Susana Medeiros
USA Guide 2024
Associates to watch : E-Discovery & Information Governance
Associates to watch
About
Provided by Susana Medeiros
Practice Areas
eDiscovery, Litigation and disputes
Career
Susana Medeiros is an associate and a member of the Information Governance, Privacy, and Cybersecurity team. She is a Chambers ranked attorney recognized as an Associate to Watch for her experience in eDiscovery and Information Governance.
eDiscovery
Susana has extensive experience advising on complex eDiscovery issues including defensible collection of electronically stored information and conducting spoliation investigations. She formulates creative strategies for the defensible and efficient preservation, identification, collection, review, and production of electronically stored information in response to requests in civil investigations and litigation. She focuses not only on tactical eDiscovery issues in particular cases, but advises clients regarding strategic e-discovery portfolio management, and data governance. Susana has advised clients on how to best manage electronic discovery and preservation, and helped clients develop litigation readiness protocols for use across their matters.
Information Governance
As part of her information governance practice, Susana helps clients mature their information governance program by developing internal information management, preservation, and data classification policies and procedures and record retention schedules. This includes providing advice on data migrations, defensible disposition, mobile device management, ephemeral data, and disaster recovery and business continuity systems.
Cybersecurity and Privacy
Susana has represented clients both preparing for and responding to cyber incidents. Leveraging her traditional eDiscovery experience, Susana also assists clients with efficiently and defensibly responding to cyber incidents to quickly identify data subjects impacted and the types of personal information impacted, and advise clients about the scope of the incident and the company's obligations to notify the appropriate authorities and the people affected by the breach. She also assists with providing advice around CCPA, CPRA, and GDPR compliance from an information governance and data minimization perspective.
Chambers Review
USA
Susana Medeiros garners praise for her ability to assist with the e-discovery requirements of large-scale litigation, including multidistrict litigation, as well as advising companies on their internal information governance policies.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Susana is tremendously diligent, intelligent and strategic in her approach."
"Susana is very responsive and very capable. She is reasonable, practical and solution-oriented."
"Susana is tremendously diligent, intelligent and strategic in her approach."
"Susana is very responsive and very capable. She is reasonable, practical and solution-oriented."