CLE and CEDS Credit Applications Are Pending

CLEF CON 2026 is pending CLE approval in Tennessee and Minnesota. CLE is sponsored by Angeion. CEDS continuing education credit approval is pending from ACEDS.

Credit amounts, eligibility details, and attendance instructions will be shared once approvals are finalized.

Once approvals are finalized, this section will be updated with available credit information and any attendee instructions needed to claim credit.

Meet the CLEF CON 2026 Speakers

CLEF CON 2026 brings together plaintiff-side practitioners, eDiscovery leaders, and litigation professionals for two days of skill-building, strategy, and practical discussion.

Speakers are listed alphabetically by last name. Click “Read Bio” to learn more about the experience each speaker brings to Nashville.

Rebekah Bailey

Partner
Nichols Kaster, PLLP

Rebekah L. Bailey is a partner at Nichols Kaster in Minneapolis and a fifteen-year advocate for whistleblowers, workers, and consumers in complex qui tam actions, class actions, and civil rights litigation. She chairs the firm's eDiscovery committee, developing internal policies and tools that plaintiffs' firms increasingly look to as models. Her leadership positions include the Steering Committee for the Sedona Conference's Working Group 1, the board of the Complex Litigation E-Discovery Forum (CLEF), the EDRM Global Advisory Council, and the advisory board for Georgetown's Advanced eDiscovery Institute. She also chairs the U.S. District of Minnesota's Federal Practice Committee. Bailey has been named to Lawdragon's 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Lawyers list every year since 2018 and to the Top Women Attorneys in Minnesota list since 2014. She earned the ABA-BNA Award for Excellence in Labor and Employment Law in 2008.

Ben Barnett

Partner
Seeger Weiss LLP

Ben Barnett is a partner in Seeger Weiss's Philadelphia office and one of the nation's most recognized eDiscovery attorneys, ranked in Chambers USA every year since 2011. He joined Seeger Weiss in 2024 after more than two decades at Dechert, where he chaired the Product Liability and Mass Tort group, co-chaired Complex Commercial Litigation, and led the firm's eDiscovery Advisory Team. Now on the plaintiffs' side, Barnett is proving that eDiscovery can be wielded strategically to accelerate resolution: he served as ESI Liaison in the AT&T Data Breach MDL, where the parties negotiated a Preservation Order, Rule 502(d) Order, and ESI Protocol in three months, and as ESI Discovery Liaison in Alford v. NFL Player Disability Plan. He also consults on Allergan Breast Implant, Insulin Pricing, and Philips CPAP. Barnett won the 2020 Financial Times North American Innovation Lawyer Award for his work on the Airbus investigation.

Lea Bays

Partner
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP

Lea Malani Bays is a Partner at Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd in San Diego. Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd specializes in representing plaintiffs in complex securities fraud, antitrust, and consumer protection litigation. Lea currently focuses on the firm’s electronic discovery issues from preservation through production and efficient analysis of incoming productions. She is familiar with best practices for the various stages of electronic discovery, including identification of relevant electronically stored information, data culling, search protocols and predictive coding protocols, privilege and responsiveness reviews, and post-production discovery through trial preparation for a wide range of litigation.

Collin Bentley

Founder and Director of Forensic and eDiscovery Services
IronOak Discovery

Collin Bentley founded IronOak Discovery to bring precision forensic strategy to high-stakes litigation. As Founder and Director of Forensic and eDiscovery Services, he has spent over 20 years advising law firms and corporations on complex electronic discovery, digital forensics, and data-driven investigations, leading hundreds of matters involving the identification, preservation, and analysis of large data sets. A Certified Computer Examiner (CCE) and Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS), Bentley has provided expert testimony, authored forensic reports, and submitted affidavits in matters spanning computer forensics and mobile evidence. He has been a member of the Sedona Conference Working Group 1 for over two decades, shaping the standards that govern how ESI is preserved and produced. Before founding IronOak, he built forensic and eDiscovery practices at Xact Data Discovery, Omnivere, and Intelligent Discovery Management. His work anchors IronOak's reputation for defensible strategy in matters where the evidence trail decides the case.

Kaleigh Boyd

Attorney, Litigation & Trial Practice Group
McNaul Ebel

Kaleigh N. Boyd represents plaintiffs in consumer protection class actions nationwide from McNaul Ebel's Seattle office, serving as lead, co-lead, or executive committee counsel in numerous data breach and consumer class actions. She is one of few plaintiffs' class action lawyers who has tried a class to verdict: as co-lead trial counsel in Larsen v. PTT, LLC, she secured a federal jury award of $17.7 million in actual damages and over $7 million in enhanced damages under Washington's Consumer Protection Act for a class of consumers who spent money on the defendant's illegal gambling games. Boyd also handles commercial and partnership disputes, and has served as lead or co-lead counsel in jury and bench trials in state and federal court. She clerked for Hon. Robert H. Cleland in the Eastern District of Michigan after graduating with high honors from the University of Washington School of Law.

Suzanne Clark

Discovery Counsel
Beasley Allen Law Firm

Suzanne H. Clark graduated from the University of Florida and began her legal career in 2002. She received her Certified eDiscovery Specialist designation from ACEDS in 2014 and transitioned to a full-time focus on e-discovery where she has become a nationally recognized speaker and panelist in e-discovery education. Suzanne works remotely from Jacksonville as Discovery Counsel for the Mass Torts Section of Beasley Allen Law Firm's Montgomery home office. Suzanne’s role at Beasley Allen is to assist the 36 mass torts attorneys with discovery, especially relating to ESI. In furtherance of this concentration, she has earned the Mass-Tort MDL Certificate from the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law. Suzanne is a frequent lecturer at eDiscovery educational events, including the annual University of Florida College of Law eDiscovery Conference where she serves on the Planning Committee. From 2019 to 2020, Suzanne served as an Associate Professor at Samford University, Cumberland School of Law, where she taught ESI I: Introduction to E-Discovery and ESI II: Discovery to students earning their Master of Studies of Law. Suzanne co-founded the Jacksonville chapter of ACEDS in 2014 and continues to serve on its board. She has also served in leadership roles with CLEF, the Jacksonville Bar Association, the Jacksonville Women Lawyers Association, and EDRM.

Patricia Dana

Associate Attorney
Nichols Kaster PLLP

Patricia C. Dana represents current and former employees whose retirement accounts have been shortchanged by excessive fees, imprudent investments, employer self-dealing, and general mismanagement, as a member of Nichols Kaster's ERISA litigation team. Her class action practice targets fiduciary breaches that quietly drain workers' hard-earned savings, holding plan sponsors and financial institutions accountable for the standards ERISA requires. Before joining Nichols Kaster, Dana clerked for Justice Anne McKeig on the Minnesota Supreme Court and for Judge Michael Browne in Hennepin County District Court. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of St. Thomas School of Law, where she received the Judge Earl R. Larson Award for excellence in the study of federal law and practice, and served on the University of St. Thomas Law Journal. Her earlier legal experience includes an internship at Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid and work at a top Minneapolis law firm.

Kate Dunnington

Founder
Kate Dunnington Law, PLLC

Kate Dunnington founded Kate Dunnington Law, PLLC in Louisville after 12 years at Becker Law Office, where she rose from associate to equity partner in 2019 and helped clients recover more than $100 million in mass tort, medical negligence, nursing home negligence, product liability, and catastrophic injury cases. Her firm continues that trial work while expanding into eDiscovery consulting, where she partners with plaintiffs' firms as co-counsel or behind-the-scenes strategist. A Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS) through ACEDS, Dunnington has drafted, negotiated, and litigated ESI protocols in courts across the country, cross-examined discovery experts, and served on the panel examining 2026 case law on AI, sanctions, and ESI protocols at the Sedona Conference Working Group 1 Midyear Meeting. She approaches eDiscovery as a courtroom-hardened litigator who understands the end game, not as a technician. Best Lawyers named her Ones to Watch in 2024.

Karin Garvey

Partner; Co-Chair, Antitrust and Competition Practice Group
Scott + Scott

Karin Garvey is a partner in Scott+Scott's New York office and co-chair of the firm's Antitrust and Competition practice group, with 25 years representing plaintiffs and defendants in complex antitrust class actions. She serves as Interim Co-Lead Counsel for a proposed class of direct purchasers in a nationwide antitrust action against the largest frozen potato product manufacturers, alleging a coordinated 40 percent price hike on french fries and tater tots. Garvey was co-lead counsel in Fusion Elite All Stars v. Varsity Brands, which settled for $43.5 million and significant injunctive relief for classes harmed by monopolization in All Star Cheer. She has tried multiple antitrust cases to verdict, briefed and argued appeals, and spent 18 years on the defense side before moving to plaintiffs' work, giving her a strategic edge her clients rely on. Chambers ranks her Band 2 New York for Antitrust: Mainly Plaintiff (2021-2025).

Nick Kohrs

Discovery Counsel
Beasley Allen Law Firm

Nick Kohrs brings discovery counsel precision to Beasley Allen, one of the nation's largest plaintiffs' firms, where he focuses on mass tort litigation currently spanning Hair Relaxer, Kratom, and Ozempic cases. He leads strategy for identifying, preserving, and producing electronically stored information in matters where the data challenges rival the underlying science. Kohrs cut his teeth on the BP Oil Spill litigation, sifting through millions of pages to build the evidentiary foundation that helped Gulf Coast communities recover. He holds Everlaw Project Manager Certifications across Reviewer, Storybuilder, Data Operations, and Managing Review, along with the ACEDS eDiscovery Executive and Technology certifications. Kohrs serves in the Sedona Conference Working Group 1 and the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, shaping the frameworks other plaintiffs' teams rely on. A Loyola New Orleans law graduate, he is a member of the American Association for Justice.

Aaron Marks

Associate, Antitrust Practice
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC

Aaron J. Marks brings deep antitrust and multi-district class action experience to Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, one of the country's leading plaintiffs' firms. He represents individuals, businesses, and public entities in high-stakes civil litigation targeting anticompetitive conduct across pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and consumer markets. Marks was part of the Cohen Milstein team appointed Co-Lead Class Counsel in Baltimore v. Actelion Pharmaceuticals, which secured preliminary approval of a $65 million settlement in March 2026 after alleging Actelion suppressed generic competition for its pulmonary arterial hypertension drug. He edits the D.C. chapter of the American Bar Association's The Law of Class Action: Fifty-State Survey and serves on the NYC Bar's Antitrust & Trade Regulation Committee. A Harvard Law graduate and former clerk to Hon. Carol Bagley Amon in the Eastern District of New York, Marks was named a New York Rising Star by Super Lawyers in 2024 and 2025.

Annika Martin

Partner; Head of Sexual Abuse Survivors Practice Group
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP

Annika K. Martin is a partner in Lieff Cabraser's New York office and head of the firm's Sexual Abuse Survivors Practice Group. Since 2005, she has represented plaintiffs in environmental, mass tort, consumer protection, and sexual abuse cases, from Deepwater Horizon through the historic $215 million USC/Tyndall settlement that reshaped how institutions handle predator physicians. Martin currently leads litigation against xAI alleging its Grok generator is used to create sexual abuse imagery of real children, and previously served as Interim Class Counsel in the University of Michigan/Anderson matter. She co-founded the Complex Litigation E-Discovery Forum and serves on the Sedona Conference Working Group 1 Leadership Council. Chambers USA ranks her Band 1 in E-Discovery & Information Governance for Plaintiffs (2025-2026). Martin brings journalistic instinct to complex, institution-changing litigation.

Farhad Mirzadeh

Counsel
Hausfeld

S. Farhad Mirzadeh is Counsel in Hausfeld's Washington, DC office, promoted in 2026, where he represents clients in high-stakes antitrust, commercial, and sports and entertainment litigation. He has appeared in court against leading technology and media companies, helping secure substantial settlements and jury verdicts for classes harmed by anticompetitive conduct. Mirzadeh was part of the trial team in In re NFL's Sunday Ticket Antitrust Litigation, representing residential and commercial subscribers alleging that the NFL and its teams suppressed competition through their media-rights agreements. He co-authored "Getting to Yes: Antitrust Class Settlements from a Plaintiffs' Point of View" for the ABA Antitrust Section's 14th International Cartel Workshop, and speaks and writes regularly on sports law, emerging antitrust trends, and complex discovery issues. A George Washington University Law graduate, Mirzadeh is valued for creative strategy and the ability to translate complex legal theories into meaningful results.

Brittany Resch

Partner
Strauss Borrelli PLLC

Brittany Resch is a partner in Strauss Borrelli's Minneapolis office, prosecuting consumer class actions against major corporations for privacy, consumer protection, product liability, and data breach violations. Since 2016 she has litigated on behalf of consumers and small businesses in cases spanning the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act, state right-to-privacy statutes, and product mislabeling. Resch is part of the Strauss Borrelli team representing plaintiffs in the Capital One data disclosure class action against Meta and Google in the Northern District of California, and has served as counsel in the MarineMax and Centerspace data breach class settlements. Prior to joining Turke & Strauss in 2022, she was an attorney at Gustafson Gluek, a Minneapolis class action boutique. She clerked for Judge Richard H. Kyle in the District of Minnesota and teaches E-Discovery as an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Pearl Robertson

Partner
Irpino Avin & Hawkins

Pearl A. Robertson is a partner at Irpino Avin & Hawkins in New Orleans, where her practice focuses on mass tort and class action litigation across products liability, consumer class actions, drug and device litigation, and public nuisance. She specializes in the pre-trial discovery matters that decide MDLs: ESI disputes, discovery negotiations, and privilege and confidentiality challenges. Since 2018, Robertson and founding partner Anthony Irpino have led the privilege and confidentiality committees in MDL 2804, In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation, producing more than 30 published privilege rulings. She was appointed to the discovery committee to lead privilege and confidentiality in the Philips CPAP MDL, and to the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee leading privilege efforts in the Abbott Preterm Infant Nutrition MDL. Robertson is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and multiple federal circuits, and earned her JD at Loyola University New Orleans.

Maria Salacuse

Assistant General Counsel
EEOC

Maria Salacuse is the Assistant General Counsel, eDiscovery & Information Governance, at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. As the agency’s lead eDiscovery counsel, she oversees the EEOC’s litigation support department and provides strategic advice and training to attorneys, paralegals, and legal support staff on the use, retention, storage, retrieval, and preservation of electronically stored information in pending litigation. Prior to assuming this position, she was a Supervisory Trial Attorney in EEOC’s Baltimore Field Office, where she litigated individual and systemic discrimination cases for 20 years, many of which involved ESI matters. She has also served as Trial Attorney, Attorney Advisor, and Administrative Judge within the EEOC. Maria is active with the Federal Bar Association, the Federal eDiscovery Working Group, and The Sedona Conference Working Groups 1 and 13, and is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer on e-discovery matters.

Stephen Teti

Partner
Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P.

Steve Teti is a partner in Lockridge Grindal Nauen's Boston office and lead attorney for LGN's Boston practice, working across the firm's Antitrust, E-Discovery, and Generative AI groups. Elevated to partner in 2025, Teti has significant experience drafting and arguing dispositive motions, taking depositions, and leading massive discovery efforts in complex plaintiffs' cases. He and partner Joe Bourne were named to the plaintiffs' steering committee in In re Construction Equipment Rental Antitrust Litigation, a national action alleging that major rental providers conspired with information-sharing platform Rouse Services to artificially inflate rental prices. Teti serves as a Board Member of the Complex Litigation E-Discovery Forum and belongs to the ABA Antitrust Section and the Sedona Conference. He graduated magna cum laude from Quinnipiac University School of Law, served as Publications Editor of the Quinnipiac Law Review, and clerked for the judges of the Connecticut Superior Court.

Lyzette Wallace

Discovery Counsel, Securities Litigation & Investor Protection
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC

Lyzette Wallace is Discovery Counsel in Cohen Milstein's Securities Litigation & Investor Protection practice, where she leads discovery, evidentiary, and deposition preparation for cases against major corporations. She brings deep experience in government investigations involving the SEC, DOJ, FCC, FTC, FDA, and state attorneys general across financial services, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and healthcare. Wallace was part of the team representing a whistleblower against a brand pharmaceutical manufacturer that produced what was then the largest healthcare fraud settlement in DOJ history. She serves on the Complex Litigation E-Discovery Forum (CLEF) board of directors and on the Sedona Conference Working Group 1 drafting team for the "Commentary on Enhancing the Effectiveness of Rule 26(f) Conferences." A Stanford undergraduate and Howard Law graduate, Wallace has previously represented healthcare insurers against brand pharmaceutical manufacturers in antitrust class actions and defended clients in high-stakes regulatory investigations.