The ability to efficiently identify, preserve, and access electronic information of any volume can significantly impact a party’s standing in business transactions and legal disputes, as well as to comply with national and international laws.
Overview
Turning ESI Into a Strategic Advantage
Bailey Glasser’s Electronically Stored Information & Technology team ensure that our clients negotiate and litigate from a position of strength by implementing timely and cost-effective information preservation, management, and production strategies. We also support our litigation teams – and clients – in ways that are increasingly imperative when it comes to litigation requirements, artificial intelligence, as well as overall technology security.
We employ a firm command of evolving best practices, emergent technologies, and established legal principles and rules to ensure that our corporate and individual clients preserve, collect, and manage ESI, and conduct e-Discovery, with strategic confidence. Our focus is ensuring that the strategic use of ESI – and the timing related to when ESI strategies are deployed in pending or threatened litigation – positively impact the flow and cost of our legal proceedings and ensure matters are handled properly, that laws and regulations are properly complied with, and that privileges are protected. This includes the responsible deployment of artificial intelligence technologies.
Katherine Charonko, our firm's ESI &Technology Practice Group Leader, is a thought leader in the field of ESI and is a Certified e-Discovery Specialist (“CEDS”), a globally recognized credential. She regularly speaks and writes about ESI and artificial intelligence issues around the country. Kate was named a 2026 Lawdragon 100 Leading AI & Legal Tech Advisor and is also a 2026 winner of the prestigious Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award by Legalweek (ALM).
Kate is nationally ranked by Chambers & Partners and was recognized as a 2026 Lawdragon Top 500 Leading Litigators list, among many other recognitions.
Kate has been appointed to leadership roles in e-Discovery in three multidistrict litigations and provides efficient, cost-effective, and detail-oriented support for all significant BG litigations from beginning to end. Charonko’s practice group evaluates technical and ESI needs; crafts litigation holds; coordinates custodial interviews; conducts document collections; implements aggressive preservation management; negotiates and drafts ESI protocols and protective orders; manages massive discovery libraries; conducts document review; navigates discovery challenges presented by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other privacy regulations; and provides trial support.
We also work with clients when litigation is not at issue, but security and information governance is. We work with our clients, in-house counsel, nationally certified IT professionals and forensic experts, records custodians, and government agencies to maximize informational security and strategic advantage.
Please contact us to see if we can assist you stay safe and protected on the ESI & Technology arena. 
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- Appointed to serve on the leadership team for the Discovery & ESI Subcommittee in a multidistrict class-action litigation in the defective 3M combat arms earplugs case
- Served as ESI counsel for a consortium of small energy sector companies regarding contractual claims associated with a major pipeline project; utilizing strategic and analytical ESI functionalities, we synthesized and produced large amounts of data for each client to advance a pre-trial resolution of the claims
- Serves as ESI liaison to the US Department of Justice regarding ESI needs in a False Claims Act whistleblower case
- Served as ESI counsel for a government contract company to preserve, analyze and produce extensive amounts of data related to a government inquiry; utilizing negotiated ESI protocols, we efficiently limited the inquiry scope and timely resolved the inquiry needs
- Serving as liaison director of e-Discovery to several MDL leadership committees in various cases focusing on medical device product liability claims surrounding manufactured hernia mesh products, including working with the plaintiffs’ executive committee in Atrium Medical Corp. C-Qur Mesh Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 2753)
