Candice Kalis is a licensed attorney and Senior Consultant with over ten years of experience in eDiscovery. A former attorney with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and the Social Security Administration, Candice gained an in-depth knowledge of information law, specializing in actions under the FOIA statute. At CDS, she has steered litigation projects through the full EDRM lifecycle, managed attorney review teams, executed privilege reviews, and provided extensive end user training in Relativity, Ringtail, Brainspace, and other platforms. Candice specializes in developing customized eDiscovery solutions for government agencies. She recently designed and implemented a Relativity Pilot program for the Department of Commerce to address their backlog of FOIA requests.
Evan Benjamin is a Senior eDiscovery Strategist at CDS and enjoys sharing his wisdom and passion for blockchain technology, GDPR, and many of the more in-depth processes that make eDiscovery work behind the scenes.
As Client Director at CDS, Nicole advises attorneys and ediscovery practitioners on managing electronic data through the EDRM lifecycle. She is passionate about developing sophisticated workflows and takes a hands-on consultative approach. She draws on more than a decade of eDiscovery experience to advise clients on advanced analytics and litigation support technologies to efficiently investigate data, cull data volumes and implement cost-saving solutions. Nicole has also managed large-scale document review projects and assisted with privilege reviews and privilege log creation. She is a Relativity Certified Administrator.
As a Client Director, Brian Zimmermann manages workflows and provides high-level expertise to his clients. He has over 7 years of eDiscovery and legal experience and has consulted on multiple large matters for a variety of clients, including Am Law 100 firms, global financial services organizations and multi-national pharmaceutical companies. In his time with CDS, he has managed challenging eDiscovery matters including second requests, significant multi-district litigation and large class action cases. Brian is a licensed attorney in the state of Illinois.
Louis Cona is the forensic services manager at CDS and has 8 years’ experience in the field of digital forensics. His main duties include complex data collections, computer forensic investigations and the training of team members in the use of forensic and eDiscovery software and hardware solutions. Additionally, Louis provides consulting services in the areas of forensic data collection, data management & analysis, and eDiscovery best practices. Louis holds a BS in Computer Information Systems (Networking Security & Digital Forensics) and is ACE and EnCE certified.
Bill has 25 years of experience as a partner, shareholder and board member of AmLaw 200 law firms, including Williams Mullen where he built one of the first law firm eDiscovery practices. For the last 10 years Bill has participated in and now runs a Corporate-Only Roundtable where corporate eDiscovery teams, judges and industry experts have met to share experiences and discuss emerging challenges and solutions that combine technological and legal solutions.
In his role as General Counsel for CDS, Mr. Medina is responsible for the overall legal affairs of the company, including drafting and negotiating a wide variety of commercial contracts, advising executive management on corporate strategic initiatives and employment matters, managing litigations, and directing CDS’ compliance and risk management posture in all areas of the business.
Devon Crosbie is a UNC School of Law graduate and Relativity Master who began his career as a licensed attorney and eDiscovery/litigation support professional in 2007. Since then, he has been strategically leveraging a broad array of tools – while coordinating all aspects of the EDRM process, from data retention, collection, privacy, and security, through production and presentation – to help clients and internal teams alike produce defensible, effective workflows and results.
As Managing Director, EMEA, Mark Anderson provides project management and expert consulting through all stages of eDisclosure and eDiscovery. Mark also leads the development of CDS Convert, a proprietary tool which analyzes short message data from more than 35 data sources and makes it easy to review in popular eDiscovery platforms. He has supervised multinational teams on large, complex cross-border matters. He holds multiple Relativity certifications including Relativity Master and is an Encase Certified Examiner.
