CLEF is led by accomplished plaintiff-side litigators and e-discovery professionals committed to advancing excellence in complex litigation. Our leadership includes attorneys and discovery practitioners with experience across antitrust, civil rights, consumer protection, mass torts, data privacy, and other high-stakes matters involving electronically stored information, discovery strategy, and large-scale litigation.
Together, they help shape CLEF’s mission to support plaintiff attorneys with practical insight, strategic leadership, and a professional community focused on the evolving demands of modern litigation, plaintiff-side e-discovery, and data-driven case development.
Executive Officers
CLEF’s officers guide the organization’s strategy, governance, and ongoing commitment to plaintiff-side success in complex litigation and e-discovery.
Rebekah Bailey
President
Partner at Nichols Kaster with experience in whistleblower, civil rights, class action, and e-discovery matters.
Suzanne Clark, CEDS
Secretary
Discovery Counsel at Beasley Allen focused on mass tort discovery, ESI strategy, and e-discovery education.
Stephen Teti
Treasurer
Partner at Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP with a practice spanning antitrust, e-discovery, and generative AI.
Board of Directors
CLEF’s Board of Directors reflects the depth of experience shaping plaintiff-side litigation today, with backgrounds spanning antitrust, class actions, consumer protection, civil rights, mass torts, and discovery leadership.
Lea Bays
Director
Partner at Robbins Geller focused on electronic discovery, review strategy, predictive coding, and trial preparation.
James Bilsborrow
Director
Co-chair at Weitz & Luxenberg with nationwide experience in environmental, toxic tort, and consumer litigation.
Mikaela Bock
Director
Represents injured consumers and purchasers in antitrust, online advertising, and consumer credit reporting matters.
Jeannine M. Kenney
Director
Hausfeld partner recognized for plaintiff-side e-discovery, information governance, antitrust, and data breach litigation.
Greg M. Kohn
Director
Partner at Nagel Rice with experience in complex civil litigation, jury trials, and firmwide e-discovery leadership.
Kelly McNabb
Director
Partner at Lieff Cabraser and Partner-in-Charge of ESI with deep experience in product liability and mass tort litigation.
Maria Salacuse
Director
Assistant General Counsel at the EEOC focused on e-discovery, information governance, and litigation support strategy.
Lyzette Wallace
Director
Discovery counsel at Cohen Milstein with experience across antitrust, securities, False Claims Act, and investigations.
Founding Recognition
CLEF honors the individuals whose vision helped establish a dedicated forum for plaintiff-side attorneys navigating e-discovery and complex litigation.
Longtime plaintiffs’ attorney whose work in mass tort, consumer, environmental, and sexual abuse litigation helped shape CLEF’s foundation.
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Rebekah Bailey
Rebekah is a partner at Nichols Kaster in Minneapolis where she primarily represents whistleblowers in complex qui tam government fraud matters and class actions in civil rights litigation across the country. Rebekah co-chairs her firm’s eDiscovery committee.
Rebekah is the Chair of the District of Minnesota's Federal Practice Committee, a member of Georgetown’s Advanced eDiscovery Institute’s Advisory Board, the EDRM’s Global Advisory Council, and a former member of The Sedona Conference’s Working Group 1 Steering Committee.
She is a founding member of her firm’s civil rights and impact litigation team and consumer class action group, and she has spoken at national conferences on topics including e-discovery, false claims, retaliation, arbitration, class actions, equal pay, and wage and hour issues.
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Suzanne Clark, CEDS
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.
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Stephen Teti
Steve Teti is a Partner at Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP in the firm’s Boston office. Steve practices in the firm’s Antitrust, E-Discovery, and Generative AI groups. Steve has significant experience drafting and arguing dispositive motions, taking depositions, working on complex e-discovery matters, and leading massive discovery efforts.
Steve is a Board Member of the Complex Litigation E-Discovery Forum, which is a forum for plaintiffs-side complex litigation attorneys to discuss best practices for e-discovery. Steve is also a member of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section and The Sedona Conference.
Steve graduated magna cum laude from the Quinnipiac University School of Law, where he served as Publications Editor of the Quinnipiac Law Review. After law school, Steve clerked for the judges of the Connecticut Superior Court and then practiced antitrust, securities, and consumer class litigation at nationally recognized plaintiffs’ law firms in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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Lea Bays
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.
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James Bilsborrow
James Bilsborrow is co-chair of Weitz & Luxenberg P.C.'s Environmental, Toxic Tort & Consumer Protection group, having joined the firm in 2011.
Mr. Bilsborrow represents victims of environmental contamination, toxic exposure, and defective products in complex litigation nationwide. Mr. Bilsborrow also represents farmers whose crops have been damaged by defective herbicides and other chemical applications, as well as clients who have developed diseases from their exposure to toxic pesticides.
Prior to joining Weitz & Luxenberg, Mr. Bilsborrow worked as a law clerk for Hon. D. Brooks Smith of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals and Hon. Christopher C. Conner of the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania. He belongs to several professional organizations, including the New York City Bar Association, the New York Federal Bar Council, the Fellows of the American Bar Association, and the American Association for Justice.
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Mikaela Bock
Mikaela advocates for injured consumers and other purchasers in complex civil litigation, including the California Gasoline Spot Market Antitrust Litigation, an antitrust case alleging manipulation of the spot market for gasoline in California. She also represents advertisers suing Google for monopolizing online advertising markets and consumers whose credit was inaccurately reported by Equifax.
During law school, Mikaela externed in the Northern District of California and was the national champion of the Evan A. Evans Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition. She previously worked for Teach for America, teaching seventh graders in East Palo Alto, California.
Mikaela has also volunteered with the Federal Pro Bono Project of the Bar Association of San Francisco, representing a plaintiff who alleged the San Francisco Zen Center discriminated against him in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Jeannine M. Kenney
Jeannine, who received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center magna cum laude, joined Hausfeld upon its inception in 2009. Her practice focuses primarily on private enforcement of federal and state antitrust laws, data breach, and class actions.
Since 2021, Jeannine has been ranked by Chambers USA for E-Discovery & Information Governance, Plaintiffs. She routinely navigates detailed, complex and contentious ESI issues from dispute to resolution, including preservation, search, and production issues, technology assisted review methodologies, database disclosures, and advanced review analytics.
Jeannine educates other practitioners on e-discovery and has served as a faculty coach in Georgetown University’s eDiscovery Training Academy, as a regular conference speaker, and in leadership roles with the American Association for Justice, EDRM, Arizona State University’s Arkfeld Conference, and The Sedona Conference.
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Greg M. Kohn
Greg Kohn is a partner at Nagel Rice and specializes in complex civil litigation cases, including professional malpractice, personal injury, class actions, wrongful death, products liability, and commercial litigation. He has extensive experience representing clients in both state and federal court.
Greg has tried numerous jury trials to verdict and has recovered over $85 million in settlements and verdicts in all types of personal injury matters, including automobile accidents, wrongful death cases, slip and falls, and other catastrophic injury cases. He also handles medical malpractice cases and commercial disputes.
Greg is also responsible for e-discovery for the firm. His background in computer science allows him to understand not only the legal aspects of e-discovery, but the technology behind it as well.
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Kelly McNabb
Kelly McNabb is a partner in Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein’s New York office and has over 10 years of experience in complex civil litigation. As a member of the firm’s mass tort and product liability practice group, she has represented people and families who have been injured by dangerous and defective products manufactured by medical device and pharmaceutical companies.
Kelly has played an integral role in litigation in state and federal courts across the country and has served as court-appointed leadership in complex litigations. Kelly specializes in electronic discovery and is Lieff Cabraser’s Partner-in-Charge of ESI and serves as Publication Committee Co-Chair of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1.
Prior to joining Lieff Cabraser, Kelly began her practice in Minnesota and was recognized as an Attorney of the Year. She has also been active in human rights work and asylum advocacy.
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Maria Salacuse
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.
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Lyzette Wallace
Lyzette Wallace is discovery counsel at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC and a member of the Securities Litigation & Investor Protection practice group. Ms. Wallace has extensive experience in government investigations and litigation involving securities, antitrust, and False Claims Act violations across financial services, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and medical devices.
Prior to Cohen Milstein, Ms. Wallace worked with both plaintiffs’ and defense firms, representing healthcare insurers in antitrust class actions and defending clients in high-stakes regulatory investigations. She was part of the team that achieved what was then the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. Department of Justice history.
Ms. Wallace holds a J.D. from Howard University School of Law and a B.A. from Stanford University. She is also a certified coach and an accomplished facilitator and speaker on client relationship management and complex litigation strategies.
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Brian D. Clark
Brian D. Clark is a partner in the firm and focuses on plaintiffs-side antitrust class actions, practicing extensively in federal and state courts nationwide. Mr. Clark has led the charge in many recent antitrust cases in the agricultural area, including price-fixing cases involving chicken, pork, beef, turkey, and peanuts. To date, in these cases alone Mr. Clark has helped recover over $500 million.
Mr. Clark also leads the firm’s e-discovery practice group in which he advises clients of all sizes on e-discovery matters. He frequently presents at CLEs regarding e-discovery and is a past Member of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1, and taught an e-discovery seminar for five years at the University of Minnesota Law School.
Mr. Clark co-founded and served as President of the Board of Directors for CLEF, helping establish a forum for plaintiffs-side complex litigation attorneys to discuss best practices for e-discovery.
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Annika Martin
Annika K. Martin is a partner in the firm’s New York office and head of the firm’s Sexual Abuse Survivors Practice Group. She has represented plaintiffs since 2005 in environmental, mass tort, consumer protection, and sexual abuse cases.
Annika has served in major leadership roles in class actions and multidistrict litigation involving institutional sexual abuse, vehicle defects, contaminated water, and other high-impact matters. Her work has contributed to significant settlements and structural reforms.
Her published works include articles on legal liability and predictive coding. She is a past Chair of the Class Action Litigation Group within the American Association for Justice, serves on the Leadership Council for The Sedona Conference’s Working Group 1, and co-founded CLEF.