Lead Author Karen Schuler is a forensic, electronic discovery, and technology professional with more than 18 years' consulting to legal, government, and corporate entities. She's a testifying expert on the field of e-discovery, as well as a frequent speaker and author on preservation, collections, e-discovery, and document review. She regularly advises her clients on their data preservation and collection, analytical, and enterprise discovery strategies. Ms. Schuler has both national and international experience advising on issues such as defensible and admissible data preservation and collection methodologies, electronic discovery processing, document review, and data mining and analysis. As a former forensic examiner for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, founder of one of the first forensic technology companies on the east coast of the U.S., and a consultant, she focuses her practice on mitigating litigation risks associated with preservation and collections throughout the electronic discovery process.