Prior to joining BLG, Kelly spent over 20 years practicing litigation and providing advice and teaching in the areas of e-discovery, cybersecurity, and privacy. At BLG, she helps the firm enhance and improve upon their skills with AI through various learning programs. She created intensive lawyer trainings—such as Analytics for Attorneys—to help attorneys take advantage of the features in RelativityOne, as well as “Power Users” groups for associates to keep up with new functionality as it’s released. In 2011, Canadian Lawyer Magazine recognized Kelly as one of “Canada’s 25 Most Influential Lawyers.” Every year since 2015, Kelly been acknowledged by Who’s Who Legal as one of Canada’s leading e-discovery lawyers.

 

As a Relativity Master and a Relativity Certified Trainer, Adrian brings knowledge and education to every customer interaction. Together with his team, he uses automation, scalable services, and the platform’s extensibility to transform and streamline the end user experience—and ultimately encourage clients to leverage the platform even further.

He and his team have also developed a program to help new users upskill on Relativity, ensuring that they are able to transfer e-discovery knowledge they already have with ease. Additionally, Adrian has also helped clients use RelativityOne for processes beyond e-discovery, including intellectual property investigations, data room management, as well as land right claims and environmental matters as part of the Justice for Change program.

Adrian received the Browning Marean Litigation Support Scholarship to attend ILTA and was also listed on the ILTA’s 2020 “Young Professionals to Watch” list for his work in the e-discovery community.

 

Lauren is a strategic leader with a proven track record of creating and implementing client-centric solutions and revenue growth. She focuses on a people-forward approach to team building and mentors employees for superior performance and morale. In educating future leaders, Lauren focuses on the often intangible but impactful soft skills, helping her employees and colleagues focus on the items that are not always taught and sometimes seldom seen.

 

Throughout her career, Farrah has been a staunch advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, driving DEI initiatives internally and in the industry at large. As a woman in the law and mom of two young girls, Farrah has a deeply personal commitment to DEI. She dedicates her time, energy, and purchasing power to support DEI in all forms, including promoting gender parity.

At Marsh McLennan, Farrah sits on the Steering Committee for the Social Justice & Diversity task force, where one of her goals is to create more just outcomes in hiring and pay parity through legal purchasing decisions. She is driving a beta of a new tool to transform the industry’s approach to hiring and promoting diverse talent within law firms.

Farrah takes on many leadership roles to benefit the greater good and promote DEI in legal education, including sitting on the boards of directors for leading industry educational groups like CLOC and the College of Law Practice Management, as well as advisory boards for Legalweek and EDRM.

 

Inés is a dedicated technology, privacy, governance, and security practitioner. She encourages customers to think beyond their present-day data difficulties, proactively creating the opportunity to discover new and useful solutions that will address challenges across their e-discovery, security, and governance needs.

Inés played a key part in the rollout of FTI Technology’s Privacy Breach Response solutions, and she is currently helping to drive and lead a growing team of digital risk experts within FTI Technology’s practice in Ireland. Inés is also involved as a member and thought leader with several industry associations and holds OneTrust Certified Professional, CIPP/E, CIPM, Relativity Expert, and Prince2 Practitioner certifications. Inés was the recipient of the 2019 “Security Leader” award by the Women in Tech Awards, organized by the Dublin Tech Summit.

 

Throughout her career in private practice, at the Department of Justice, and now at Meta, Allison has been intentional and consistent in identifying growth opportunities for women and developing women into successful leaders in the profession. At Meta, Allison has built a diverse and highly technical team of data scientists that’s 50 percent female—a rare feat in technology, let alone in Silicon Valley.

Alison is always looking for ways to help the next generation of women leaders and specialists thrive. Upon entering Silicon Valley, she advanced qualified women—often minority women—into roles of leadership and recognition. Additionally, Alison runs Manager Circles at Meta to help support women leaders across the organization. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she also established Leadership Circles to provide mothers—who were leaving the workforce at rapid rates—a safe space to be seen and heard.

2022 Winner
Best Innovation: Enterprise

eMerge Xtractor leverages machine learning to provide an automated solution within Relativity to extract specific text from form documents (e.g. invoices, employment forms, medical records, contracts) and save the text to fields within Relativity where the information can be filtered, sorted and analyzed.  Xtractor users can choose from a library of existing form models or train a new model. Xtractor is particularly helpful for matters involving hundreds or even thousands of similar forms because the extraction can be completed automatically in a fraction of the time it would take to do it manually.

2022 Winner
Best Innovation: Solution Provider

Amplify allows a user to initiate processes (such as index builds, processing, etc.) and tracks all inputs and outputs of those processes. Images, auto-classifies and allows for mass tagging of images enabling users to easily search and tag  different image types such as people, schematics, handwritten documents, etc.