Written Discovery Practice After the 2025 Amendments

Ellen is recognized in Legal 500's US e-discovery rankings, where she is named alongside colleagues Andrea D'Ambra and David Kessler as part of Norton Rose Fulbright's e-discovery team; client commentary describes the three as a seamless team of well-informed, efficient, experienced professionals who guide communications and manage projects effectively. Legal 500 notes that she operates from Dallas and supports a range of data breach and cybersecurity incident matters. She was named a partner in Norton Rose Fulbright's 2026 global promotions round, announced December 11, 2025. She is described as a recognized thought leader who regularly speaks on panels and participates in podcasts on current industry topics, including data minimization, Second Requests, and artificial intelligence.

Ellen is active in The Sedona Conference, participating in Working Group 1 (Electronic Document Retention and Production), Working Group 6 (International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure), Working Group 11 (Data Security and Privacy Liability), and Working Group 13 (Artificial Intelligence). She is a Founding Board Member of the Mother Attorney Mentoring Association, USA, and served as Director of Outreach for the Mother Attorney Mentoring Association of Seattle from 2011 to 2016. Her CLE and panel speaking history includes engagements with the E-Discovery Institute, the Georgetown Advanced Discovery Institute, ACEDS, Westlaw, Legal Week, the Lighthouse Illuminations Summit, and Perkins Coie, on topics such as complex privilege issues, confidentiality designations, eDiscovery for incident response, and intrapreneurial innovation, primarily across 2021 and 2022.

Before joining Norton Rose Fulbright, Ellen served as Director of Discovery and Information Governance at an international telecommunications company, where she developed the strategic vision for discovery and led a team responsible for proactively managing electronic and document discovery for active litigation, including complex, high-stakes disputes such as mergers, government investigations, cyber investigations, and class actions. In that role she successfully managed the team responding to the regulatory requests stemming from the T-Mobile/Sprint merger approval. Earlier in her career, she was a litigator at Boies, Schiller & Flexner and served as Associate General Counsel and Director, eDiscovery Consulting at Evolver Legal Services. Her representative matters include leading a team that assisted a client in responding to a Second Request related to a large telecom merger investigation, working with co-counsel to produce over 3.5 million documents in a few short months; overseeing discovery strategy in a UK antitrust matter involving the production of over 750,000 documents for a large technology client while navigating complex US/UK privilege issues; and leading discovery strategy for a large telecom merger investigation and litigation, managing a team of eight attorneys and paralegals responsible for producing over 12 million pages and 11.5 TB of data from more than 85 custodians under an expedited timeframe.