Making the Case for In-House eDiscovery

Jennifer is a technologist focused on strategy, customer experience, workflow, process improvement, and product in the legal tech industry. She has worked in software and technology for over a decade, and holds an M.A. in Strategic Communication. She currently leads Solutions Engineering at Zapproved, where she ensures product feature functionality and technical capabilities are designed and implemented in ways that solve real world problems. Zapproved specializes in the corporate in house software, enabling legal team ediscovery preparedness through technology and process improvement.

Jennifer is a speaker and content contributor on a variety of data preservation and ediscovery issues, including as a Co-Chair of the PREX Conference.

Marla brings over 30 years’ expertise to her role as general counsel. She is a respected attorney, strategic advisor, and thought leader who speaks regularly on legal technology, electronic discovery, and information governance issues. Marla spent 22 years practicing law at the prestigious international firm, Jones Day, specializing in the discovery phase of litigation. She also served as associate general counsel for Goldman Sachs for 11 years where she led the firm’s global eDiscovery practice and focused on complex commercial and securities litigation and regulatory investigations.

Marla’s expertise also includes advising on issues relating to information governance as well as the deployment of new technologies. Marla earned a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Duke University, graduated magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law, where she earned her Juris Doctor, and is licensed to practice law in the state of New York.

Julie Richer is Legal Technology Program Manager at American Electric Power, where she is responsible for matter discovery as well as managing the legal operations team. Prior to transferring to legal in 2008, she spent 10 years in AEP’s IT Department.