BIOGRAPHIES
Litigation Consulting Services' principles and expertise emanate from our management group, which includes:
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John Sweeney - President James Mittenthal - J.D. Jamie Berry - J.D. |
David D. Rohde - J.D., L.L.M. |
John Sweeney, President
Mr. Sweeney consults in the areas of litigation readiness, business process reengineering, knowledge management, cost containment, vendor management and organizational development. During his career he has worked with more than 100 corporations, including DuPont, Computer Sciences Corporation, Bank of America, The World Bank, IBM, GE, Zurich Financial Services, Bristol Myers Squibb and AT&T. Prior to joining Litigation Consulting Services, he was a director with an expert services consulting firm, where he specialized in litigation readiness and served as a member of their executive committee. He has held senior executive positions with several publicly traded professional services and private equity firms.
Laura M. Kibbe
Ms. Kibbe’s practice focuses on client technology, discovery and records counseling on electronic and technological issues in day-to-day corporate operations. She coordinates the corporation’s discovery efforts with outside counsel, manages third-party vendor relationships and is active in forging offshore review operations and protocols. Previously Ms. Kibbe was senior corporate counsel and managing director of the discovery response team at Pfizer, Inc. For her work at Pfizer, Corporate Counsel magazine named her an e-discovery “trailblazer” in 2006 and the following year gave her its award for the most innovative in-house counsel. She has authored articles and speaks frequently on e-discovery and records retention.
Eric V. Mazur
Mr. Mazur has 19 years of experience performing computer forensic examinations, conducting investigations, and building and managing computer forensic laboratories and electronic discovery data processing facilities. He has extensive experience leading highly sensitive, complex investigations and recovering massive amounts of data residing on backup tape. He was trained by the U.S. Treasury Department as a seized computer evidence recovery specialist and is an EnCase Certified Examiner. Mr. Mazur is highly regarded as an expert witness in computer forensics and electronic discovery.
James Mittenthal, J.D.
Mr. Mittenthal has worked with law firms and law departments for more than 20 years on engagements involving technology planning, implementation and automated litigation support, with a focus on e-discovery, forensics and expert witness roles.
Jamie Berry, J.D.
Mr. Berry has nine years of extensive experience developing and implementing integrated strategies for electronic discovery and document management in complex litigations. He has provided clients with expertise in proactive corporate litigation readiness programs and episodic litigation response planning. Mr. Berry has served as a law firm’s litigation support manager, director of client services at a large litigation support service provider and senior managing consultant at an electronic discovery consulting firm.
Pamela Downs
Ms. Downs has 22 years of experience in litigation management, including positions as the director of product liability litigation practice for an international law firm and a litigation consultant managing numerous litigation readiness assessments, creating policies and processes, and delivering technology results to Fortune 1000 corporations.
David D. Rohde, J.D., L.L.M.
Mr. Rohde has been a litigator and litigation manager for more than a decade, developing policies, processes and systems for large-scale, multiparty cases. He lectures extensively on e-discovery and the strategic impact of recent federal rules changes.
Andrew Siske
During his three years as manager of a computer forensics laboratory in Washington, D.C., Mr. Siske led several complex and highly sensitive investigations. Prior to that he worked as a federal contractor at the Department of Defense’s Cyber Crime Center, where he taught computer forensics and computer crime investigation to federal, state and local law enforcement officers and supported criminal investigations by conducting computer forensics investigations. He has 21 years of law enforcement experience and has been deemed an expert witness in the federal courts. Mr. Siske has lectured at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, DOD’s Cyber Crime Conference and the George Mason Computer Forensics Symposium, and helped the National Institute of Standards and Technology develop best practices for digital evidence.
Alice E. Burns
A nationally recognized expert on litigation management, Ms. Burns provides legal software and technology-based management solutions to law firms, corporate legal departments and government.
Carolyn Young
With a degree in Telecommunications, Ms. Young has 19 years of experience with high end integrated technologies and has served in senior management operational roles throughout her career. She provides expertise in the areas of large litigious case management helping clients to narrow and execute a case scope of data collections, processing, review and production. Ms. Young also currently provides in firm litigation management and litigation analyst support and has strengths in litigation support services, operations, budgetary project planning and litigation support profitability. As Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors for Women in Chicago Litigation and Practice Support, Ms.Young is a well known industry leader in the Chicago Metropolitan area.
Christina M. Torres
Ms. Torres has more than thirteen years experience with enterprise-wide document and records management, policy and process design and implementation, technology integration, e-discovery support and project management. Previously, as the Director of Corporate Records at Microsoft, she was responsible for designing and implementing strategic, innovative document and records management policies, compliance programs and tools to meet domestic and international legal, regulatory and critical business needs. Her experience includes technology and project management positions in a number of industries involving high tech, architecture, education, financial services, and real estate.
Leanne J. McDonald
Ms. McDonald has over six years of experience implementing an international compliance and records management program in a highly matrix and geographically distributed corporate environment. She specializes in litigation holds and discovery, state and federal regulation, and top down business risk assessments. Ms. McDonald also has substantial experience in SOX compliance, records management systems implementation, email archiving, and corporate restructuring synergy. She has supervised the creation and implementation of corporate policies, retention schedules, processes, and training in an effort to increase records management efficiencies and reduce discovery costs.