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Adam Rouse is the Head of Corporate Legal Community Engagement at Relativity and a founding member of the Legal Data Intelligence project. Throughout his career, Adam’s versatile talents of working at the intersection of technology, law, and data helped organizations understand business-critical nuance and bridge technical and legal gaps across teams. With both a technical and advanced legal background, he has a track record of successfully implementing technology to solve legal problems. Adam’s key role in building the e-discovery programs from the ground up at Walgreens and US Foods has had a transformative impact on both organizations. Adam is an adjunct professor of e-discovery and technology at Loyola University and is a technology and law guest lecturer at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. He has chaired of the Street Law Program with the Chicago chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and takes an active role in mentoring students through Loyola and other local law mentorship programs. Adam’s recent projects include consulting on an incident response plan for a major medical manufacturing company’s information security department and, after taking over the e-discovery reins at Walgreens, bringing a large percentage of outsourced e-discovery in-house and ushering in significant upgrades in the department’s technology stack and workflows. Prior to Relativity, Adam was Senior Counsel, eDiscovery & Director of Legal Operations for Walgreens, Manager and Counsel, e-Discovery at US Foods, and a technology architect for a major bank for close to fifteen years. He is a Juris Doctor from Phoenix School of Law. Adam subsequently obtained his Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Space, Cyber, and Telecom law from the University of Nebraska College of Law before doing a fellowship at the Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he researched and co-authored papers on trends such as digital voyeurism, medical data privacy, and predictive crime analysis.