New Frontiers for International e-Discovery

Steve Couling is the Vice President of International at Relativity.

Prior to joining Relativity, he was the VP of International at kCura starting in 2012 as Director of International Sales. In this role, he was responsible for managing international sales outside of North America and Canada, which included corporations, law firms, and government agencies with on-premises installations of Relativity.

Steve received a bachelor’s degree in architecture and building management from Nottingham Trent University.

Davin Teo is a Managing Director and leads the Forensic Technology team within Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations in Hong Kong. Mr. Teo specialises in digital investigations and electronic discovery matters. His primary areas of expertise are fraud investigations, electronic discovery matters, misconduct investigations, intellectual property theft investigations, dispute matters and data recovery requests. With more than 15 years of forensic technology experience and three years prior in accountancy, Mr. Teo has provided consultancy services in the field of forensic technology, electronic discovery and IT audit to numerous national and international corporations, government bodies and regulators.

Karyn's principal area of practice is complex commercial disputes and asset recovery. She is listed by Best Lawyers 2015 in the practice area of Financial Institutions.

Karyn has in depth knowledge of working with counsel in other jurisdictions, including civil law countries, as lead counsel, and securing orders and necessary sanctions in support of asset tracing including injunctions, the appointment of receivers and liquidators, findings of contempt of court, freezing orders and disclosure orders. She has advised in relation to a successful application to overturn a personal bankruptcy on grounds of COMI, and in relation to the successful denial of discharge of a debtor in US bankruptcy proceedings.

Karyn is also a trusted adviser on regulatory and criminal investigations and inquiries, particularly in the financial services sector and anti-corruption law. Karyn is well known as an e-discovery specialist and recently secured the first High Court approval for the use of Technology Assisted Review in inter party discovery.

Specialising in media law since qualifying, Karyn oversees a team of media defence specialists and is recognised as a Leading Individual in media and telecoms by Legal 500 2015.

David Horrigan is Relativity’s discovery counsel and legal content director. An attorney, law school guest lecturer, e-discovery industry analyst, and award-winning journalist, David has served as counsel at the Entertainment Software Association, reporter and assistant editor at The National Law Journal, and analyst and counsel at 451 Research. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Legaltech News and the Data Law Board of Advisors at the Yeshiva University Cardozo Law School.

David holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida, and he studied international law at Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands. He is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia.

Chris Dale qualified as an English solicitor in 1980 after reading History at Oxford. He was a litigation partner in London and then a litigation software developer and litigation support consultant before turning to commentary on electronic disclosure / discovery.

He runs the eDisclosure Information Project which disseminates information about the court rules, the problems, and the technology to lawyers and their clients, to judges, and to suppliers. He was a member of Senior Master Whitaker's Working Party which drafted the 2010 eDisclosure Practice Direction and Electronic Documents Questionnaire.

He writes an authoritative and objective web site and blog on the subject and is a well-known speaker and commentator in the UK, the US and any jurisdiction which requires electronic discovery of documents.