Principal at ESI Attorneys, an Information Law and eDiscovery law firm in Colorado, Kelly is equally at home on the basketball court and in court, likely a testament to her undying tenacity, love for strategic sports, and an uncanny eye for game-winning strategies. She calls the shots like she sees them (she’s blunt and brutally honest), and like any great athlete, attorney, or coach, thinks six moves ahead in order to create plays that don’t just work — they shine.
For over fifteen years, Kelly’s been an attorney, first as a litigator and now focused on eDiscovery and Information Law for the last seven. Her tech beginnings, however, date back to her first job in high school – building clone computers – and since that time, she’s made impressive strides as an attorney, litigator, innovator in eDiscovery and information law, a mother, and lover of all things basketball (did we mention basketball?).
Kelly works with clients such as Fortune 50 and 250 companies, law firms of all sizes and specialties, and municipalities to help then do better business through smarter, more efficient eDiscovery practices and procedures. In 2011, she co-authored one of the most prominent books on eDiscovery, currently used by West for its eDiscovery education across the country.
If you’re looking for fluff, you won’t find it in your conversations with Kelly. She’ll call your firm’s procedural inefficiencies with the fervor of a basketball referee in the Final Four. On the flip side, she’ll help create systems that make opposing counsel’s head spin as you present an ironclad case in record time. She’s no-BS while nurturing, efficient while relationship-oriented, and probably just the mom you want to sit next to at the soccer fields – that is, if you’re interested in great conversation and a hilarious commentary on refereeing skills.
Specialties: eDiscovery, open records requests, FOIA consulting, email archiving, SAP, Microsoft Exchange, MessageOne, KVS, records retention policies