Ellen Blanchard

T-Mobile US

As Director of Discovery and Information Governance at T-Mobile, Ellen uses her knowledge of litigation, technology, discovery, and data to work with numerous business segments to develop information governance best practices and respond to government inquiries and complex litigations.  She successfully managed the team responding to the regulatory requests stemming from the T-Mobile Sprint merger approval. Prior to T-Mobile, Ellen was a litigator at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, providing complex litigation advice to Fortune 50 companies on all aspects of the case lifecycle, including ECA, preservation, depositions, and trial preparation. She was also the Associate GC and Director, eDiscovery Consulting at Evolver Legal Services, counseling core clients in connection with ongoing litigation and cybersecurity protections that included negotiating the scope of discovery, conducting early case assessment, and technology-assisted review. As a frequent speaker at conferences and podcasts, she enjoys sharing war stories of life in the discovery trenches.