A New Decade of eDiscovery: Fundamental Shifts in Big Data, Case Law, and In-House Demands

Wendy is currently a Senior Paralegal at Dropbox tackling Litigation, Employment disputes, and heading up eDiscovery. Prior to working at Dropbox, she spent 7 years at Gilead Sciences in the Litigation & Investigations department. During her time at Gilead, Wendy focused on both government and internal investigation, litigation, employment disputes, and legal operations. Wendy has been involved in WiE since 2007 and spent many years on the WiE Silicon Valley board.

Russ Grant leads Onna’s business team in the New York City Headquarters. He has spent his career in information technology, starting with strategy consulting for IBM where he ultimately ran an enterprise sales team for the entire IBM software portfolio. Following his time at IBM, Russ started the enterprise business at Dropbox and built a team at Blackboard before joining Onna.



Russ earned two undergraduate degrees in Information Technology and History & Policy and his MBA with a focus on Technology Strategy, all from Carnegie Mellon University. He has also served as a Captain in the United States Army and was published in the Harvard Business Review while deployed overseas.

Robert Brownstone advises clients on: electronic discovery; electronic information management (EIM) and “eWorkplace” policies; retention/destruction policies and protocols; information-security and data privacy; and social-media rewards and risks. Bob collaborates with clients as to computer solutions enabling legal compliance. On a number of those issues he now advises on the impacts of international privacy laws such as the EU GDPR. Both in deposition and at trial, he has handled direct-testimony and cross-examination of expert witnesses as to electronically stored information (ESI) and computer-forensics.

A nationally recognized advisor, thought leader and resource on ESI, Bob writes the IT Law Today blog, has authored over 70 articles on law and technology issues, been cited in more than 30 law review articles and been featured or quoted more than 80 times in various media outlets. He has also delivered more than 400 presentations and chaired over 25 conferences on the following topics: Compliance; Data & Records Retention/Destruction; eDiscovery/ Electronic Information Management; ESI, Privacy and/or Social-Media in the Workplace; Information Security; and Metadata. Since 2009, Bob has taught more than ten Electronic Discovery Law & Process law school courses at the University of San Francisco (USF), Brooklyn, Santa Clara University and University of Puerto Rico schools of law. He has also been a guest lecturer at several other non-law-school universities.?

Tim Anderson is a Managing Director in the FTI Technology segment based in San Francisco. He has over twenty years’ experience in legal technology as a technologist, innovator, and trusted advisor.

Mr. Anderson currently leads the Emerging Digital Solutions Team at FTI responsible for directing data identification, integration, preservation, collection, and analysis strategy and workflows to support clients in an ever changing digital and regulatory landscape. With a deep background in digital forensics, application development, and eDiscovery systems, the Emerging Digital Solutions Team have conducted investigations and collected evidence in dozens of matters involving data in Office 365, G Suite, Slack, Box, Salesforce, Confluence, Workplace by Facebook, and many other cloud based systems.