Aurora Hartwig de Heer

Aurora’s experience covers the entire eDiscovery process, including legal holds, internal investigations, negotiating scope of discovery, drafting electronically stored information (ESI) orders, and conducting custodial interviews. She regularly works with clients on data collections, data minimization, protecting client privilege, ensuring data consistency, and managing productions and privilege logs.

Aurora has spent several years leading the Managed Review Operations function within the eData practice. During this time she has focused on the intersection of people management, technology, and data to develop comprehensive training programs for the eData managed review legal team. Her iterative approach to process development has led to significant improvements in efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and defensibility across a wide range of eData projects. Before joining Morgan Lewis, Aurora provided consulting and eDiscovery project management for a range of commercial and federal clients. During law school, she served as the Recent Developments Editor for the American Bar Association’s Administrative Law Review and interned with Hon. Susan Braden (ret.) at the Court of Federal Claims.

She also spent her summers attending specialized classes on International Law in The Hague and clerking at the International Trade Commission’s Office of Unfair Import Investigation. Before law school, Aurora worked as a senior paralegal at both large and boutique law firms, supporting complex multidistrict litigation and intellectual property cases. While in college, she participated in the Global Information Internship Program (now the Everett Program) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, living in Mali and Nigeria for four months while working with various nongovernmental organizations.

• Used technology assisted review and continuous active learning to assist in major data transfers of relevant data for preservation purposes for a global logistics and shipping company, as well as supported fast-moving responses to employment investigations before the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• Managed several highly sensitive internal investigations of C-suite individuals to support advising global corporations on risk and potential litigation
• Assisted in negotiating the scope of discovery and search terms while leveraging internally developed workflows integrated with outside vendor workflows to successfully meet discovery and privilege log deadlines in large medical antitrust matter
• Supervised C-suite custodial interviews, negotiating scope of discovery, collections, and ultimate productions for high-stakes intellectual property matter.
• Assisted in negotiating a final ESI protocol while coordinating a team of eData associates in the collection and production of data for three global financial institutions, using three different hosting vendors and three different review vendors, in mortgage-backed securities qui tam matter