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 strategies and solutions for the unique efficiency and cost management challenges inherent in volume litigation. In addition, Ms. Kershaw provides opinions and recommendations for the management of legacy data.

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

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.

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.

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.

Over the past 22 years, Dan has assisted private attorneys, general counsel, high-level executives and corporate boards with some of the largest and most complex legal data exercises in the world, including tobacco litigation, the Enron matters and high profile criminal actions. He has led data and computer forensic teams responding to SEC, DOJ and OIG investigations. His data analytics experience includes matters of accounting fraud, internet/ecommerce disputes, bankruptcy, securities fraud, and labor and employment litigation. Dan also consults with in-house counsel on systems strategy, discovery strategy, records retention programs and matter management. Dan also serves as an expert witness on matters of electronic discovery, computer forensics, IT management and litigation readiness planning.

Dan received his J.D. from Villanova Law School in 1985 and his B.A. from the University of Illinois in 1982.