Alicia M. Hawley is Of Counsel in the Chicago office of K&L Gates, where she practices in the firm’s e-Discovery Analysis & Technology (e-DAT) group. An experienced litigator and white-collar criminal defense attorney, Certified eDiscovery Specialist, and award-winning innovator, Alicia has nearly two decades of experience counseling clients on both routine and complex eDiscovery issues, best practices, case and narrative development, and fact investigations. She regularly serves as coordinating discovery counsel on major litigations and government investigations and counsels the firm and clients on all phases of the EDRM, including implementing defensible preservation practices and litigation holds, managing evolving data sources and communication tools, navigating complex legal issues such as possession, custody and control, privilege, proportionality, and Rule 37(e) sanctions, negotiating ESI protocols, and leveraging technology and artificial intelligence to identify and analyze key documents.