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

Daniel Lim serves as Chief of the E-Discovery Office at the Department of Justice, Civil Division. Mr. Lim supervises a team of subject matter experts who provide legal, strategic, and project management advice to Civil Division trial teams on the lifecycle of information governance and electronic discovery issues. Mr. Lim advises on the emerging law governing electronic discovery, best practices for working with novel data sources, and how to leverage sophisticated technologies to effectively comply with discovery obligations. He also advises federal agencies on the best practices for implementing defensible preservation policies and electronic discovery workflows.

Prior to joining the Civil Division, Mr. Lim served as Deputy Director and Senior Counsel at the E-Discovery Group of the New York City Law Department. Mr. Lim began his legal career in private practice, representing corporate and individual clients in False Claims Act cases and government investigations.

Mr. Lim is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School and holds a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Law from Binghamton University, State University of New York.

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 the Chief Legal Innovation Counsel (CLIC) at Marsh & McLennan, where she makes things…click. Farrah founded and leads the company’s Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) team, which includes the LIT innovation lab and the legal data discovery program.

Farrah has a long history of building and leading in-house and law firm teams to solve business challenges, create enterprise value and reduce risk. Previously, Farrah was GE’s global discovery counsel, where she served as the large, diverse conglomerate’s first dedicated legal expert on discovery strategy and policy. Farrah created and led the GE Discovery Center of Excellence and reinvented GE’s approach to global discovery and data management to drive dramatic savings, efficiencies and risk reduction. Prior to joining GE, Farrah was a litigator in the New York office of Gibson Dunn, where she was a founder and leader of the firm’s global electronic discovery practice group.

Recent accolades for Farrah include being named a Thought Leader by Corporate Counsel (Women, Influence & Power), a Women of Legal Tech inductee by the ABA’s LTRC (Legal Technology Research Center), a member of the Legal 500 GC Powerlist (US), and a fellow in the College of Law Practice Management. Farrah is a lifelong New Yorker and double-NYU grad: NYU College of Arts & Science (B.A., summa cum laude) and NYU School of Law (J.D.).