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ABOUT THE AUTHORS MARY ANN POWER BENSON, Director of Consulting for eDiscovery Solutions at Epiq Systems, has more than 25 years of experience in the legal industry, primarily in the areas of e-discovery and information management systems. At Epiq, she works with corporate and law firm clients to ensure that the challenges they face with respect to e-discovery are met with the right blend of technology and expertise. She can be reached at mabenson@epiqsystems.com. MAUREEN O'NEILL, Senior Vice President, San Francisco Marketplace Director and Labor & Employment Practice Leader for DiscoverReady, has unique experience in the production of data from complicated, voluminous databases. Before joining DiscoverReady, Maureen was a partner in the employment law practice at Paul Hastings, representing employers in all aspects of employment litigation. In addition to speaking and publishing on a variety of employment law and litigation topics, she is active in the Sedona Conference® Working Group for electronic CHRIS BROWN has been involved in all aspects of document and discovery management for over 20 years. He has worked in law firms, as well as for vendors and consulting firms. For the last nine years, he has advised corporate legal departments on a variety of technology issues as a principle/partner in AFH Services, Inc. He can be reached at chris.brown@AFHServices.com. document retention and production. She can be reached at maureen.oneill@discoverready.com. LISA GIRMSCHEID is the Law Department Administrator and Project Manager at Rockwell Automation, one of the world's largest industrial automation companies, serving automotive, food and beverage (including dairy), personal care, life sciences, oil and gas, mining, and paper and pulp markets. Before joining Rockwell Automation in 2005, Lisa spent 14 years working in a similar capacity at a large insurance company's legal staff attorney office. Lisa is also a member of ILTA's Law Department Peer Group Steering Committee. She can be reached at lcgirmscheid@ra.rockwell.com. MICHAEL RUSSELL has worked in enterprise legal services as a Strategic Legal Technologist and Director of Business Systems for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company for the last 11 years. Mike has been actively involved with ILTA for more than 17 years, where he currently serves on the Law Department Peer Group Steering Committee and previously was a Regional Vice President. Before joining Liberty Mutual, he was a legal industry consultant and law firm IT director. Mike is certified by numerous vendors, including Cisco, Citrix, EMC, Microsoft and Novell. He is an associate member of the American Bar Association and its Law Practice Management Section, and he's a frequent speaker and author for ILTA, LegalTech and several other legal and technology organizations. Mike can be reached at michael.russell@libertymutual.com. LAURA KIBBE, Senior Vice President of eDiscovery Solutions at Epiq Systems, has more than 17 years of legal experience as both a senior corporate counsel and a practicing law firm attorney. She oversees Epiq's document review solutions, which provide contract document review services for large data collections by qualified attorneys. She can be reached at lkibbe@epiqsystems.com. RALPH SCHROEDER is Managing Director at Hyperion Global Partners and leads the Hyperion Research practice. He is a recognized expert in the legal industry with over 15 years of experience gained from working with leading corporate law departments, law firms and solution providers. Ralph's areas of focus include intellectual property, contract and license management, enterprise legal management (e-billing/matter management), legal operations and legal IT strategy and vendor selection. He can be reached at ralph@hgpresearch.com. 40 Corporate Law Departments ILTA White Paper