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Andrea Donovan Napp is chair of the firm's Electronic Discovery and Information Management Team. In addition to e-discovery, Andrea focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, business torts, and market conduct cases, representing businesses, municipalities, and individuals in various jurisdictions. As chair of the Electronic Discovery and Information Management Team, Andrea coordinates Robinson+Cole's use of the latest technology, such as Concordance, CaseMap, LAW, LiveNote, and various Web-based platforms, to achieve maximum efficiency and compliance for our clients. Andrea has significant experience in all aspects of e-discovery, including document retention and data management planning, development of defensible collection policies, and management of large scale reviews and production. She has managed several large, sophisticated e-discovery projects in government investigations and private litigation. Notably, she led United Technologies Corporation's privilege review in the Department of Justice's antitrust review of the largest-ever aerospace merger. She routinely counsels clients on the development of data retention policies, legal hold practices, and e-discovery response plans. Read her rc.com bio here.

There is a significant nexus between data privacy and security and e-discovery that grows more pronounced as the volume of data generated multiplies exponentially and the ability of e-discovery tools to collect and process that data grows increasingly sophisticated. Specifically, the e-discovery process presents a very real risk of inadvertently compromising Personal Identifying Information (PII).

As U.S. litigators and U.S. courts begin to gain some level of comfort with advanced e-discovery practices, new challenges have emerged in the form of cross-border discovery. While most U.S. attorneys are aware that there are challenges associated with collecting data from individuals and entities in Europe and Asia, they tend to focus primarily on

News that Hilary Rodham Clinton routinely used her private email account for official government business while she was Secretary of State has put e-discovery—and the mingling of  personal and business emails—on the radar of politicians and business people alike.

The State Department sought emails from Clinton in connection with its investigation into the killing of U.S. Citizens in Benghazi and Libya in 2012.  As part of the investigation, the State Department sent out email preservation notices and requests to Clinton, among others.  It soon became clear that Clinton, like every Secretary of State using email before John Kerry, had used her private email account to conduct her government business.  
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