eDJ Group is different from traditional consulting firms – our consultants are “research consultants" that cycle between consulting engagements and on-demand research projects in order to balance cutting edge market knowledge with a real-world perspective. eDJ’s consultants all have 20+ years of experience in detailed eDiscovery and information governance projects. The eDJ Group is led by well-respected industry veterans and thought leaders.
Greg is a highly successful and well-respected independent eDiscovery consultant specializing in eDiscovery for over 20 years. Greg’s career spans law enforcement, legal service provider, corporate legal, law firm and legal software development. This deep and diverse background combines with exposure to the discovery challenges of Fortune 500 clients to provide a unique industry perspective. He also provides market and product analyst services to top tier software and venture capital companies. As the Director of Consulting for Attenex Corporation, Mr. Buckles developed corporate specific applications and service offerings utilizing the Patterns™ technology to analyze corporate data trends and minimize the cost and risk during investigations and discovery response. Prior to his return to consulting, Mr. Buckles served as the Senior Product Manager of E-Discovery for Symantec Corporation’s Information Foundation group. He functioned as Symantec’s internal market analyst and drove the overall worldwide discovery outreach initiative. Mr. Buckles has been on the cutting edge of electronic discovery and compliance. He started in the legal field as a forensic criminalist for the Houston Police Department and was recognized as an expert witness in federal court in 1989. After leaving public service, he opened a small litigation support business specializing in on-line coding and data analysis in 1994. The business expanded to include consulting and professional services for medical billing, automated records systems and design of web-based applications. He is a member of the Sedona Conference and the EDRM Committees. He has been a guest speaker and panelist at numerous discovery conferences, webinars, forums and other public venues including LegalTech and the Symantec Visions. He has published white papers on many different aspects of electronic discovery, enterprise search and corporate defensibility.
Greg can be reached directly at Greg@edjgroupinc.com
Mikki brings over 20 years of executive, management and litigation support experience in the legal and e-discovery industries to the Strategic Consulting Division of the eDJ Group. Her diverse experience ranges from creating a successful legal consulting and training company to developing and managing the litigation support department of a Fortune 250 corporation. Previous to the eDJ Group, Mikki served as E-Discovery Advisor for Chesapeake Energy Corporation, as well as Litigation Support Manager for a number of years prior. As E-Discovery Advisor, she focused on implementation and management of procedures related to all aspects of legal hold and discovery response, including the discovery and management of electronically stored information. Mikki was instrumental in the development and implementation of the litigation support department, working with records, information and enterprise content management teams to implement and maintain legally defensible practices related to the preservation, discovery and management of data. Mikki was also formerly a co-founder of Software@Law, Inc. a consulting and training services organization where she focused on providing consulting and training in the area of litigation support and electronic discovery to law firms and corporate legal departments. Her earlier experience also includes practice support manager, software trainer and legal assistant at several law firms. Mikki is an accomplished speaker, has published numerous legal software training guides and manuals, has conducted frequent CLE approved courses on e-discovery and litigation support topics, and is a Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS).
Mikki can be reached directly at Mikki@edjgroupinc.com
