Patrick Burke has zigzagged between law firms and vendors. In February, he left Guidance Software, where he was senior director and assistant general counsel to join Reed Smith's New York office as counsel in the firm's records and e-discovery group. Past posts include co-head of the E-Discovery Working Group at Linklaters; technology counsel for nMatrix; and litigator at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison and at Stewart & Kissel.

"At Guidance I worked with hundreds of corporations, government agencies and law enforcement teams on their EDD, data privacy, investigatory and cybersecurity challenges," said Burke. He found himself reaching beyond the legal teams to organizations' IT, IT security, records, audit, HR and IG teams. "I learned my way around large organizations' data networks at a deep level, both from the technical and legal perspective."

Burke quickly became a regular on the EDD circuit, meeting "the 'rock star' e-discovery judges, lawyers, technology experts and regulators both in the U.S. and around the world."

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