Lauren Abeyta began her career in 2003 with Vinson & Elkins, LLP in Dallas where she found her passion for diving headfirst into each case and working alongside attorneys. From 2005-2016, Lauren focused her efforts as an eDiscovery service provider, helping her clients tailor customized, defensible workflows drawing on her experience in litigation, information governance, legal hold and data preservation, IT infrastructure, and large-scale document review, ultimately earning an executive leadership role with the country’s largest eDiscovery managed review provider.
Now the Founder & COO of Construction Discovery Experts, Lauren serves as an unbiased adviser to corporations and law firms in need of eDiscovery expertise focused on efficiency, defensibility and cost-savings. As a Certified eDiscovery Specialist, she takes control of the eDiscovery budget and process by leveraging her deep experience, longstanding relationships, and passion for solving complex problems. Lauren also works with her corporate clients to lead training programs developed around electronic communication, given her unique perspective on the collection and review of employee communications within the eDiscovery phase of her clients' litigation and internal investigations.