Practicing Good Data Hygiene to Effectively Manage Data Security in eDiscovery

Brian Corbin is Vice President, Assistant General Counsel within the Litigation department at JPMorgan Chase. He serves on the leadership team of Legal Discovery Management, an in-house group that advises and coordinates with internal and external counsel in connection with the discovery process for JPMC’s litigation matters, regulatory inquiries, and investigations. In his role as internal discovery counsel, Brian leads a multinational team of discovery specialists and project managers, overseeing several programs related to legal preservation, information governance, retention policy, and data protection issues arising from cross-border discovery.

Prior to joining JPMC, Brian worked with managed services provider Clutch Group in Bangalore, India, and the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C.

Farrah Pepper is the Chief Legal Innovation Counsel (CLIC) at Marsh & McLennan, where she makes things…click. Farrah founded and leads the company’s Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) team, which includes the LIT innovation lab and the legal data discovery program.

Farrah has a long history of building and leading in-house and law firm teams to solve business challenges, create enterprise value and reduce risk. Previously, Farrah was GE’s global discovery counsel, where she served as the large, diverse conglomerate’s first dedicated legal expert on discovery strategy and policy. Farrah created and led the GE Discovery Center of Excellence and reinvented GE’s approach to global discovery and data management to drive dramatic savings, efficiencies and risk reduction. Prior to joining GE, Farrah was a litigator in the New York office of Gibson Dunn, where she was a founder and leader of the firm’s global electronic discovery practice group.

Recent accolades for Farrah include being named a Thought Leader by Corporate Counsel (Women, Influence & Power), a Women of Legal Tech inductee by the ABA’s LTRC (Legal Technology Research Center), a member of the Legal 500 GC Powerlist (US), and a fellow in the College of Law Practice Management. Farrah is a lifelong New Yorker and double-NYU grad: NYU College of Arts & Science (B.A., summa cum laude) and NYU School of Law (J.D.).