Electronically Stored Information & Technology

Turning ESI Into a Strategic Advantage

Bailey Glasser’s Electronically Stored Information & Technology team helps our clients negotiate and litigate from positions of strength by implementing timely and cost-effective technologies, 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, and overall technology security.

The technology choices you make before legal disputes arise can either protect you or put you at a disadvantage. We work with clients to implement preservation strategies that are both legally sound and practically manageable, using tools that fit your organization's size and the nature of your data. From litigation holds to document collection and review platforms, we help you deploy technology that keeps your information secure, your privileges intact, and your costs under control. Our goal is to ensure the technology working around your data is also working for you.

Moreover, how you store, manage, and protect your electronic information matters long before any lawsuit is filed. Our ESI and Technology team works directly with clients, their in-house counsel, and certified IT and forensic professionals to make sure the right systems and protocols are in place from the start. That means helping you build information governance structures that hold up under scrutiny, identifying gaps in your current technology setup, and working with trusted experts to close them. Whether you are dealing with data security concerns, regulatory compliance, or the growing complexity of AI tools in the workplace, we help you get ahead of the risks rather than react to them.

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. 

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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 in two nationwide E-Discovery & Information Governance categories (including the top Band 1 ranking for her plaintiffs work) 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)

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Chambers Global Guide - Artificial Intelligence 2026 - USA

"AI in Legal Practice: With Great (Computing) Power Comes Great (Ethical) Responsibility"

Bailey Glasser lawyers Katherine E. Charonko, Panida Anderson, Allison A. Bruff, and Elizabeth L. Stryker have authored an article appearing in the Chambers and Partners 2026 Artificial Intelligence Global Practice Guide: Trends and Developments, USA: “AI in Legal Practice: With Great (Computing) Power Comes Great (Ethical) Responsibility" 

In this article, the authors examine the ethical implications of the use of artificial intelligence in the legal industry.  Ms. Charonko, the firm's Electronically Stored Information & Technology Practice Group Leader, is a Chambers-ranked litigator who writes and speaks frequently about technology issues, including in the artificial intelligence arena. Ms. Charonko was named a winner of the Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award by Legalweek (ALM) in 2026 and was included on the 2026 Lawdragon 100 Leading AI & Legal Tech Advisors list. Kate is nationally ranked by Chambers & Partners in the Product Liability: Plaintiffs category, and was named a 2026 Lawdragon Top 500 Leading Litigators list, among many other recognitions.

You can read the article below.  If you would prefer to read the online edition, please visit this link.