Neal Lawson, Managing Director

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Mr. Neal Lawson, the President and co-founder of Washington, DC based Intelligent Discovery Solutions, Inc (“iDS”), is an expert in e-Discovery strategic consulting services focusing on structured data, social networking, and cloud computing. With over 17 years of experience in both the technology and litigation industries, he specializes in the assessment, implementation, and procedural analysis of complex systems as well as application development, data analysis, ESI preservation, computer imagery, and e-Discovery within complex commercial disputes. As both a strategic advisor and project manager, Mr. Lawson has led global technical assessments and investigations involving highly complex data sets and enterprise data systems. His expertise is sought out for educational purposes and he has trained both national and international litigation service bureaus on document capture, retrieval, processing, and retention methodologies and policies.

Mr. Lawson is an active participant in the Sedona Conference WG1: Working Group on Best Practices for Electronic Discovery and Production and serves on the Masters Conference Advisory Cabinet.

Prior to founding iDS, Mr. Lawson was the co-founder and national practice leader of the Electronic Discovery Practice at LECG as well as managing director and regional practice leader for the Electronic Evidence & Consulting practice at FTI Consulting. Mr. Lawson began his career as an application programmer developing enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) software at PeopleSoft, travel and expense (“T&E”) software for the Department of Defense, and litigation imaging and retrieval systems with DocuLex.