Jeff Brown is a co-founder of the firm’s Discovery Solutions Practice, a niche practice group that specializes in the management of mass document and electronically stored information collection, review and production projects for corporate clients – primarily pharmaceutical and medical device companies – engaged in complex litigation, regulatory disputes and governmental investigations. His unique practice focuses almost exclusively on electronic discovery and electronic document management issues. He has extensive experience budgeting, planning and managing large-scale document and electronic discovery projects.

Jeff provides consulting services and advice to clients regarding document and data management issues affecting litigation, such as instituting retention plans, drafting and issuing hold and preservation notices, creating and implementing electronic discovery response plans, and selecting electronic document database systems and litigation support vendors. In addition, he acts as a Special Master in federal proceedings involving electronic discovery disputes.

In 2004, Jeff received Kroll Ontrack’s “Electronic Evidence Thought Leading Litigator” award. He served as law clerk to United States Magistrate Judge Barry R. Poretz in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia from 1993 to 1994.

PRACTICE AREAS
• Electronic Discovery
• Complex Document and Data Management
• Pharmaceutical Litigation

PRESENTATIONS and PUBLICATIONS
• Presentation: E-Discovery Amendments to the Federal Rules: A Year Later, Moderator, Richmond Metropolitan Bench-Bar Conference, (October 18, 2007).
• Presentation: E-Discovery Amendments to the New Federal Rules: An Overview, Richmond Litigation Technology Group, (September 13, 2006)
• Presentation: The Seven Deadly Sins of E-Discovery, Webinar sponsored by LDSI, with Mark Yacano (June 9, 2005)
• Presentation: Vetting Your E-Discovery Vendor, Webinar sponsored by LDSI, with Mark Yacano (March 24, 2005).
• Presentation: Output for Review and Production, Faculty, Kroll Ontrack Electronic Discovery Certification Course (March 2005).
• E-Headache: How the New Federal Rules Will Impact the Pharmaceutical Industry , Pharmaceutical Executive, December 2006.
• And The E-Oscar Goes To…, Discoveryresources.org (March 2005).
• A Seine Approach: Managing Mass Electronic Document Review Projects , For The Defense, August 2004, at 16.
• The Case For Conversion: Ten Reasons Why Counsel Should Be Managing Paper Documents Electronically , Atlantic Coast In-House, July 2004, at 16.
• Do You Blog? If Not You May Want To Do So , Va. Lawyers Wkly., July 12, 2004, at B-3.


PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
• Virginia State Bar
• Defense Research Institute


EDUCATION
• J.D., George Mason University School of Law, 1993
• B.A. with distinction, University of Virginia, 1990


LICENSURE AND ADMISSIONS
• Virginia State Bar, 1993
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• United State Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit