People: Sarah M. Knight, Associate

Sarah M. Knight

Associate

Chicago
Direct: (312) 460-5466
Fax: (312) 460-7466
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Ms. Knight is an associate in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP.  She focuses her practice on eDiscovery issues including electronic document preservation, production, review, and spoliation. Her litigation experience includes developing cost-effective strategies for the preservation, collection, review, and production of electronically stored information in large class and collective actions. She has also assisted clients in responding to requests from government agencies in administrative investigations/actions.

In addition to litigation, Ms. Knight counsels clients on other information governance issues including, among others, computer forensics, records and information management, information security/cyber security, and international and domestic data privacy issues.  She has advised a broad range of clients from small companies to large corporations in developing policies and practices regarding bring your own PC/mobile device programs, retention of electronic records, litigation preparedness, social media use and discovery, and computer use policy and training.

Ms. Knight is an associate in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP.  She focuses her practice on eDiscovery issues including electronic document preservation, production, review, and spoliation. Her litigation experience includes developing cost-effective strategies for the preservation, collection, review, and production of electronically stored information in large class and collective actions. She has also assisted clients in responding to requests from government agencies in administrative investigations/actions.

In addition to litigation, Ms. Knight counsels clients on other information governance issues including, among others, computer forensics, records and information management, information security/cyber security, and international and domestic data privacy issues.  She has advised a broad range of clients from small companies to large corporations in developing policies and practices regarding bring your own PC/mobile device programs, retention of electronic records, litigation preparedness, social media use and discovery, and computer use policy and training.

Education

  • J.D., John Marshall Law School (2009)
    cum laude
    Editor-in-Chief, John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law
  • B.A., Southern Illinois University (2004)
    summa cum laude

Admissions

  • Illinois

Affiliations

  • American Bar Association
  • Chicago Bar Association
  • Illinois State Bar Association
  • ABA Young Lawyers Division Science and Technology Committee
  • American Society of Digital Forensics and eDiscovery

Presentations

  • "Paralegal's Guide to Evidence: Gathering, Protecting and Spoliation," Lorman Education Services Webcast (January 26, 2012)
  • “Essential Discovery Skills for Paralegals,” Lorman Education Services Webcast (September 15, 2011)
  • "Essential Discovery Skills for Paralegals," Organization of Legal Professionals Webcast (June 15, 2011)
  • "Essential Discovery Skills for Paralegals," Lorman Education Services Webcast (March 23, 2011)

Publications

  • "Attorney-Client Privilege and Waiver in Employee Email on Company Systems," Seyfarth eDIGital Newsletter (April 2011)
  • "Employee Privacy in Personal Messages Transmitted on Company Servers," Seyfarth eDIGital Newsletter (March 2011)
  • Co-author of the Bench Memorandum, John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law  (2009)
  • “Casenote: United States v. Andrus: Password-Protect Your Roommate, Not Your Computer,” The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law (2009)
  • Co-author, “Privacy, Technology and Social Change,” Knowledge, Technology & Policy (2004)

Certifications

Ms. Knight is an EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE) with specific computer forensic expertise in:        

  • Computer Forensics I 
  • Computer Forensics II