Kirke Snyder JD, MSLA

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EXPERIENCE

Prior to Winchester Consulting Group, Mr. Snyder was and continues to be, a director at Chorus Consulting, LLC. in Houston, Texas. He has over 40 years of experience consulting to law firms and corporations on litigation e-discovery and information governance matters. Throughout his career, Kirke has worked with over 200 clients. Prior to Chorus Consulting, LLC, Kirke co-founded LECG’s and FTI's “Litigation e-Discovery Practices” and served as Director of Litigation Information Consulting at Deloitte & Touche in Houston, Texas.

Mr. Snyder has earned a J.D. degree, and M.S.L.A. degree in legal administration, and he has been certified as an Information Governance Professional. He has been a court recognized e-discovery expert and he has provided e-discovery training for numerous organizations including: ARMA International, The Colorado Bar Association Litigation Section and the international law firms of Greenburg Traurig, and McKenna, Long & Aldridge (now part of Dentons).    

EXAMPLES OF INFORMATION GOVERNANCE EXPERIENCE

· Interviewed the client’s key custodians (e.g., Tax Finance, Legal, HR) regarding their document retention requirements and regulatory issues

· Trained department Record Coordinators about protecting and maintaining their records

· Drafted corporate records retention policies and U.S. record retention schedules

· Created global record retention schedules

· Collaborated with client’s IT team to select an appropriate application and migrate records to the records repository application

· Recommended a strategy for reducing on-site and off-site storage of hardcopy documents

· Led a project to review and save vs destroy the contents of 1,000’s of boxes of documents at an offsite storage vendor

· Led a project to create a data map to identify the location, source, and use of documents/data containing personal information

· Led a project to create a data inventory of all electronic and hardcopy documents

· Collaborated with client Business Unit leaders to digitize their hardcopy records and destroy unnecessary or outdated information 

EXAMPLES E-DISCOVERY EXPERIENCE

· Assessed legal hold protocols for multiple clients and drafted updated practices

· Assisted a “rocket docket” judge to streamline the discovery process for 18 simultaneous latex glove litigations with multiple plaintiffs and multiple defendants

· Managed an e-discovery data collection as a court-recognized expert

· Led a team of computer forensic experts imaging hard drives and collecting data at a client location in China. This engagement required using foreign language translation software to defend a U.S. Federal Court antitrust litigation

· Led a team of technologists to collect and analyze data relevant in a global forensic accounting investigation

· Led a team of technologists to collect and analyze data relevant in an SEC investigation

· Led a team of technologists to collect and analyze data in support of a business insurance claim

· Led a team of technologists to collect and analyze data in support of a business insurance claim

· Assisted multiple oil & gas companies to create e-discovery document repositories for attorney review

· Collected electronically stored information from multiple locations and provided counsel with an “Early Data Assessment” in preparation for their Rule 26(f) Meet & Confer conference

· Managed teams of contract workers involved in client document scanning and coding projects 

EDUCATION

· Denver University Sturm College of Law, M.S.L.A. (Masters of Science in Legal Administration)

· Washburn University School of Law, J.D.

· Kansas University, B.S.

CERTIFICATIONS

· ARMA International, Certified Information Governance Professional (2016)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For twenty-two years, Kirke was an adjunct professor of law and ethics for MBA candidates at Regis University School for Professional Studies in Denver, Colorado.