Introducing the Legal Data Intelligence Steering Committee
Author: LDI Team
Since its launch in May 2024, the Legal Data Intelligence movement has blossomed into a community of professionals eager to build a runway for success during a transformational time.
LDI founding members, Architects, and Ambassadors have worked together to create and share a collective vocabulary and build LDI model use cases for 20 pressing and complex legal challenges currently facing teams across industries. They’ve built a framework and a volume of content that legal practitioners can look to for the thought leadership, inspiration, and practical tools they need to deliver even more value to their organizations—particularly when faced with new and novel challenges.
As LDI's momentum continues to build, the need for a coordinated, strategic structure becomes more important. In the interest of delivering the highest quality guidance to the industry, we’ve established a new Legal Data Intelligence Steering Committee. This group is tasked with guiding the initiative’s vision, overseeing alignment across the model categories, and ensuring that our collective efforts advance the discipline of LDI in a meaningful and sustainable way.
Introducing the 2026 Steering Committee
Following a formal selection process, Steering Committee members were chosen to represent the diverse expertise and perspectives of the Legal Data Intelligence community, including LDI founding members, Architects, and Ambassadors.
We’re pleased to introduce LDI’s first Steering Committee:
- Omar Haroun – founding member
CEO & Co-founder, Eudia - Ashley Christakis – founding member
Senior Manager e-Discovery and Legal Operations, Crowdstrike - Bobby Malhotra – founding member and LDI Architect Lead
Litigation Partner, Winston & Strawn - Farrah Pepper – founding member
Chief Legal Innovation Counsel, Marsh McLennan - Brian Corbin – LDI Architect Lead
VP, Legal Solutions and Operational Excellence, Quislex - Josh Kreamer – founding member and LDI Architect Lead
Founder and CEO, Seedless - Briordy Meyers – founding member and LDI Architect Lead
Privacy Director, Capital One - Melina Efstathiou – LDI Architect Lead
- Kevin M. Clark – LDI Architect
Chief Executive Officer, Right Discovery - Richard Robinson – LDI Architect
Director of Client Success, Epiq - George Phillips – LDI Architect
Director of eData Development and Technology, Morgan Lewis - Marla Crawford – LDI Ambassador
General Counsel, Cimplifi
The committee will work to develop and maintain LDI-wide standards—operational, editorial, and strategic—to ensure consistency and guide the project’s continuous improvement while the way we work transforms.
What This Means for LDI Professionals
For legal professionals who want to leverage their existing legal, data, and technology skills to create more value for their organizations, view legal data as an opportunity rather than an obstacle, and advance their careers, the committee’s work—alongside the LDI founding members, Architects, and Ambassadors—will elevate the guidance and standards that come from the initiative and allow them to effectively respond to evolving industry dynamics.
Visit the LDI model and browse our Resources to learn how to bring strategic insights to light and tackle legal projects that have historically been too data-intensive to execute.