Robert Keeling

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ROBERT KEELING, founder and head of Sidley’s E-Discovery and Data Analytics team, is one of the country’s preeminent authorities on E-Discovery. Keeling serves as global outside E-Discovery counsel for some of the nation’s best known and most technology-focused corporations.

An experienced litigator and white-collar lawyer, Keeling’s practice has long included a special focus on E-Discovery. He is a frequent speaker and thought leader on E-Discovery issues. He regularly serves as coordinating discovery counsel on major litigations, government investigations, regulatory enforcement actions, and internal investigations. Keeling guides clients through every aspect of modern discovery and successfully handles some of the largest, most sophisticated, and most data-intensive matters in the country. Clients benefit from his unique blend of real-world litigation experience and cutting-edge technological skills. In his E-Discovery counseling practice, Keeling helps sophisticated clients across a broad range of industries. Keeling’s extensive litigation and investigations experience gives him uncommon perspective when advising clients on the practical consequences of the E-Discovery policies, procedures, and practices they adopt. Among E-Discovery practitioners, Keeling is a leading author — having published nine different law review articles and a number of research papers on applied machine learning that have received recognition outside of the legal sphere.