Kate’s practice spans large-scale litigations, internal investigations, government investigations, and data breach response. Versatile and resourceful, she routinely assists organizations facing information overload, combining proactive legal problem-solving and tech-savvy to efficiently uncover and assess key facts. Kate brings a deft, innovative approach to each representation, blending her extensive technical background and legal expertise to provide creative and defensible strategies for her clients.

Before practicing law, Kate was an industry-leading e-Discovery technologist. She is one of the first certified Relativity Masters and served as e-Discovery manager for an AmLaw 100 firm. Her experience ranges from investigating multi-million document data sets, to analyzing structured and unstructured data, to evaluating emerging technologies. She pioneered early case uses for data analytics such as predictive coding (TAR 1.0) and continuous active learning (TAR 2.0) and is well-versed in multiple TAR technologies such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI).

Prior to joining Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, she was a judicial extern for The Honorable M. Hannah Lauck and a judicial intern for The Honorable Henry Hudson, each of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. She also served as an Appellate Advocacy teaching assistant to The Honorable Marla Graff Decker, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia. During law school, Kate served on the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology (JOLT) and was a regular contributor to the JOLT blog.

Relevant Experience

• Structuring and implementing prioritized review (TAR 2.0) and predictive coding (TAR 1.0) protocols.
• Coordinating electronic discovery, collection, and culling issues and managing large-scale review for Fortune 500 clients.
• Designing and supervising the collection, review, and production of documents for Fortune 500 companies in response to class action defense, state attorney general investigations, Federal Trade Commission civil investigative demands, and Department of Justice grand jury subpoenas.
• Analyzing raw and structured client data sets containing millions of data points.
• Relativity Master, Relativity
• Relativity Certified Administrator
• Relativity Analytics Specialist
• Relativity Project Management Specialist
• Relativity Infrastructure Specialist
• Relativity Review Specialist

Education
BA, University of Virginia, Economics, Foreign Affairs, 2005

• John Henry, the Steam Drill, and the Increasing Demands of Rule 26(g), Richmond Journal of Law & Technology Blog
• Technology-Assisted Review: Overcoming the Judicial Double-Standard, Richmond Journal of Law & Technology Blog
• America’s Overlooked Surrogate Mothers, Richmond Journal of Law and Technology Blog
• California Early Discovery Disclosures Demand More of Defendants, Bloomberg Law