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Barry D. Willms
Senior Attorney + Discovery Process Architect, E-Discovery Division
112 Westwood Place, Suite 350
Brentwood, TN 37027 T: 615.467.2388 F: 615.467.2391     Download vCardEducation J.D., Georgia State University B.S., cum laude, Kennesaw State University Bar Admissions Georgia, Tennessee Speaking Engagements | Publications | Membership |
Barry Willms is Senior Attorney + Discovery Process Architect for the E-Discovery Division of Counsel On Call. His responsibilities include the development, management and implementation of cost-conscious, repeatable and defensible e-discovery review processes, document retention/ESI policies and early case assessment initiatives.
He is also a frequent contributor to Counsel On Call's blog, Lawdable, where he writes about e-discovery trends.
Mr. Willms has more than 14 years of law firm experience at Bass, Berry & Sims in Nashville; King & Spalding in Atlanta; and at his own firm in Georgia. At Bass, Berry & Sims, Mr. Willms educated clients on the discovery process and developed policies and reproducible best practices to significantly reduce pre-litigation and discovery costs. In the nearly 10 years he spent at King & Spalding, he supervised and managed large discovery review teams and worked directly with clients on strategic decision making and analysis.
Since 1995, Mr. Willms has developed the following expertise in discovery-related matters:
• Managed large teams of reviewers for more than 100 different matters
• Created and updated record retention policies
• Created and updated litigation hold processes
• Developed reproducible and defensible processes for cost-effective preservation, culling, review, production,
privilege log
• Drafted infrastructure data maps
• Provided general e-discovery advice
• Conducted interviews to identify key custodians and their ESI
• Evaluated vendors and their various e-discovery software programs, including: Applied Discovery; CaseCentral; Catalyst; Clearwell; Concordance; Discovery Mining; iCONECT; Introspect; iPro; KPMG; Kroll Ontrack; Ringtail; Summation; and TCDI
• Types of cases: product liability, toxic tort, investigations by OIG and State Attorneys General
Representative Client Industries:
• Healthcare-related (10)
• Pharmaceutical (3)
• Retail (2)
• Tobacco (2)
• Energy (2)
• Technology-related (4)
• Financial (2)
• Security
• Food/Beverage (2)
• Manufacturing
• Paper (2)
• Shipping/Logistics (2)
• Telecomm
Mr. Willms received his J.D. from Georgia State University and his bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Kennesaw State University.
He serves on the board of directors of a number of charities and on the personnel committee of his local community.
Recent Speaking Engagements
• "Software Experiences, Culling and Early Case Assessment," Panelist, Counsel On Call's Discovery Symposium 2.0, May 2010
Publications
• "Drywall Litigation Requires Centralized Approach: Lessons Learned Help a Better Model Emerge," Westlaw Journal: Class Action, March 2010
A contributor to Lawdable, here are some of his recent posts:
• "E-Discovery Tools: Evaluate, Collaborate and 'Lawyer the Problem'"
• "Legal Project Management: Fad or Focus?"
• "Changing Platforms, Leaders and ... New Questions"
• "The 'Zubulake' of Legal Holds"
• "It's 2 a.m. Do You Know Where Your E-mail Is?"
• "ESI in 2010: Trash or Treasure?"
• "Don't Hit the Snooze Button on Project Management"
Membership
• State Bar of Georgia