JasonPriebe

Partner and Associate General Counsel

In the face of a multitude of legal requirements regarding the secure storage, retention, transfer, sale and destruction of records, clients turn to Jason for guidance on information governance, privacy, and data security.


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Corporations and organizations face a number of legal requirements and obligations concerning the creation, storage, maintenance, and use of records and information. In addition to ad hoc requirements of preservation and electronic discovery in the litigation context, there are data privacy and record retention requirements affecting the way companies routinely collect, manage and store various categories of information. Jason has many years of experience in helping clients quickly identify, preserve, collect, process, review, and produce large amounts of electronically stored information in a legally defensible and cost-effective manner. Clients also turn to Jason for guidance on information governance, protection, and data security challenges they face in the US and internationally.

Jason's current practice focuses on issues involved in electronic discovery preparedness, planning and execution, as well as information privacy, information governance, and data security. He routinely provides legal consultation and advice to several large and diverse corporations and organizations regarding the design and implementation of electronic discovery programs, including the development of policies and procedures for efficiently and defensibly preserving, collecting and producing electronically stored information (ESI). His experience includes serving as an in-house counsel for the nation's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurer, where he advised on issues involving litigation hold administration, information management, and electronic data discovery process and policy.

Jason has extensive litigation and jury trial experience in a broad range of substantive areas, including individual and commercial insurance claims, subrogation, and insurance coverage disputes. Since 2005, his practice has focused on eDiscovery, corporate compliance and information governance. His eDiscovery litigation experience has ranged from intellectual property and commercial cases involving a small number of data points and data custodians, to nationwide multidistrict and class action cases involving several hundred individuals, complicated multilayered structured active and legacy database and storage environments, and many terabytes of potentially relevant information. He has also managed and coordinated ESI preservation and productions on behalf of several large corporations in response to regulatory agency and law enforcement investigations and informational requests.

Jason frequently speaks on topics involving the practical application of eDiscovery standards in the reality of modern information storage and messaging environments, including storage and archival strategy, cloud computing, social networking, enterprise search, and record retention and content management solutions. Jason is the Midwest regional manager for Seyfarth's eDiscovery and Information Governance (eDIG) group. He is also a member of the Sedona Conference, and a participant in the Sedona Working Group on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure, and the Chicago chapter of ARMA International.

  • JD, Mercer University School of Law
  • BA, Mercer University

    Cum laude

  • Georgia
  • Illinois
  • US District Court, Middle District of Georgia
  • Georgia Court of Appeals