Ashley Picker Dubin

Counsel

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Overview

Ashley Picker Dubin counsels clients and provides practical and strategic advice on electronic discovery (eDiscovery) and information governance (IG) processes. She has extensive knowledge about best practices in these areas and has won several major discovery victories. Ashley partners with in-house legal counsels, technology teams and records management departments to develop and implement effective and defensible workflows for discovery. She advises clients on data loss and records retention, as well as challenges and solutions generated by emerging technologies in records and information management.

Ashley successfully leverages technology to assist clients in all phases of discovery, from preservation and collection to review and production of large volumes of data, as well as expert discovery on subjects related to forensics and electronically stored information (ESI). She serves as eDiscovery liaison in jurisdictions across the United States, and collaborates with Day Pitney attorneys in a number of practice areas to tailor strategies and discovery management plans for clients in the United States, Europe, South America and Singapore. Ashley has significant and wide-ranging experience representing financial institutions, the aviation industry, and Fortune 500 companies in internal investigations, government investigations, claims of fraud, securities compliance and cross-border litigation, including data privacy and antitrust matters. She also represents corporations to provide strategic advice on an enterprise and individual level to devise a customized plan for information governance and use policies to further information governance compliance needs.

With over a decade of eDiscovery experience, Ashley is a frequent speaker at conferences, continuing legal education (CLE) courses, seminars and webcasts. She addresses case law updates, best practices, and practice pointers for key phases of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). She also covers crucial trends in eDiscovery, including bring your own device (BYOD), social media, technology-assisted review (TAR) , cloud computing, ABA ethics rule changes and the proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Experience

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Directs use of artificial intelligence (AI) in discovery in innovative manners to efficiently and effectively process large quantities of data

Negotiates TAR protocols and litigates motions related to discovery disputes

Advises on collection methodology, search and retrieval methodology, FRE 502(d) orders, and production specifications

Develops internal and external discovery guidelines addressing each phase of EDRM, including innovative uses of AI, including TAR, predictive coding, advanced analytics and related forms of data evaluation and analysis

Negotiates discovery protocols with U.S. and state government agencies, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS-OIG), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as well as numerous state U.S. Attorneys' and Attorney Generals offices, and private parties

Litigates motions related to discovery disputes, including spoliation

Education and Credentials

Education
New England School of Law, J.D., New England Journal of International and Comparative Law, Executive Articles Editor
Goucher College, B.A.
Admissions
State of Connecticut
State of Maryland
U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
Affiliations
American Bar Association
The Sedona Conference, the leading think tank on law and practice relating to electronic discovery; Working Group 1 (WG1), Possession, Custody, or Control, Team Lead; Working Group 6 (WG6)
Women in eDiscovery
International Legal Technology Association
Connecticut Bar Association
Languages
Russian

Recognition and Community

Recognition

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Selected to the 500 X – The Next Generation list by Lawdragon, 2024

Recipient of a Legal Innovator & Disrupters Award by the Connecticut Law Tribune (ALM Media Properties, LLC), 2023

Selected to the "Young Professionals to Watch List" by the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), 2023

Community

Connecticut Ballet, Ambassador