Lauren E. Schwartzreich
Pronounced: Lau-REN Shwartz-rike
lschwartzreich@littler.com
Contact Assistant
Contact Assistant
Lauren E. Schwartzreich is a nationally recognized thought leader and practitioner in electronic discovery, helping small organizations to multinational corporations strategically approach litigation discovery in a cost-effective and efficient manner.
Lauren provides clients with practical and innovative solutions to the ever-evolving and complex issues surrounding the intersection of law, data, and technology, including with respect to: developing proportional preservation practices, creating strategies for efficient and effective data harvesting, leveraging structured data to tell persuasive stories, implementing cost-shifting/cost-reducing strategies, negotiating discovery disputes, triaging data loss events, facilitating admission of electronic evidence at trial, leading multifaceted forensic investigations of data exfiltration and misappropriation of trade secrets, overseeing forensic consultants and experts, and leading eDiscovery conflicts to successful resolution. She also advises clients on best practices for emerging technologies, including ephemeral messaging, channel-based communications, and cloud-based systems. Lauren has extensive courtroom experience and thinks holistically about eDiscovery issues, keeping clients’ needs for cost reduction, predictability, legal compliance, and efficiency top of mind.
Lauren frequently litigates eDiscovery issues in large class, collective, and California PAGA actions, including serving as the lead eDiscovery liaison to the firm’s award-winning Littler CaseSmart® program, which is a data-driven and technology-focused approach to delivering legal services. Lauren’s unique experience as a former plaintiff-side employment class action litigator allows her to approach cases with an eye toward her adversaries’ eDiscovery strategies, enabling her to stay a step ahead on data and evidentiary issues and build eDiscovery credibility with opposing parties and the courts.
Lauren holds leadership positions within the eDiscovery legal community, including as a member of The Sedona Conference Working Group Series Leadership Council (she also served as a Steering Committee member of Sedona, Working Group 1), and as former co-chair of the ABA’s National Institute on eDiscovery. She is ranked by Chambers USA and Chambers Global and also recognized by The Best Lawyers in America and Lexoligy Index (formerly, Who’s Who Legal), in the area of eDiscovery.
Committed to inclusion, equity, and diversity efforts in the legal and broader community, Lauren co-chairs Littler’s LGBTQ+ Pride Affinity Group and served on Littler’s Diversity & Inclusion Council. She is a former Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity and a former member and secretary of the New York City Bar Association’s LGBTQ Rights Committee.
Lauren frequently speaks and publishes on topics related to eDiscovery, computer forensics, artificial intelligence, and litigation technology issues.
Lauren was based in Littler’s New York City office before relocating to Littler’s office in Denver.
Selected Matters
- Developed protocol for managing data and review involving “top secret,” security clearance, ITAR and other regulated data
- Successfully defended large distribution client against spoliation motion in discrimination class action involving over a decade of fact history and multiple data sources
- Developed preservation plan and protocol for national staffing agency’s portfolio of employment matters, including for example: administrative charges, single plaintiff litigation, and class actions
- Successfully defended large retail client against sanctions related to alleged spoliation of surveillance video in single plaintiff discrimination case
- Successfully defended technology startup company against demands for production of critical source code in wage and hour class action
- Successfully defended technology company from discovery requests in class and collective action wage and hour lawsuit that would have involved incurring more than $1 million in discovery costs, instead obtaining all relief requested on behalf of client
- In non-compete and trade secret matter involving poaching of health industry client’s employees, successfully led multi-pronged investigation involving digital forensics of multiple business assets, expert analysis of security event logs across multiple data streams, and AI-assisted analysis of more than 1 million communication items, and oversaw expert analysis related to same
- Led legal strategy and oversight of briefing and forensic expert testimony in successful motion for spoliation sanctions against employee plaintiff of national transportation company