Full Name
Alicia Hawley
Job Title
Of Counsel
Company
K&L Gates
Speaker Bio
Alicia Hawley is of counsel in the firm's e-Discovery Analysis & Technology (e-DAT) practice and a member of the firm's AI Solutions Group. An experienced litigator and white-collar criminal defense attorney, Certified eDiscovery Specialist and award-winning innovator, Alicia has over two decades of experience counseling clients on both routine and complex eDiscovery issues, best practices, case and narrative development, and fact investigations. Alicia regularly serves as coordinating discovery counsel on major litigations and government investigations and counsels the firm and clients on all phases of the EDRM. Alicia argued and won a progressive decision regarding the use of technology-assisted review (TAR) in Livingston et al v. City of Chicago and has been on the cutting edge of the intersection of technology and law for over a decade.
A member of the firm's AI Solutions Group, Alicia leads all AI training and education initiatives firmwide.
In addition to her client work, Alicia is a well-regarded thought leader in artificial intelligence, Technology Assisted Review, and eDiscovery case law. She currently chairs two drafting teams for the Sedona Conference Working Group 1—on Initial Disclosures and Lifting Legal Holds—and previously served on the drafting team for the 2023 TAR Primer.
Alicia has lectured extensively on the topics of artificial intelligence, eDiscovery, trial advocacy, the Federal Rules of Evidence, and public speaking, and has held adjunct faculty positions at Northwestern University School of Law, Loyola University School of Law, Northwestern University, and Elmhurst University. She has been teaching a first of its kind semester long Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law class at Loyola University School of Law for two years and is in her fifth year of teaching eDiscovery & Problem Solving.
Alicia dedicates a notable portion of her practice to pro bono matters—recently featured on a July 2021 episode of Dateline NBC. Her pro bono experience includes a state post-conviction and federal habeas corpus petition alleging illegal search and seizure and judicial bias, an executive clemency petition, numerous successful asylum petitions for individuals fleeing persecution in their home countries, and representation of victims of domestic violence seeking Orders of Protection.
A member of the firm's AI Solutions Group, Alicia leads all AI training and education initiatives firmwide.
In addition to her client work, Alicia is a well-regarded thought leader in artificial intelligence, Technology Assisted Review, and eDiscovery case law. She currently chairs two drafting teams for the Sedona Conference Working Group 1—on Initial Disclosures and Lifting Legal Holds—and previously served on the drafting team for the 2023 TAR Primer.
Alicia has lectured extensively on the topics of artificial intelligence, eDiscovery, trial advocacy, the Federal Rules of Evidence, and public speaking, and has held adjunct faculty positions at Northwestern University School of Law, Loyola University School of Law, Northwestern University, and Elmhurst University. She has been teaching a first of its kind semester long Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law class at Loyola University School of Law for two years and is in her fifth year of teaching eDiscovery & Problem Solving.
Alicia dedicates a notable portion of her practice to pro bono matters—recently featured on a July 2021 episode of Dateline NBC. Her pro bono experience includes a state post-conviction and federal habeas corpus petition alleging illegal search and seizure and judicial bias, an executive clemency petition, numerous successful asylum petitions for individuals fleeing persecution in their home countries, and representation of victims of domestic violence seeking Orders of Protection.
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