Anne 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. Ms. Kershaw continually tracks and tests new technological developments and applications. Combining her legal experience with thorough situation analysis and management techniques, Ms. Kershaw's specialty is in finding cost-effective solutions for the unique efficiency and cost management challenges inherent in volume litigation. In addition, Ms. Kershaw consults in individual cases on electronic data discovery issues and FRCP 30(b)(6) technology depositions.

Ms. Kershaw is also involved in federal civil rules reform to address electronic discovery issues and provided electronic discovery survey data and testimony before the Federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee. She is the author of numerous articles and is a member of The Sedona Conference® Working Group on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention and Production RFP+ Group.

Ms. Kershaw is a Faculty Member of Columbia University's Executive Master of Science in Technology Management and is also an Advisory Board Member of the Georgetown University Law Center's Advanced E-Discovery Institute.

Anne Kershaw has an AV+ rating in Martindale Hubbell.

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As A. Kershaw, P.C.'s Senior Legal Analyst, Annette M. Fabrizi brings wide-ranging experience from a litigation perspective arising from her work as a case manager on a high profile national tobacco litigation at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and as a Senior Legal Analyst at Philip Morris USA, where she managed and coordinated in-house document collection and review for use in current and ongoing litigation. Mrs. Fabrizi experience includes work on all phases of corporate litigation defense practices from the inception of a case to trial.

Annette Fabrizi earned her B.A. in Psychology in 1995 from Manhattan College. Mrs. Fabrizi is also a graduate of The Philadelphia Institute of Paralegals where she specialized in Corporate Finance and Business Law. In addition, she completed her MBA in 2001 at Manhattan College's Masters of Business Administration Program with a specialty in Finance and Management.

Shelley Podolny acquired her finely-tuned management skills and business acumen from a diverse background in leadership roles ranging from those in brokerage, investment banking and litigation support systems to market research. Her balanced perspective and singular approach to each project derive from excellent organizational, technical and communication skills. She is also an accomplished team-builder whose demonstrated ability to motivate and trouble-shoot makes her an effective negotiator and problem solver. Ms. Podolny has experience with large-scale project planning, coordination and resource management and a proven track record in meeting deadlines and budget goals.

Ms. Podolny is committed to staying fluent in the rapidly expanding software universe and her training in interface and information design makes her especially sensitive to the human needs of software users. She can also draw upon extensive mainframe programming expertise.

With a B.A., cum laude, in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, Ms. Podolny is also a graduate of the New York University Data Processing and Systems Analysis Institute. In addition, she attended New York University's stellar Master of Professional Studies Program in Interactive Telecommunications.

Mary Lowengard supplements the work of A. Kershaw, P.C. through offering the communications skills that are critical to project development and management, particularly in the litigation arena. As an advisor to senior executives of leading Fortune 50 corporations, Ms. Lowengard's expertise ranges from marketing to investor relations to strategic planning. Her scope of experience includes executive-level speech writing, white papers, public relations plans, Internet-related studies, press releases, annual reports, brochures, newsletters, marketing surveys and by-lined articles. Additionally, she has helped implement forums, events and analyst meetings.

Mary Lowengard earned an M.B.A. in 1986 from the University of California at Los Angeles John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management, and an M.A. in 1977 from Teacher's College of Columbia University in New York City. Her B.A. was awarded with honors in Politics in 1974 from the Washington Square College of New York University.

Ryan P. Schmelz was the Founder and Managing Partner of a successful IT management consultancy, whose services include extensive outsourcing facilitation work. He has more than 25 years of experience in Information Services, Technology and Financial Services, serving clients in multiple industries. He's experienced in leading varied functions, including Systems Development and Operations, Marketing, Sales, Administration, Human Resources, Finance and Legal. His management consulting experience encompasses Strategy, Outsourcing, IT Effectiveness, Program Management, Management Contracts, and Business Process Reengineering.

He also has senior executive experience in information services and software vendors and he has experience in Intellectual Property and business contracts law... Mr. Schmelz is the co-founder of Reasonable Discovery LLC, a research and services organization focused on improving performance in electronic data discovery. Mr. Schmelz led Merrill Lynch Capital Markets' Computer Services Group; served as the Officer leading Freddie Mac’s Business Process Reengineering initiatives; was VP of Systems Development for A.C. Nielsen; and SVP and General Counsel for Remote Computing Corporation, a national information processing services provider.

Consulting clients include Airlines Reporting Corporation, Sears, Amdahl, CSS Industries, Fiduciary Trust, Golden Books, Honeywell, ING, Intuit, Legato Systems, PMI, Towers Perrin, Transamerica and Tsumura International. Mr. Schmelz holds a JD from the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, MBA from San Jose State University and BA in Political Science from the University of South Dakota. He's a member of the Capital Area Chapter of the Society for Information Management and the California State Bar.

Michael W. Mallory brings 17 years of experience as a litigating attorney in State and Federal courts. Prior to 2005, Mike developed an expertise in the management of large document reviews and production in complex class actions, mass toxic torts, environmental, and products liability litigation for Global Fortune 10 clients such as British Petroleum (BP). Other representative clients include Amoco, Vastar, Atlantic Richfield (ARCO), Dorr-Oliver (ARCO), Underwriters and Lloyds of London, GM, and Toyota. Mike has since re-established his career in Washington, D.C. He is a registered attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Mike graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Computer Science before attending Georgetown University Law School.

From a career with Ford Motor Company spanning more than 32 years, Gary Hayden offers a wealth of experience. He spent his first 12 years at Ford on the business side, in the areas of corporate finance, accounting, and tax. For the past 20 years, he worked in Ford and Ford Credit's Office of General Counsel in a variety of capacities. Gary helped re-engineer Ford's record management program, making the program more practical and usable, and updating the program to reflect current technology. He managed Ford's discovery in the Firestone/Explorer litigation, employing a strategy of using a web-based document repository to enable simultaneous production of a massive volume of documents to multiple constituencies. He was Deputy Director of Global Legal Compliance and Strategy for Ford, and Associate General Counsel for Global Financing for Ford Credit. In those assignments, Gary was responsible for compliance with global privacy laws and regulations, OFAC, money laundering, FCPA, and state and federal consumer finance laws and regulations.

Gary is a summa cum laude graduate of Michigan State University College of Law, and also has an MBA in finance from Wayne State University.