LDI Architects Program: Applicants Chosen to Shape the Evolution of the Legal Data Intelligence Model

The Legal Data Intelligence model was formally launched in May this year, and in the last seven months alone, a large and passionate community of LDI practitioners and supporters has organically grown within the legal firmament. To continue to build on our work as LDI founding members, we announced in September that we were accepting applications for a new program called LDI Architects.

The LDI model was launched as a nascent framework; it was intended to be modified and developed further in response to feedback from the LDI community and the changing needs of the legal industry. The LDI Architects program is a way to formally leverage the expertise of the LDI community, incorporate their inputs, and enhance the model for the benefit of the legal industry at large.

Officially, LDI Architects are volunteers who make up the working teams for each of the model’s use case categories—Disputes & Investigations, Corporate, Data Protection Compliance, and Business of Law. Each Architect team is led by two LDI founding members, and their purpose is to flesh out existing LDI use case models, develop additional use case models, and build a corpus of thought leadership that can crystallize the value provided by the LDI model.

We received a groundswell of interest from legal professionals keen to join this collective effort to shape the evolution of the Legal Data Intelligence model. The number and strength of the applications we received made the selection process highly competitive and our decisions difficult. We sincerely thank everyone who took the time to apply.

After a thorough review of each application and much discussion, the results are now in! We’ve chosen 33 LDI Architects for the program’s 2025 cohort. The following is a list of LDI Architects grouped by the model use case category they will be working on:

Disputes & Investigations

• Danny Chan (Senior eDiscovery Case Manager, Miller Thompson)
• Kevin Clark (CEO, Right Discovery)
• Melina Efstatiou (Head of Litigation Technology, Eversheds Sutherland)
• Laura Fichet (Senior eDiscovery Program Manager, Oracle)
• Matthew Hamilton (Of Counsel Morgan Lewis eData Practice Group)
• Tristan Jenkinson (Owner and Author, eDiscovery Channel)
• Chuck Kellner (Strategic Discovery Advisor, Everlaw)
• Daniel Miller (Senior Counsel, eDiscovery and Information Governance, Coinbase)
• Jeanne Somma (Chief Client Officer & General Counsel, Lineal)

Business of Law

• Brian Corbin (VP, Legal Solutions and Operational Excellence, QuisLex)
• Kayann Fitzgerald (Director of eDiscovery and Practice Technologies, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP)
• Lourdes Fuentes (Founder and CEO, Karta Legal)
• Jason Kairalla (Lawyer in Residence, Prevail Legal Inc)
• Michael Mendola (Director, eDiscovery and Data Governance, Discover Financial Services)
• Carl Morrison (Chief of Staff, Legal Data Intelligence Strategist, modCounsel)
• Richard Robinson (Director, Legal Operations and Litigation Support, Toyota Motor North America)
• Alexander Simonenko (Senior Lead Manager, eDiscovery, LinkedIn)

Data Protection Compliance

• Joseph Bartolo (Director, The Project Consultant)
• Ryan Costello (Director of Program Management, Advisory Services, HaystackID)
• Chris Haley (VP, Practice Empowerment, Relativity)
• Michael Kearney (Counsel, Redgrave LLP)
• Rachel McAdams (Engagement Director, ProSearch)
• George Phillips (Director of eData Development and Technology, Morgan Lewis)
• Lisa Ripley (Senior Director, eDiscovery and Information Governance, Oracle)
• Rob Robinson (Chief Marketing Officer, HaystackID)
• Michael Sarlo (Chief Innovation Officer & President of Global Investigations and Cyber Incident Response Services, HaystackID)

Corporate

• Odette Claridge (Senior Project Manager, ProSearch)
• Tim Kurucz (Senior Service Transformation Manager, AstraZeneca)
• Tara Lawler (Partner, Morgan Lewis)
• Jenya Moshkovich (Assistant General Counsel, GlobaleDiscovery Counsel, Genentech)
• Virginia Ring (Principal, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP)
• Jack Thompson (Director, eDiscovery & Legal Operations)
• Nicholas Wittenberg (Corporate Counsel and Senior Advisor for Legal Technology and Innovation, Armedia)

A hearty congratulations to all the LDI Architects!

Once again, we’d like to extend our sincere thanks to all those who took the time and effort to apply to the LDI Architects program.

Over the next year, LDI Architects will be actively working with LDI founding members in their designated categories to actively create, debate, and refine the LDI model and the workflows, technologies, and metrics associated with each use case.

With legal professionals from a diversity of backgrounds and practice areas increasingly converging on Legal Data Intelligence as a standardized vocabulary and framework, it’s now more important than ever to further develop the model in response to changing needs and trends within the legal landscape.

Our 2025 cohort of LDI Architects will have the opportunity to lead the refinement and creation of LDI model use cases for the benefit of our entire legal community. We can’t wait to get started!

To learn more about how LDI practitioners are leveraging their skillsets to solve intractable legal data challenges, check out two recent blog posts and case studies: 1) Webinar Recap: Changing the Paradigm with Legal Data Intelligence; and 2) Legal Data Intelligence Lessons from Relativity Fest: Part 1.