Jennifer Mott Williams

Of Counsel

Houston Phone +1.713.890.5788 Fax +1.713.890.5001

1000 Louisiana St., Suite 4000//Houston, TX 77002-5006//United States

Jennifer Mott Williams helps clients develop and implement efficient ways to manage increasingly challenging ediscovery processes and information governance. With more than two decades of experience, she provides practical, real-world advice on how to handle the evolving technological landscape and associated legal obligations.

Jennifer routinely advises clients on information governance and ediscovery from ever-changing collaborative tools, cloud technologies, mobile devices, applications, and social media platforms. She works closely with a number of Fortune 500 companies to draft policies and procedures and implement best practices for information governance, including data privacy, security, retention and disposition, and protection of key information assets. 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 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 her clients’ discovery practices both in submissions on the pleadings and in hearings.

Jennifer currently serves as the ediscovery and information governance 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 ediscovery and data privacy issues.