Denise Backhouse

eDiscovery

International Employment Law

Privacy and Data Security

Class Actions

Litigation and Trials

Reinforcing the firm's commitment to providing its clients with leading-edge solutions in the rapidly developing area of eDiscovery, Denise E. Backhouse provides focused guidance and expertise on information governance and electronic discovery matters to Littler's lawyers and their clients, including:

Case and client-specific advice about meeting preservation obligations

"Meet and confer" obligations

Efficient and effective data harvesting strategies

Review and production, and implementation of cost-shifting and cost reduction strategies

Cross-border eDiscovery and international data protection and privacy issues

Backhouse is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a founding member of the Board of Directors of the International Data Law Association, and a founding director of the Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI), Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. Backhouse served as Co-Chair and on the Steering Committee of the American Bar Association Cross-Border Institute. She serves on the Working Group Series Leadership Council of The Sedona Conference®, is a former member of the Steering Committee of The Sedona Conference's Working Group on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure (WG6), and is actively involved in The Sedona Conference’s Working Groups on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1) and Data Security and Privacy Liability (WG11). Backhouse is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E). She is a frequent author, speaker, and lecturer on eDiscovery and data protection issues, including on such topics as developing trends; cross-border discovery, data privacy; and privilege and ethics in eDiscovery.

During law school, Backhouse interned for Hon. Theodore Katz of the U. S. District Court, Southern District of New York, under the Columbia clerkship training program. She was a research assistant for Professor Martha Albertson Fineman and served as managing editor for the Journal of Law and Social Problems.

University of Melbourne, Commonwealth of Australia

B.A.

1984

University of Melbourne, Commonwealth of Australia

M.A.

1989

Columbia University School of Law

J.D.

1998