Global Investigations and Multilingual Data - How to Manage the Risks Presented by Multilingual Datasets

niel has more than 20 years of experience as a litigation attorney and consultant on legal issues relating to digital information. He has handled complex commercial litigation in a wide range of areas, including breach-of-contract litigation involving multimillion-dollar asset purchase agreements, arbitrations relating to agreements for the production of petrochemicals, class actions related to motor vehicle financing, product liability lawsuits, injunctive actions to enforce covenant-not-to-compete agreements, responses to Federal Trade Commission enforcement actions and trials involving international patent disputes.

Daniel has also represented major energy clients in government investigations and litigation involving power, natural gas and natural gas liquids trading activities, including inquiries from the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Public Utility Commission of Texas. He has worked on state and federal appeals as well as submissions to the Texas Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court.

Daniel previously served as vice president and deputy general counsel for Guidance Software, Inc., where he managed a team of attorneys responsible for consulting with commercial and public sector organizations on eDiscovery, data security and records management initiatives. Daniel worked closely with Fortune 500 companies and major government entities to address compliance and discovery challenges relating to the management of digital information.

As part of Shook’s Data and Discovery Strategies Practice, Daniel advises clients on legal issues involving electronic information, including eDiscovery, information governance, data privacy, data security and records management. He has been a senior advisor for the E-Discovery Institute (EDI) and has served as a Council Member for the State Bar of Texas Computer and Technology Section. Daniel lectures and publishes in numerous forums on litigation, eDiscovery, records management, privacy and data security.

Andrea L. D'Ambra is a partner in the New York office, where she focuses on e-discovery, information management, data privacy and cross border discovery.

Throughout Andrea's legal career, she has developed and implemented cutting-edge technological solutions for addressing her client's electronic discovery and information governance challenges. Andrea's technical background helps her bridge the gap between legal requirements and technical realities and allows her to work effectively with her clients' IT personnel.

At a time when costs savings are critical to a company's ongoing success, Andrea has helped many clients find less expensive ways to comply with their discovery obligations and appropriately limit the scope of discovery.

Andrea counsels clients on preservation and data management issues, and has drafted information governance and records management policies for a number of multi-national companies. In addition to counselling, she has assisted clients in navigating foreign data privacy laws while complying with U.S. discovery obligations. Andrea also has presented at and moderated various Continuing Legal Education programs on patent, copyright and e-discovery issues, and has written on various e-discovery topics.

Her intellectual property experience includes patent, trademark, copyright litigation for both corporations and individual clients.

Andrea served for over seven years as an officer in the United States Navy. Her diverse Naval experience includes serving as an action officer for high-profile investigations within the Bureau of Naval Personnel and managing the administrative and legal issues of the Navy's computer network defense command.

Andrea also is an adjunct professor of law at Temple and William and Mary Law Schools where she teaches classes on Electronic Discovery.

Mark is responsible for the Divergent Sales Team and provides strategic direction for channel management and partnerships. He has played a pioneering role in the growth of the global language services and technology industry and brings to his current position over 14 years of experience building successful global teams and providing oversight and direction to achieve consistent, repeatable revenue. Having lived, worked and studied in Latin America, Asia, and Europe, Mark has firsthand knowledge of the array of issues that confront businesses and individuals in the international marketplace. He successfully leverages this knowledge to guide the multilingual strategies of his global clients.

Prior to joining Divergent, Mark spent over a decade as a top revenue generator and sales manager at Translations.com, where he sourced, team-led and closed many of their largest global enterprise relationships. Mark left Translations.com to lead the enterprise sales efforts at Smartling, a SaaS software provider that offers an industry-leading translation management platform. During his tenure there, Smartling doubled in size and is now widely regarded as an emerging leader in localization management technology. Mark brings to Divergent a unique combination of services and software sales and sales management experience and a proven track record on both fronts.

He holds a BA in Spanish from Cal State Humboldt and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Arielle Warshall Katz represents corporate executives, boards of directors, and public and private companies in regulatory and criminal investigations, trials, and related proceedings involving the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, FINRA, and other regulatory agencies. She has advised clients in the United States and abroad in many sensitive and high-profile cases involving a wide range of legal and compliance matters, including allegations of securities and accounting fraud, insider trading, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and unfair business practices. Ms. Katz frequently conducts corporate internal investigations, including investigations involving whistleblower complaints, retaliation claims, and violations of internal policies and procedures and criminal and civil regulatory laws.

Ms. Katz is also a member of the firm’s Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection Group and counsels clients on cybersecurity risks and incident response. Ms. Katz was recently part of the trial team representing a director of a global investment firm in a high-profile monthlong insider trading jury trial in the Southern District of New York. Some of her other notable representations include defending the head of a multibillion-dollar investment fund indicted on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, representing members of the audit committee of a large financial institution in an SEC investigation involving accounting irregularities, representing the chief executive officer of a broker-dealer in a FINRA arbitration, and defending financial services firms in investigations by the SEC and CFPB and in class action litigation.

Ms. Katz’s work on behalf of clients also includes litigating complex business matters in federal and state courts and in arbitrations, with particular emphasis on cost-effective discovery, fact development and trial work. She counsels and works with clients on developing company policies and employee training, and she has worked in collaboration with auditors and disclosure counsel. She regularly advises clients on data collection and discovery, including the use of predictive coding and technology-assisted review, and has successfully argued at discovery conferences in federal court. Ms. Katz also has extensive experience with international discovery matters involving a number of foreign jurisdictions, including Argentina, Brazil, the Cayman Islands, Italy, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

Ms. Katz is an active participant in the firm’s pro bono practice. In 2010, she was awarded The Legal Aid Society’s “Pro Bono Publico” Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Service. She participated in The Legal Aid Society Criminal Defense Pro Bono Project, where she served as lead counsel in a wide array of state criminal matters and handled arraignments, court appearances, motions and pleas.

Ms. Katz currently serves as the Chair of business development and networking programs for the firm’s Women’s Initiative Committee.

New York Super Lawyers recognized Ms. Katz as a Rising Star from 2014 through 2016 and as one of its Top Women Attorneys in New York in 2014 and 2015.

Farrah Pepper is Executive Counsel for Discovery at GE, where she serves as the company’s dedicated legal expert on discovery strategy and policy.

Ms. Pepper is an active member of The Sedona Conference? and sits on the advisory boards of Law Technology News (LTN) and LegalTech. Before joining GE, Ms. Pepper was of counsel in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she was Vice Chair and a founder of the firm’s Electronic Discovery and Information Law Practice Group.