Tara S. Lawler

Her work involves drafting and revising policies and templates, creating training programs, and overseeing their implementation. She has conducted comprehensive discovery assessments for numerous global clients, working with internal teams to evaluate current practices, protocols, and tools. Tara provides recommendations to align with best practices, reduce risks, and improve efficiency.

Tara has experience assisting clients with data management during divestitures, acquisitions, and mergers. She advises on establishing protocols for identifying and segregating data during structural changes and onboarding data from new acquisitions. Tara guides clients through the complexities of retaining data for ongoing legal obligations, ensuring effective management within new company structures.

Tara represents major pharmaceutical and healthcare companies in high-stakes product liability, multidistrict litigation (MDL), and government investigations. She manages the entire discovery process, including negotiating discovery scope, timing, and discovery-related protocols (such as ESI protocols, protective orders, plaintiff and defense fact sheets, etc.). Clients value her extensive experience as national discovery counsel, especially her advice on complex discovery issues and implementation of defensible, consistent, and cost-effective strategies. Tara also assists with written discovery, prepares witnesses (including Rule 30(b)(6) discovery-related topics), and collaborates with merits counsel on various issues.

Tara frequently speaks at continuing legal education classes, seminars, and webcasts, focusing on strategy, best practices, and case law updates in discovery, IG, and AI.