Lily Wen is a Partner in the eDiscovery practice at AlixPartners and is based in Los Angeles.
Lily advises corporate counsel and their law firms on complex discovery, investigations, and litigation matters, bringing 20 years of hands-on leadership across the full EDRM—from legal hold and collection through processing, production, and case close. She has led hundreds of engagements, including multi-jurisdictional class actions with emerging data sources and large custodian sets, coordinating closely with outside counsel and client to deliver defensible processes, timely communication, and rigorous production validation. She is frequently engaged to design and stabilize discovery programs under regulatory scrutiny, compressed timelines, and heightened public visibility.
Lily is a frequent speaker and panelist on discovery, technology, and DEI topics—appearing at Relativity Fest and university programs—and has been recognized by the LA Times (leaders in eDiscovery/Technology), shortlisted for the Orange County Inspirational Women Leadership Awards, and named a finalist for the Relativity Innovation Awards.
Representative Experience:
- Led hundreds of complex eDiscovery engagements spanning internal investigations, regulatory enforcement actions, and large-scale, multi-jurisdictional disputes, involving thousands of custodians, complex data ecosystems, and high volumes of emerging and cloud-based data.
- Advises enterprise clients across the technology, entertainment, and healthcare sectors on defensible discovery strategy, data governance, and litigation readiness. Regularly partners with legal, IT, privacy, and information security teams to design scalable, audit-ready discovery operations.
- Directed large-scale migrations from legacy and in-house eDiscovery systems to RelativityOne and Reveal. Oversaw end-to-end solution architecture, data ingestion, workflow design, user training, and change management, delivering consistently on time and within budget.
- Built and led West Coast technology teams and global follow-the-sun delivery models supporting 24/7 discovery operations. Established standardized intake, processing, analytics, and review workflows that improved throughput and quality control.
- Provided strategic eDiscovery management on a highly visible dispute involving executive-level custodians and heightened public, regulatory, and legal scrutiny for a global entertainment company. Directed defensible collections across email, mobile devices, and collaboration platforms while maintaining strict chain-of-custody, data security, and minimal business disruption.
- Led long-running regulatory and consolidated class action matters involving data privacy, cross-border discovery, and foreign-language review for a major technology company. Managed global teams delivering advanced workflows including custom parsing of emerging data, encrypted data handling, analytics-driven review, and jurisdiction-specific production strategies.
- Advised on the discovery process of privacy-related litigation and regulatory matters involving digital tracking technologies across websites and mobile applications for a healthcare corporation. Managed large-scale custodial and application-level data collections, processing, and review under evolving privacy and regulatory requirements.
- Supported complex disputes for global technology companies involving social media data extraction, structured and unstructured data review, and sensitive personal information analysis. Designed jurisdiction-specific filtering, analytics, and production workflows to meet aggressive timelines across multiple venues.
- Managed complex claims workflows arising from large-scale natural disasters, partnering closely with counsel to structure, normalize, and analyze high-volume claims data. Enabled efficient downstream review, reporting, and resolution through repeatable, technology-driven processes.
- Architected and deployed enterprise legal hold and preservation programs supporting thousands of concurrent holds across global organizations. Implementations centralized custodian management, automated reminders and escalations, and delivered real-time reporting to reduce preservation risk and improve response times.