Jennifer Mott Williams

Jennifer remains abreast of the ever-changing technological landscape, assisting clients with their assessments and implementations of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and drafting AI policies and procedures to minimize legal risks associated with an AI rollout. Recognizing that IG is vital to an organization’s compliance efforts, Jennifer works closely with multiple Fortune 500 companies to implement best practices for IG, including data privacy, data retention and disposition, and strategies to protect key information assets.

Jennifer routinely advises clients on IG and ediscovery from ever-changing collaborative tools, cloud technologies, mobile devices, applications, and social media platforms. She assists clients in crafting and revising compliance and monitoring procedures to address the unique challenges use of such technologies can create.

Jennifer assists clients with assessing and refining their ediscovery practices to minimize risks and ensure that clients can defensibly address their discovery obligations.

When litigation arises, Jennifer consistently collaborates with clients and negotiates with opposing parties to ensure that the scope of discovery is reasonable and proportional to matters. She frequently participates in Rule 26(f) conferences and negotiates electronically stored information (ESI) protocol provisions and protective orders to address complex issues associated with changing technologies, cross-border privacy regulations, production specifications, FRE 502(d) orders, and privilege logging.

Jennifer advises clients on end-to-end discovery processes, including litigation holds and preservation, ESI protocols, collection strategies, data culling and iterative search-term processes, the overall document review (including the use of TAR), and the production process. She further assists with discovery motion practices and has successfully defended clients’ discovery practices both in submissions on the pleadings and in hearings.

Jennifer currently serves as the ediscovery and IG advisor to one of the largest pharmaceutical companies. She further has assisted biotechnology and energy companies with the creation of their ediscovery workflows and processes. Jennifer also currently serves as national discovery coordinating counsel for a large Fortune 500 financial services company and serves as the ediscovery liaison for a number of clients in a variety of jurisdictions. Jennifer previously served as the national ediscovery coordinating counsel for several similar class actions in which she worked with in-house and outside counsel from multiple jurisdictions.

Jennifer frequently speaks on AI, IG, ediscovery, and data privacy issues.