Bree Kelly

Bree Kelly is a staff lawyer in the in the e-discovery analysis and technology (e-DAT) group and advises clients on a variety of electronic discovery and information governance issues.

Ms. Kelly’s e-discovery practice spans all manner of entities and industries, from small non-profits to large, multi-national corporations. Ms. Kelly advises clients regarding their obligations and options in all phases of a matter and leverages her substantial experience and K&L Gates’ robust e-discovery technologies to develop defensible, cost effective strategies to respond to the unique needs of each case. Ms. Kelly also counsels clients regarding pre-litigation readiness and discovery response preparation, to help ensure a timely, reasoned, and efficient response when a matter arises, particularly if unexpected.

In addition to her robust e-discovery practice, Ms. Kelly counsels clients in the areas of information governance and records management - including drafting records retention schedules and related policies and preparing and presenting employee training to support implementation of the same. Ms. Kelly’s work in these areas ranges from updating existing schedules and policies to creating new schedules and policies from scratch. In many instances, Ms. Kelly’s work also includes close cooperation with client representatives and employees to investigate and identify the needs of different offices or departments, to ensure comprehensive treatment of all relevant records and systems and to assist with underlying efforts to ensure ongoing compliance with any new policies or procedures moving forward.

Ms. Kelly is also a frequent and popular author and presenter regarding e-discovery and information governance issues and is very involved in the promulgation and analysis of the rules of civil procedure, both state and federal.