Scott A. Milner
Scott A. Milner leads Morgan Lewis’s global data analytics and governance practice. For more than 20 years, Scott has helped clients navigate complex data and technology issues arising in discovery, investigations, due diligence, and privacy matters. He counsels clients on strategic eDiscovery management, litigation readiness, and information governance, including artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technology adoption and governance. Scott leads a multidisciplinary team delivering services through a distinctive combination of legal, technical, and project management capabilities while helping shape the practice’s evolving service offerings.
Scott brings a practical perspective to information governance and discovery readiness shaped by decades of advising clients at the intersection of law, technology, and data. Working closely with in-house legal, compliance, IT, and other business stakeholders, he helps establish information governance policies and data retention, preservation, and disposition protocols designed to reduce risk and strengthen organizational readiness for litigation and investigations.
Scott also advises on AI adoption and governance, helping clients evaluate AI use cases across legal and business functions. He works with clients to develop and implement policies, quality control, validation, and oversight frameworks that address privilege, confidentiality, disclosure, and other legal and operational considerations associated with generative AI.
As discovery counsel, Scott develops defensible strategies for data identification, preservation, collection, review, and production, and advocates for those approaches in negotiations with opposing counsel, regulators, and courts. An early adopter of technology-assisted review (TAR), he designs scalable workflows that leverage analytics and AI, including generative AI, to reduce discovery costs, enhance quality control, and support informed decision-making throughout the discovery process. Scott also advises clients on data-intensive matters beyond traditional eDiscovery, including data incident response, regulatory inquiries, data subject access requests (DSAR), due diligence, and large-scale contract review and analysis.
Ranked Band 1 in Chambers for eDiscovery and information governance, Scott speaks on topics ranging from metadata preservation and AI use and governance to the future of legal service delivery. He is a founding member of Legal Data Intelligence, an industry framework for managing modern legal data, and has been recognized as an AI Visionary by Relativity and a Legal Technology Trailblazer by The National Law Journal.
