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Michael Will

Michael Will

Litigation Support 2025

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ESI LABORATORY, LLC
 ESI LABORATORY, LLC

Ranked in 1 practice area

eDiscovery

USA - Nationwide

3 years ranked

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Michael Will is the Co-CEO and founder of ESILAB and has overall responsibility for defining and executing the company’s strategy. With a background in both law and technology, Michael has practiced as a litigator (Clifford Chance, Lloyd's of London and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan) and transactional lawyer (Allen & Overy).

Prior to establishing ESILAB, Michael was the founding partner of two successful LegalTech start-up ventures (aoSphere (est. 2002) and docGenix (est. 2008)) each of which was funded by leading international law firm Allen & Overy. Both aoSphere and docGenix were classified as "stand-out" innovations at the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards in 2002 and 2008 respectively.

Michael is a former member of the CFTC’s Data Standardization sub-committee and has advised the SEC, CFTC, and U.S. Treasury on matters pertaining to the machine readability of legal agreements. He is also a former co-chair and member of the FpML Standard CSA Working Group.

For consecutive years Michael has been ranked by Chambers as one of the leading Litigation Support E-Discovery professionals in the United States. Michael's current Chambers ranking is in Band 2.

Chambers Review

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Professional Advisers: Litigation Support

eDiscovery - USA - Nationwide

Band 2
Individual Editorial
Michael Will is co-CEO and founder of ESILAB. He is an experienced financial services lawyer and combines this expertise with extensive technological acumen to service clients in litigation. Will is integral in crafting relevant data sets and ultimately helping clients to avert risk in proceedings.
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  • Michael Will is good at anticipating future needs and tries to build solutions that we haven't thought of yet.

    eDiscoveryProfessional Advisers: Litigation Support

  • Michael Will is very responsive, very helpful and good at what he does.

    eDiscoveryProfessional Advisers: Litigation Support

  • Michael Will takes a very hands-on approach to client service. He is always available; he does whatever it takes to reach goals and is highly client-centric.

    eDiscoveryProfessional Advisers: Litigation Support

  • Michael Will is very knowledgeable in addressing our needs.

    eDiscoveryProfessional Advisers: Litigation Support

  • Michael Will is a real entrepreneur. He can grasp what you need, run with it and take it to the next level.

    eDiscoveryProfessional Advisers: Litigation Support

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USA - Nationwide

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