Offering a team of highly experienced lawyers, K&L Gates assists clients with e-discovery matters from pre-trial to post-trial stages, information governance, document processing and reviews. It has a strong reputation for handling litigation work along with arbitration and investigation aspects. The team is led in Seattle by Julie Anne Halter, who brings experience of advising clients in all stages of the discovery process, including management, review, litigation readiness and document-intensive issues. Daniel Miller in Pittsburgh counsels on records preservation and collection issues, and e-discovery related data breach investigations, while Seattle-based Rachel Tausend has a strong reputation for drafting and evaluating ESI agreements, protective and privilege orders.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The K&L Gates eDiscovery team has significant expertise in multiple platforms and software solutions, which gives them the ability to provide efficient options for any given situation.’
  • ‘My organization worked closely with Rachel Tausend. She was a tremendous resource and provided great leadership to the process. She was able to take the complexities of the project and the explain them and the necessary processes in a way that aligned all parties.’

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Julie Anne Halter

Other key lawyers

Daniel Miller, Rachel Tausend