Gina Florez

Associate

Gina Florez is an associate in Morgan Lewis's eData Practice. eData is an innovative practice founded by Morgan Lewis to address the impact of electronic data on business and legal strategies. Formerly known as Legal Logistics, eData helps clients meet increasingly demanding regulatory and legal requirements with cost-effective prelitigation risk management, eDiscovery consulting, and document review.

We partner with in-house legal, IT, and records-management teams as well as outside technology vendors to apply best practices, inside and outside litigation. We offer start-to-finish litigation management, from litigation holds and data preservation, to negotiations with opposing counsel, to discovery motion practice, depositions, and trial support. We are a national team with both West Coast and East Coast capabilities.

Our emphasis is on giving practical, real-world advice and services to clients. Combining legal experience with technological know-how, eData brings all aspects of electronic data and records management—which traditionally have operated independently—together in one shop. This critical link drives strategic thinking, collaboration, and problem solving. Our industry-leading “best practices” guide clients to meeting eDiscovery obligations in ways that minimize cost and maximize quality.

The eData Practice plays a large role in defending clients in corporate matters, including product liability, mass torts, antitrust, M&A, regulatory, white collar, compliance, construction, insurance coverage, and complex commercial litigation.

Ms. Florez regularly volunteers with Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, which provides pro bono and low cost legal assistance, educational programs, and business counseling to artists and arts and cultural organizations.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Florez worked at a small firm where she provided general counsel to nonprofit organizations, tax-exempt organizations, trade associations, professional societies, and private corporations in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and also held a position at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office.

Ms. Florez earned her LL.M. in intellectual property from George Washington University Law School in 2010. She completed her M.A. in international affairs from American University in 2005, with a joint J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law in 2004. She earned her B.A., cum laude, in criminal justice from Duquesne University in 2000.

Ms. Florez served in the U.S. Air Force Reserves for eight years, where she was deployed to several countries and participated in humanitarian and peace-keeping missions and well-known engagements in Iraq and Kosovo. She earned several military awards, including the Air Reserve Forces Meritorious Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal.

Ms. Florez is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, Florida, and the District of Columbia.