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Allison has worked in the eDiscovery field for over fifteen years and focused on various areas of the EDRM throughout that tenure.  For the past ten years, she has focused on Analytics.  Currently, as a Vice President of Analytics, she is part of a group of 35 lawyers and programmers fully dedicated to leveraging analytics. She is responsible for the Analytics group’s case deliverables and project execution.

The Consilio analytics team specializes in custom analytics solutions for complex eDiscovery matters across a wide variety of situations, often with competing considerations.   The team provides clients and counsel with a comprehensive view of their data, including pattern recognition and substantive analysis.  This actionable intelligence allows Allison and the team to consult and assess the merit and workability of solutions in each set of circumstances.

Allison’s skillset combines a legal education with a technical aptitude.  As such, she facilitates communication between clients and investigators, attorneys and technical eDiscovery experts, outside counsel and review teams.  She enjoys sharing her analytics expertise with her team, with clients, and through CLE programs and presentations. Given the increased reliance on technology within eDiscovery, she knows analytics is here to stay.

Drawing on more than 25 years of experience providing dedicated client service as an attorney and consultant, Maureen engages with Consilio’s customers to ensure a best-in-class client experience. She works cross-functionally across the company to develop and deploy best practices that embed Consilio’s commitment to service excellence, and to deliver the highest levels of quality and value. She seeks opportunities to create differentiating moments for clients—from bespoke educational sessions to loyalty programs to peer networking events—to foster client satisfaction and loyalty.

Maureen also serves as Consilio’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer. She leads the development and implementation of the company’s strategies, policies, and programs for ensuring a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. Partnering with Consilio’s internal and client Advisory Boards on Diversity & Inclusion, Maureen guides the organization in carrying out its mission of attracting and encouraging a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and ideas; fostering a global, inclusive culture; and celebrating employees’ diverse strengths.

Maureen is a respected industry thought leader, speaking and writing frequently on significant issues that impact Consilio’s clients, such as current challenges for legal professionals around data privacy and security; strategies and tactics for engaging in cross-border discovery; the latest developments in e-discovery law and practice; and diversity, equity, and inclusion in the legal profession.

Prior to joining Consilio, Maureen was a partner at Paul Hastings LLP, where she represented Fortune 100 and other multinational companies in complex employment litigation, including class and collective actions. Maureen also co-chaired the Firm’s E-Discovery Practice Group. In that role, she advised clients on various e-discovery issues, such as identifying and inventorying sources of electronic information, drafting legal hold notices, and developing protocols for document collection, storage, and management. She also consulted internally with attorneys at the Firm on e-discovery issues, and helped develop best practices for litigators engaged in e-discovery.

Peter leads Consilio’s Financial Services Vertical (FSV) focusing on managing the business relationship with multinational financial services clients. Under his leadership, Consilio has built its practice to support all 15 of the top 15 global investment banks and over 100 other financial services firms.

Peter conceived Consilio’s Financial Services Vertical to facilitate knowledge sharing and process continuity across global financial institutions that are subject to a comparable regulatory framework and litigation exposure. Today, the FSV is actively supporting the largest global investment banks across North America, Europe, India, China, and Japan. The confluence of regulatory requirements, data systems, encryption standards, and information security considerations expose the industry to a unique set of challenges that have consistent themes across financial institutions.  Further, the global nature of these organizations brings in data privacy, secrecy, and other regional considerations.

Peter’s objective is for the FSV to aggregate and distribute the value of Consilio’s collective expertise supporting these clients’ over 50,000+ engagements and bring to bear actionable intelligence and best practices in the engagements we are supporting today and into the future. Some of these include Off-Channel Communications related investigations, multi-bank underwriter litigations, departed employee/financial advisor protocols, Data Subject Access Requests, cross border matters, as well as an expansive array of regulatory exams and internal investigations. Through consolidation of this expertise, the FSV endeavors to create a highly differentiated client expertise founded on the FSV theme, Powered by Knowledge.

Michael is a Managing Director, Global Strategic Client Experience for Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review and legal consulting services.
He consults with corporate legal departments, including many Fortune 500 Companies and their outside law firms across a range of business processes and operational requirements. Michael has expertise in helping clients navigate the entire electronic discovery process related to complex litigation and investigations.
Michael also works with clients to develop processes and cost-saving strategies in matters involving the collection, processing and review of large amounts of email and other electronic data.

Michael specializes in Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Class Action, Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, Internal Investigations, Product Liability and Government Investigations.

Ellen manages relationships with several global strategicaccounts, seeking opportunities to maximize efficiency and minimize risk throughintentional adoption of technologies, services, and workflows.  She partners with our client’s legal,procurement and legal operations departments to ensure legal, operational,budgetary goals are scoped and achieved.

She has experience managing the eDiscovery operations ofboth large and small corporations, which helps her assess and solve ourclients’ challenges. Ellen specializes in fostering relationships with both ourcorporate and law firm partners to achieve cost-effective, defensible, andconsistent results.

Prior to joining the Strategic Client Solutions team, Ellenserved as a project manager and operational account manager within Consilio, overseeingthe day-to-day team management and workflow operations, while developing andimplementing account-level initiatives.  

Ellen is licensed to practice law in the stateof North Carolina and has extensive hands-on technical experience administeringa variety of review, analytics, archiving and case management platforms, aswell as numerous collaboration tools including Microsoft 365.

Brent is responsible for day-to-day relationship management of many of Consilio’s largest and most important corporate and law firm clients. Drawing on 20 years of experience, Brent works closely with clients on a wide range of discovery issues and building scalable discovery and legal operations programs.

An additional responsibility and focus is leadership of Consilio's Insurance Vertical. Brent leads a team aligned on delivering tailored services to Consilio’s Insurance Industry clients, including both carriers, brokers and their law firms.  As a trusted adviser internally and to Consilio’s insurance industry clients, Brent translates complex, technical subjects to actionable insights for legal, claims and compliance teams.   

Brent's emphasis is on account management and service delivery, improving the efficiency of all aspects of the EDRM process, and client relationship management coupled with employee retention and growth. Brent works closely with Consilio's GRO and SCS teams to help build continuity across Consilio's teams and to strengthen our knowledge sharing to benefit our clients and their engagement needs.

Patty Wise provides executive oversight to Consilio’s flexible talent business unit, where she is responsible for driving organic growth and architecting bespoke flexible legal talent programs to help clients solve unique legal challenges. Since 2008, she has partnered with Consilio clients to provide the right legal talent to build resilient legal organizations across industries, practice areas, and geographies. Prior to joining Consilio, Patty practiced law with Troutman Sanders in Atlanta and Kennedy Covington in Charlotte (now K&L Gates). She holds a J.D. from Vanderbilt University, where she was awarded the Junius L. Allison Award, given for the most significant contribution to the Legal Aid Society, and a B.A. from Emory University.