Generative AI: From Innovation to Impact

Isha Marathe is a multimedia journalist who cut her teeth as an investigative intern at news stations in Massachusetts. She started her reporting career covering women's incarceration in Boston for print and broadcast. Currently, she covers all things data privacy, e-discovery and artificial intelligence as the tech reporter for ALM.

Jeffrey Salling, Esq. is the Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Operations at Moderna. In this role, he crafts the technology roadmaps for eBilling, contracts, law firm management, and eDiscovery. As Chief of Staff, Mr. Salling is a business partner with a law degree who focuses on continuous improvement, maximizing efficiencies, and employing metric-based decisions across the legal department.

Before joining Moderna, Mr. Salling was the Global Director of eDiscovery at Novartis (having worked in Basel, Switzerland & East Hanover, New Jersey). He previously held high-ranking positions at Complete Discovery Source (CDS) and Deloitte in Chicago. Mr. Salling is an expert on the topic of legal technology and eDiscovery whose hands-on experience managing large-scale, challenging matters (including antitrust, intellectual property, and commercial litigation) gives him a unique perspective living in a digital world. While at Deloitte, Mr. Salling focused on learning how AI & analytics can be applied to the legal arena. Beginning at Deloitte and continuing through his current role, Mr. Salling is a passionate people leader. He also seeks to give back. Mr. Salling is a foster-adoptive parent and has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. He developed his own curriculum to give future professionals practice-ready skills in eDiscovery and data privacy.

In his hybrid role at Moderna, Mr. Salling focuses on combining ‘the big picture’ and analytics in developing a legal department fit for purpose. He collaborates across data privacy, IT, security, IP, and compliance. Simply put, his goal is uniting people, processes, and systems on a global level to drive efficiencies and deliver exceptional work-product to a business that is saving lives.

As senior attorney, Christian leads the Discovery and Litigation Technology group in the Washington office. He advises clients on defensible data retention, preservation, collection, review and production processes for antitrust, securities enforcement and litigation matters. He also trains Cleary attorneys and co-counsel on discovery-related issues with a focus on both information governance and artificial intelligence, including predictive coding, and speaks externally on these issues.

In this role, Christian develops policies for clients on retention of data, negotiates discovery procedures and utilization of advanced technology with government regulators and opposing counsel, prepares clients for and defends 30(b)(6) depositions on data preservation and discovery issues, revises client collection processes, and implements sophisticated technology processes, including customized usage of predictive coding, for identification of data for review and production.

Jamie Borwn is the Vice President of Global Advisory Services at Lighthouse. Prior to Lighthouse, she worked for several leading financial institutions, including UBS and Barclays. She also served as a trial attorney, and subsequently, assistant general counsel for the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Brown began her career as a litigation associate at King & Spalding, and later, as a partner at Fennemore Craig. She is a former law clerk to the Honorable Roslyn O. Silver for the US District Court of Arizona and a Duke Law graduate.