Board of Directors
Richard Slawter
President
Richard has a decade of full life cycle eDiscovery experience comprised of consulting, litigation support, best practices, and account management. He has worked for Innovative Development, a business process professional services company. His sales and marketing background has provided clients exceptional customized solutions based on highly specific requirements utilizing various tools. In addition to being appointed to the ACEDS Philadelphia Board, Richard is a recent past Director of the ACEDS DC Chapter along with serving currently as a Director of ARMA Liberty Bell Chapter in Philadelphia.
Christopher Orrin, CEDS
Vice President
Chris is eDiscovery Counsel at Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg. He focuses his practice on e-Discovery technology and services litigation. He works with clients in all phases of electronic discovery, including data preservation, collection, search term processes, data culling and processing, document review, and production. Chris has experience managing document reviews, preparing privilege and redaction logs, negotiating ESI protocols, and working with outside vendors to meet clients’ e-Discovery needs. Chris passed the Certified eDiscovery Specialist Exam in December 2021. When not thinking about eDiscovery, he enjoys golfing and running.
Mimi Singh
Treasurer
Mimi has over 16 years of eDiscovery counseling and litigation management experience, including client representation at two AmLaw 200 law firms, a Fortune 500 company, couple service providers. She has providing strategic design and implementation counseling support through all stages of the EDRM. She is committed to utilizing analytics, machine learning and appropriate leading-edge technologies in partnering with company counsel, IT and business stakeholders, as well as trial case teams in proportionately satisfying discovery obligations and effectively utilizing case data in dispute resolution. She is a certified Relativity Master, and licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and New York.
Megan Soska
Public Relations & Marketing Director
Megan is a seasoned eDiscovery project manager with extensive experience managing large-scale electronic data discovery projects. She is skilled at developing and overseeing the complete project life cycle – from extraction through processing, hosting, review, and production. With a background in information systems management and a deep knowledge of eDiscovery technologies, Megan is equipped to effectively assist clients with creating custom eDiscovery project plans that are both efficient and risk-averse. She also supports client teams in defining production specifications, creating defensible workflows, setting project timelines, and implementing quality control mechanisms.
Michael Reeve, CEDS
Membership Director
As Archer’s Litigation Technology Manager, Michael regularly consults with the firm’s attorneys and their
clients on technical and strategic issues regarding electronic discovery. Michael works with the firm’s
litigators on a wide range of cases, including complex environmental litigation, complex commercial
disputes, intellectual property matters, personal injury matters, and employment discrimination cases.
Michael is responsible for the firmwide coordination and promotion of litigation technology, the
identification and evaluation of new litigation technology products and services, as well as the
management of the firm’s litigation practice support staff.
Vivian Funchion
Director at Large
Vivian Funchion is a Practice Support Project Manager for Duane Morris LLP. She has been in the legal profession for over 30 years and started her career as a litigation paralegal with Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP.
Vince Catanzaro
Director at Large
Vince Catanzaro is Lead Counsel at Federal Express Corporation, where he is responsible for providing eDiscovery and legal technology support to litigation teams and eDiscovery program managers and for maintaining, enhancing, and providing strategic guidance regarding eDiscovery tools, protocols, and best practices. Vince is also an Adjunct Professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law teaching the course on eDiscovery.
Prior to this, Vince was counsel at two international law firms, where he worked with clients to develop best practices and untangle issues related to data preservation, litigation management, and international and cross-border collection.
Before returning to private practice, Vince served as Senior Counsel, Global Discovery Manager for E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. He was responsible for guiding and supporting the legal teams in the development of eDiscovery response strategies and the use of litigation technology and overseeing DuPont Legal’s Discovery Excellence Center, which was named one of Inside Counsel Magazine’s Top 10 Innovative Legal Departments for 2013.
Prior to joining DuPont, Vince practiced in suburban Philadelphia, where he concentrated on Construction Litigation at the state and federal level. He represented a diverse client base from industry suppliers to individual contractors in contract disputes, design interpretation, zoning matters, and sales agreements.
Ashley Christakis
Director at Large
Ashley Christakis has 19 years of experience in the Legal and eDiscovery industry. Her roles have included Litigation Paralegal, eDiscovery Project Manager, eDiscovery Program Manager, and Senior Manager, eDiscovery and Legal Operations. Ashley's experience spans each phase of the EDRM in the law firm and in-house settings, including information governance and litigation readiness for key and complex datasources, legal hold management, collection strategy and execution, processing specifications, crafting and iterating on search terms, analytics, document review management, data disposition and optimization, driving efficiencies in each phase, and drafting and consulting on associated corporate policies and procedures. She enjoys building relationships and collaborating to advance legal technology in the support of the business and legal industry. Ashley lives in Malvern, PA with her husband, two kids, and their assortment of pets.
Joey Slavin
Director at Large
Joey Slavin is a Senior Manager at Deloitte with over 17 years of experience in the field of eDiscovery. Joey has a degree in Computer Forensics and has recently achieved a Masters in Legal Studies at Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline's School of Law. His expertise spans litigation readiness, eDiscovery, digital forensics, forensic investigations, records information management, data privacy and protection, data collection, electronically stored information (ESI) processing, data security, document review best practices, team building, and internal awareness building. He has a proven track record managing people, processes, projects, and client relationships across the globe. Joey has substantial experience providing strategic solutions to corporate clients in multiple industries to address eDiscovery challenges, to mitigate risk, and to leverage technology, data analytics, and generative AI.