The Future for ALSPs is Now: How Combined Service/Technology Solutions Build Scale and Leverage Emerging Technologies

As a co-founder and COO/CFO of eBrevia, Adam Nguyen is responsible for the company’s strategy, product development, and finance, as well as its daily operation. Adam’s experience extends to founding Ivy Link, an education advisory firm with clients in the US, Europe, and Middle East, and serving as the Chief-of-Staff and Legal Officer of Vantage Properties, a 350-person real estate investment and management firm. In addition to operational management, finance and in-house legal experience, Adam has practiced law at the global law firms of Paul, Weiss and Shearman & Sterling, where he focused on private equity, hedge fund formation, and mergers and acquisitions — as well as at AQR Capital Management, a multi-asset investment management firm, where he helped to expand the firm’s products and managed accounts. He was a law clerk to the Hon. Judge Faith Hochberg, US District Court, NJ.

Adam holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Columbia and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. He has also studied at the University of California, Berkeley as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Public Policy and International Affairs, and at the University College London.

Jeffrey Sharer is co-chair of Akerman's Data Law Practice. He concentrates his practice in the increasingly business-critical area of information law. His practice encompasses information governance, electronic discovery, and privacy and data protection. Jeffrey helps clients mitigate risk, reduce cost, and create business value through sound, end-to-end governance of enterprise data. Jeffrey's deep understanding of both law and technology helps clients proactively meet the legal, compliance, and other challenges associated with the "digital deluge." Jeffrey advises clients on the development and implementation of records retention policies and schedules, litigation preparedness and discovery strategy, defensible disposition of email and other electronic and hard copy information, and "e-policies" such as "bring your own device," social media, information classification, and data privacy. Jeffrey also is a leading proponent of "collaborative disaggregation" of legal services, proactively partnering with alternative service providers and leveraging technology such as "legal expert systems" - such as the Akerman Data Law Center - and other forms of artificial intelligence to meet clients' needs better, faster, and at lower cost than could be achieved under traditional models based directly or indirectly on billable hours.

In the dispute context, Jeffrey advises and advocates for clients at all stages of the discovery lifecycle, from preservation through production, in litigation and regulatory matters, and internal and governmental investigations. Jeffrey has significant experience with design, implementation, negotiation, and litigation of e-discovery best practices. He is at the forefront of using predictive coding and other analytic technologies in discovery to help clients save time and costs, and improve defensibility of process. Jeffrey represents clients across a broad range of industries, including insurance, telecommunications, retail, financial services, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, consumer products, professional services, and energy.

Dave Curran is Global Director Risk & Compliance with Thomson Reuters and works with our major clients to help address and mitigate systemic regulatory, compliance, risk and related challenges. Dave is a senior executive and lawyer who has deep experience at the intersection of business, law, technology, compliance and risk management, and preparedness. He has been on all sides of regulatory change – as General Counsel/Chief Compliance Officer, advisor, counselor and technology services provider – and has helped many companies navigate the complex waters of regulatory change through technology-driven process improvements. Dave was most recently CEO and Founder of Risk Readiness Corporation, a technology company focused on reputational risk, and EVP Business & Legal Affairs at IntraLinks, Inc. Dave has held senior positions at Integrity Interactive Corporation (compliance/ethics e-Learning) as well as senior legal and compliance roles at Campbell Soup Company, Reader’s Digest and Vertis, Inc.