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Patrick Burke, Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel, Guidance Software, Inc
Patrick Burke is a Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel at Guidance Software, Inc., where he works with legal departments at major EMEA and US companies implementing in-house eDiscovery processes. He writes and speaks regularly on the intersection between eDiscovery law and technology, including issues relating to EU, UK, and German data protection.
Prior to joining Guidance, Patrick was an associate in the commercial litigation department of Linkaters, the London-based Magic Circle law firm where he was co-head of their global eDiscovery working group. He has also practiced as a commercial litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He is a participant in the Sedona Conference on eDiscovery, including Working Group 6 on international electronic discovery practice. He regularly presents at, and sometimes chairs, the major eDiscovery conferences in the UK and US.
Patrick obtained his law degree from the New York University School of Law, where he was recognized for the best article or comment of the year for his article on corporate speech rights under the First Amendment to the US Constitution. He interned at the U.S. Justice Department and served as a Law Clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Glenn E. Mencer. He pursued his undergraduate studies at SUNY Binghamton and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
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