Anne Kershaw

As owner and managing director of Reasonable Discovery, LLC, Anne Kershaw continues the substantial consulting practice she developed under A. Kershaw, PC//Attorneys & Consultants, particularly in the areas of legacy data management and disposition and the development of sensible, cost-effective business records management programs that actually work. Reasonable Discovery, LLC, under Anne’s leadership, provides strategists who use litigation expertise and mastery of current technologies to provide clients with flexible, powerful solutions for collecting, interrogating and managing data. Anne also serves as a testifying and consulting expert, defending or challenging e-discovery processes and dispositions of accumulated legacy data. As an attorney and a nationally recognized data, litigation, and business records consultant, Anne provides independent analysis and innovative recommendations for the management and e-discovery of legacy and active data, including backup tapes, file shares, email, and archives. She has provided advice and solutions for managing discovery, saving her clients millions of dollars in some of the nation’s largest litigations, including the tobacco litigation, repetitive stress litigation, securities fraud litigations, product liability MDLs, wage and hours class actions, anti-trust investigations/litigations, insurance antitrust MDLs, and investment fraud claims.

Kershaw has been involved with high tech litigation management since 1993, taking management roles on national coordinating and trial counsel teams defending volume, multi-state, product liability claims. Kershaw is also co-founder of the non-profit E-Discovery Institute, where she served as President from 2006-2012. In addition, Kershaw is a Faculty Member of Columbia University's Executive Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Strategy, was a faculty member of Georgetown University’s E-Discovery Academy, and is currently an Advisory Board Member of Georgetown University Law Center's Advanced E-Discovery Institute. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Data Law Initiative at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and is a Fellow of the eDiscovery & Legal Analytics Program at the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at Arizona State University Law School. Kershaw is a frequent lecturer and in March 2007, she joined Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller at Georgetown’s Thought Leadership Summit. In 2010, 2011 and 2014 she conducted workshops on electronic discovery at the Federal Judicial Center’s conferences for U.S. Magistrate Judges. In 2010, Kershaw published the Judge’s Guide to Cost-Effective E-Discovery, with a foreword by the Hon. James C. Francis IV, United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York. She is also the author of numerous published articles, all posted on the articles page of Reasonable Discovery, LLC’s website, and is a member of the Sedona Conference® Working Group on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention and Production, the Association of Records Management, and the National Association of Women Lawyers. Kershaw is also a member of the ABA Woman Advocate Committee and co-chairs the ABA’s E-Discovery and Litigation Technology Committee for the Corporate Counsel Litigation Section Committee.

Kershaw is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Ninth and Tenth Circuits, United States Supreme Court, and all New York State Courts. Kershaw has an AV+ rating in Martindale Hubbell.