Luellig Legal is a law firm that provides information governance legal services that lead your company towards business insight, global integration and legally-defensible, uniform execution of IG policies and procedures.

Luellig Legal has developed and implemented corporate IG programs for Fortune 500, multinational and mid-sized companies. Clients include US and international entities across a wide variety of industries including pharma, financial services, healthcare, telecom, energy, manufacturing and non profit. Examples include:

Lorrie Luellig leads Luellig Legal, P.L.C., a law firm dedicated to Information Governance.  In her practice, she offers advice and counsel to businesses across industries concerning Information Governance. She has advised clients on the creation and implementation of Global Information Governance Programs, Legal and Regulatory Compliance, Litigation Holds, Privacy and Security Issues as well as other business practices related to the organization, protection and disposition of valued information.

Lorrie has helped to create and implement Information Governance strategies for both Fortune 100 companies and smaller privately and publicly held companies. She has extensive experience counseling clients on building a solid legal framework to enable the defensible disposal of information.  She is a frequent speaker on the topic of navigating complex legal retention obligations, determining business value of information and creating a dialog among company stakeholders for successful implementation of corporate retention policy and procedure on a global scale. Lorrie also provided expert testimony on information governance practices in Estate of Metcalf, et. al., v. Yamaha, et. al. Case No. GIC842234, In the Superior Court of the State of California, In and For the County of San Diego (2008).

Lorrie received her LL.M. from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  While attending Harvard, she was also a guest lecturer at Boston College of Law.  Lorrie received her J.D., magna cum laude, from California Western School of Law in San Diego, California, where she received numerous awards including three American Jurisprudence Awards in civil procedure, torts, and women and the law.  She received her B.S., cum laude, from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

Lorrie received the highest score on the Arizona Bar Exam in February of 1996.  She also served as a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Irma Gonzales, United States District Court, Southern District of California.

Admitted to Practice

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1997)
• U.S. District Court, District of Arizona (1997)
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of California (1995)
• State Bar of California (1995)
• State Bar of Arizona (1997)
• Hopi Tribal Court (2007)

Speaking Engagements

• Georgetown Law Advanced eDiscovery Institute: An Ounce of Prevention: Reducing Cost through Information Management (November, 2015)
• State Bar of Arizona Annual Convention: Information Governance – The Elephant in Every Law Firms’ Living Room, (June, 2015)
• ASU-Arkfeld eDiscovery and Digital Evidence Conference: Left of the Dial (Information Management) (March, 2015)
• ASU-Arkfeld eDiscovery and Digital Evidence Conference: Disposing of Zombie Data: Information Management Strategies that Really Work (March, 2014)
• ASU-Arkfeld eDiscovery and Digital Evidence Conference: Information Governance – Controlling the Overgrowth of Data (March, 2013)
• IBM Information On Demand (IOD): How Privacy Policies Affect Information Governance and Disposal (October, 2012)
• CGOC London Regional Meeting: Revolutionising and Globalising the Retention Schedule for the Modern Era (June, 2012)
• CGOC 8th Annual Summit, Improving Information Economics with Information Lifecycle Governance (February, 2012)
• IBM Information On Demand (IOD): Address the Challenges of Massive, Uncontrolled Accumulation of Information (October, 2011)
• IBM Information On Demand (IOD): CGOC Faculty Panel (October, 2011)
• CGOC Los Angeles Regional Meeting: Revolutionizing the Retention Schedule for the Modern Era (October, 2011)
• ARMA International Industry Intelligence Session at ARMA International 56th Annual Conference and Expo: Elements of the Modern Executable Retention Schedule (October, 2011)
• CGOC Webinar: Revolutionizing the Retention Schedule for the Modern Era (October, 2011)
• Law.com Webinar: The Enterprise Myth: Separating eDiscovery Fact from Fiction (September, 2011)
• ARMA International Webinar: 10 Elements of an Executable Retention Schedule-Product of the CGOC Working Group on Records Information Management (April, 2011)
• CGOC 7th Annual Summit, Building Better Bridges, Achieving Enterprise Excellence in Discovery, Retention and Disposition (January, 2011)
• CGOC Webinar: A Presentation of the CGOC Benchmark Report on Information Governance (September, 2010)

Publications

• Security Manager.de, December 2013, Rechtssichere Datenvernichtung Gerechte Entsorgung von “Datenmüll” im Information-Lifecycle-Governance, Author.
• ISACA Journal, September 2013, A COBIT Approach to Regulatory Compliance and Defensible Disposal, Co-Author.
• Information Management (ARMA International Publication), April 15, 2013, What to do About Data Debris, Author.
• DOK-Magazin, December 2012, Globalizing Records Management With a Modern Retention Schedule Complying With Evolving Privacy Regulations in the Era of Big Data Requires a Modern, Transparent, and Executable Program for Routine Information Retention and Disposal, Author.
• CIO Insight, December 2012, A Modern Governance Strategy for Data Disposal, Author.
• ISACA Germany IT-Governance Journal, November 2012, Grenzübergreifende Zusammenarbeit zwischen IT, Rechtsabteilung und Datenaufbewahrung Ein Datenaufbewahrungsplan für bessere Compliance und rechtssichere Vernichtung (Cross-border Cooperation Between IT, Legal and Record Retention, A Data Storage Plan for Better Compliance and Legally Secure Destruction), Author.
• PharmaExec.com, October 2012, Defensible Data Disposal, Author.
• Information Management (ARMA International Publication), January/February 2012, A New Game Plan for Building a Retention Strategy that Works, Author.
• CGOC, October 2011, Elements of the Modern, Executable Retention Schedule, Co-Author, Lorrie Luellig and Harry Pugh.
  Corporate Counsel, August 2011, How Legal and IT Can Work Together to Prevent an E-Discovery Crisis, Author.
• Corporate Counsel, July 2011, Information Governance: The Time for Legal and IT to Work Together is Before a Litigation Crisis Hits, Author.
• Interview feature in: ComputerWorld, June 2011, Cover Story: Defensible Disposal, Robert L. Scheier.
• Bio-IT World, February 2011, Better Compliance Through Defensible Data Disposal, Author.
• Pipeline & Gas Journal, February 2011, Are You Saving Money With a Defensible Records Disposal Strategy, Co-Author, Lorrie Luellig and Deidre Paknad.