Our Team
CLEF is led by a team of experienced plaintiffs’ attorneys dedicated to advancing excellence in e-discovery and complex litigation. They bring extensive expertise in antitrust, civil rights, consumer protection, mass torts, and other high-stakes litigation. Together, they provide strategic leadership to help plaintiffs’ attorneys tackle the challenges of managing electronic discovery, navigating large data sets, and building a more substantial case in each matter.
Learn more about our team and how their expertise drives CLEF’s mission to support plaintiff-side success in modern litigation.
Board Members
Brian D. Clark
President
Rebekah Bailey
Treasurer
James Bilsborrow
Secretary
Lea Bays
Board Member
Suzanne Clark, CEDS
Board Member
Jeannine M. Kenney
Board Member
Kelly McNabb
Board Member
Jennifer R. Scullion
Board Member
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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 also co-founded and is President of the Board of Directors for the Complex Litigation E-Discovery Forum, which is a forum for plaintiffs-side complex litigation attorneys to discuss best practices for e-discovery.
Mr. Clark is a 2009 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School where he was elected Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Minnesota Journal of International Law and was a member of the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Mr. Clark served as a Student Attorney for the Consumer Protection Clinic and interned with the Honorable Judge Patrick J. Schlitz of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. Before law school, Mr. Clark was an AmeriCorps volunteer in Alaska and a canoe guide in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of Northern Minnesota.
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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 served as a member of the firm's National Wage and Hour Team. Rebekah has spoken at national conferences on various topics such as ediscovery, false claims, retaliation, arbitration, class actions, equal pay, and various wage and hour issues.
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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. Before that, he clerked for Hon. Christopher C. Conner of the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Bilsborrow belongs to several professional organizations, including the New York City Bar Association, where he serves on the Professional Responsibility Committee and as a member of the City Bar Working Group on Litigation Funding; the New York Federal Bar Council; the Fellows of the American Bar Association; and the American Association for Justice (AAJ).
Finally, Mr. Bilsborrow is an elected officeholder, serving as a Kings County Committee member in Brooklyn since 2016.
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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. Lea also has also has experience in post-production discovery through trial preparation for a wide range of litigation.
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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 (CEDS) designation from ACEDS in 2014 and transitioned to a full-time focus on eDiscovery where she has become a nationally recognized speaker and panelist in eDiscovery 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. Further, 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. She also served as faculty for The Sedona Conference eDiscovery Negotiation Training (eDNT) Program in 2022.
Suzanne co-founded the Jacksonville chapter of ACEDS in 2014, which was later recognized as national Chapter of the Year for its vibrancy and outreach, and continues to serve on the board. She also serves as a Board Member of Complex Litigation eDiscovery Forum (CLEF). In past service, for two years, Suzanne chaired the Jacksonville Bar Association's Legal Technology Committee. Prior to that, she served for two years on the Board of the Jacksonville Women Lawyers Association (JWLA). She is also a past member of the Global Advisory Council of the EDRM.
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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. Among other case leadership activities, she is a court-appointed member of the Steering Committee for the End Payer Plaintiffs in In re Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litigation – one of the largest antitrust actions in history, involving more than a hundred generic drugs and dozens of defendants. She also serves as Co-Lead Interim Counsel for the financial institution class in In re Wawa, Inc. Data Security Litigation. For several years, she has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer” in antitrust by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers.
Since 2021, Jeannine has been ranked Band 1 (Plaintiffs) by Chambers USA for E-Discovery & Information Governance, Plaintiffs, a recognition bestowed on only four plaintiffs’ attorneys in the United States. Across both the plaintiff and defense bars, she is among only 61 U.S. lawyers ranked by Chambers for E-Discovery, and in Band 4 for E-Discovery & Information Governance. She is adept and experienced in managing all aspects and phases of e-discovery, the complex process of discovering and producing electronically stored information (ESI). She routinely navigates detailed, complex and contentious ESI issues from dispute to resolution, including briefing and arguing e-discovery motions when necessary. A member of the Sedona Conference’s Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production, Jeannine counsels Hausfeld’s litigation teams in negotiations relating to preservation, search, and production of ESI in cases often involving dozens of defendants, negotiates ESI search terms, technology assisted review (predictive coding) methodologies, and database disclosures and productions, and manages complex document reviews using advanced review analytics to speed discovery.
Jeannine educates other practitioners on e-discovery, having served as a faculty coach to participants in Georgetown University’s intensive eDiscovery Training Academy, and as a regular speaker at conferences regarding the complexities and ethical quandaries involved in the search for and production of ESI and the importance of cooperation among the parties. She is a Co-Chair of the American Association for Justice Electronic Discovery Committee, a member of the advisory committee for the Arizona State University Arkfeld 2024 eDiscovery Conference, and a member of the Global Advisory Council, Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) among other leadership positions.
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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, including as a member of the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee for the multidistrict litigation In re Zimmer M/L Taper Hip Prosthesis Litigation, MDL No. 2859 (S.D.N.Y.), and the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the Social Media Cases Judicial Counsel Coordination Proceeding No. 5255 (Los Angeles Superior Court).
Kelly specializes in electronic discovery and is Lieff Cabraser’s Partner-in-Charge of ESI, serves as the Publication Committee Co-Chair of the Sedona Conference Working Group 1, and is a board member of the Complex Litigation e-Discovery Forum. Prior to joining Lieff Cabraser, Kelly began her practice in Minnesota and in 2014 Minnesota Lawyer named Kelly as an Attorney of the Year over litigation involving severely injured premature infants, including several deaths. She volunteered at The Advocates for Human Rights in Minneapolis from 2012 to 2015, and continued her human rights work in New York representing a client seeking asylum, which was granted in 2017 after 5 years of advocacy.
In her spare time, Kelly enjoys traveling, trying new cuisines, and being active, especially weight training, yoga, hiking, and skiing.
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Jennifer R. Scullion
For over twenty years, Jennifer has led complex litigations, arbitrations, and appeals for U.S. and multinational clients in a wide array of areas, including antitrust, consumer fraud, communications, civil rights, and international bondholder disputes. Her experience includes multidistrict litigations, class actions, and federal regulatory proceedings. A prolific author, regularly Jennifer contributes articles to the National Law Review, Law360, and is a co-author of numerous PLC Practice Notes. She has also contributed two chapters on international civil litigation to the ABA’s deskbook “International Aspects of U.S. Litigation,” published in 2017. Jennifer also speaks throughout the country on antitrust complex litigation, MDL practice, and discovery issues with organizations such as the Sedona Conference, the American Antitrust Institute, the Advanced E-Discovery Institute, and the Law and Economic Center. Jennifer is a member of Sedona Working Group 1 and the EDRM Advisory Council.
With a passion for community involvement, Jennifer has been a Trustee for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and helped co-found of the Three and a Half Acres Yoga Foundation. Jennifer also established a fund at her alma mater, Boston University, to assist students with emergency financial needs.
Prior to joining Seeger Weiss in 2016, Jennifer was a litigation partner in the New York office of Proskauer Rose, following positions with Solomon, Zauderer, Ellenhorn, Frischer & Sharp (New York), and Munger, Tolles & Olson (Los Angeles). She served as a law clerk for the Hon. Stephen V. Wilson, Central District of California.
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