-discovery for Boehringer Ingelheim USA. He joined the company in June of 2018 where he focuses on directing Boehringer’s e-discovery workflows, systems, and legal strategy. Briordy also works closely with Boehringer’s data privacy officers to ensure compliance with US data privacy laws and cross-border transfers of data subject to the GDPR.