I am a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a litigator by training. In addition to being a partner at a litigation firm in New York City, two years ago I founded a legal operations and technology management consulting firm with a focus on design thinking and process improvement. I have had a long career, litigating in state and federal courts across the USA and in international arbitrations.is the founder and CEO of Karta Legal. I am also a certified Legal Project Manager and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. I was recently selected among America's Top 100 Bet-the-Company Litigators® for 2021.

My detour from courtroom to tech-room happened seamlessly. Unlikely the vast majority of my colleagues, I was drawn to the field that was to become e-discovery. I was at the forefront of that critical path that merged IT, litigation support, technology, and the law. The idea of providing immediate value by creating workflows to improve an obsolete process (manual document review) using technology was genius. E-discovery is an early example of legal innovation. As an aside, I know “innovation” sounds like a buzzword. It is not. Innovation is the act or process of introducing new ideas, devices or methods. Early on I realized that to deliver legal services to my clients in the most cost effective and efficient manner, I needed skills I did not learn in law school or as a practicing lawyer, and I became a legal project manager and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

For those not familiar, Lean Six Sigma is a team-oriented data driven approach to process improvement focused on delivering value to the client. Those skills and my background have been crucial to my work in managing technology projects, logistics, data and discovery in two of the most complex and data intensive matters of the last decade, the Madoff Trustee and the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities litigations.

The genesis of Karta Legal was my desire to push forward team, process, and technology innovation and change management. We have a team of lawyers, process experts, and legal technologists working with legal departments and law firms of all sizes to innovate the practice of law, and we have a roster of vetted and tested partners to help us deliver the best for a successful digital transformation – because we understand the theory behind change management itself. We are unique in the method we deliver our services, focusing not on technology but on change management and process improvement. We use curated design thinking, Lean Six Sigma, and Agile project management tools and techniques tailored to the management of the business of law and legal processes. By doing this, the success of any innovation initiative is optimized.

In 2021, the National Law Journal selected Karta Legal LLC as a Legal
Technology Trailblazer. Very few companies get recognized as a Trailblazer
and the fact that our young company was selected among a choice of titans
is a testament to our innovative approach to legal technology innovation.
Not only was the award meaningful for this recognition, but also because
Karta Legal LLC was the only woman and minority business enterprise to be
given this prestigious award. Moreover, to my knowledge, we are the only
100% minority- and woman-owned consultancy in this field. While I cannot
say I am proud of being the only one, I am proud of being a role model for
other women and minorities in this space because you cannot be what you
cannot see.