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Jennifer Mott Williams

Of Counsel

jennifer.williams@morganlewis.com

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 electronic discovery processes. She advises clients on end-to-end discovery processes, including litigation holds and preservation, ESI protocols, collection strategies, data culling and iterative search term processes, and the overall document review and production process. Jennifer works closely with clients to implement best practices for information governance, including data privacy, data retention and disposition, and strategies to protect key information assets.

Previously, Jennifer was the national ediscovery coordinating counsel for several similar class actions, in which she worked with in-house and outside counsel from multiple jurisdictions. She currently serves as the lead lawyer serving as national discovery coordinating counsel for a large Fortune 500 financial services company. She also serves as the ediscovery liaison for a number of clients in a variety of jurisdictions.

Awards and Affiliations

Recipient, Yellow Belt, Legal Lean Sigma®

Admissions

  • Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Education

  • University of Texas School of Law, 2000, J.D., With Honors
  • University of Virginia, 1997, B.S., With Distinction

Sectors

  • Energy
  • Retail & Ecommerce

Services

  • eData

Regions

  • North America

Events

5/26/2021 - Leveraging Ediscovery Tools to Find Key Evidence in Newer Locations and Unsearchable Files
10/27/2020 - ARMA InfoCon 2020
10/10/2018 - The 8th Annual EDI Leadership Summit
5/2/2013 - Current Status and Future of Fracking Litigation

News

5/11/2020 - Adapting Information Governance for the COVID-19 Era, Law360
3/12/2020 - Coronavirus: Giving Out Patient Details - A Case of Serving Public Good or Invasion of Privacy?, Straits Times
11/27/2017 - Morgan Lewis eData Practice Publishes 2017 Ediscovery Deskbook

Publications

2021 - eData Deskbook, Fourth Edition
5/4/2021 - The eDiscovery and Information Governance Law Review - Edition 3
4/8/2020 - INSIGHT: Tomorrow’s Lawyer Must Embrace Innovation, Technology, Bloomberg Law
3/9/2020 - Coronavirus v. GDPR: Suspending Data Privacy Protection During Civil Crisis
6/22/2017 - Is Proportionality Your Polestar in eDiscovery?, Bloomberg Law's Digital Discovery & e-Evidence
7/10/2014 - Texas Supreme Court Rules on Spoliation Instructions
March 2014 - Discovery on Discovery, Practical Law
5/9/2013 - Court Permits Combination of Predictive Coding and Keyword Search
5/2/2013 - Current Status and Future of Fracking Litigation
3/4/2013 - Computer-Assisted Review Costs Awarded in California Patent Case
3/30/2012 - New York State Court Applies Zubulake Preservation Standard
3/22/2012 - Loser Pays Most Electronic Discovery Costs? Not So Fast
2/22/2012 - District of Delaware Adopts Default Standards for E-Discovery
9/28/2011 - Federal Circuit Unveils Model Order for E-Discovery in Patent Cases