Anne Kershaw

Biography

Ms. Kershaw is the President, General Counsel and co-founder of the E-Discovery Institute (www.ediscoveryinstitute.org), a not-for-profit corporation conducting studies of electronic discovery processes and dedicated to resolving discovery challenges facing the legal community.

Ms. Kershaw has been involved with high tech litigation management since 1993, taking management roles on national coordinating and trial counsel teams defending volume, multi-state, product liability claims. Ms. Kershaw has an AV+ rating in Martindale Hubbell and consults in complex and individual cases on electronic data discovery strategy and issues and has served as an expert for FRCP 30(b)(6) technology and corporate policy depositions. Ms. Kershaw also maintains ongoing involvement in federal and state civil rules reform to address electronic discovery issues and litigation fairness issues, providing litigation survey data and testimony before the Federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee.  In addition, Ms. Kershaw is a Faculty Member of Columbia University's Executive Master of Science in Technology Management Program, teaches at the Georgetown University E-Discovery Academy and is an Advisory Board Member of the Georgetown University Law Center's Advanced E-Discovery Institute.  She is a frequent lecturer and in March 2007, she joined Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller at Georgetown’s Thought Leadership Summit. She is also one of the principal drafters of Navigating the Vendor Proposal Process: Best Practices for the Selection of Electronic Discovery Vendors and a contributing editor of The Sedona Conference Glossary For E-Discovery and Digital Information Management (May 2005 Version), both publications of the Sedona Conference® Working Group on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention and Production RFP+ Group (www.thesedonaconference.org).

Ms. Kershaw is a 1987 graduate, cum laude, of New York Law School and a 1982 graduate of Bard College.  She is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, and Ninth Circuits, United States Supreme Court, and all New York State Courts.

Education

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Admissions/Licenses

• Bar Admissions: NY