Denise Backhouse

Practice Areas

eDiscovery

International Employment Law

Privacy and Data Security

Class Actions

Litigation and Trials

Career

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

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 a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E). She is a frequent lecturer on eDiscovery and data protection issues, including on such topics as developing trends; cross-border discovery, data protection and privacy; and privilege and ethics in eDiscovery. Backhouse is a founding director of the Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI) at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Yeshiva University. She serves on the Steering Committee of the American Bar Association Global Cross-Border Institute. Backhouse also serves on the Working Group Series Leadership Council of The Sedona Conference® and is a former member of the Steering Committee of The Sedona Conference's Working Group on International Electronic Information Management and Discovery Disclosure.

Education