Ariana Tadler Wins 2023 Honorable Shira Scheindlin Lifetime Achievement Award

We're thrilled to announce that Ariana Tadler, the founding partner of Tadler Law LLP, a WBENC-certified, women-owned boutique law firm that offers an array of litigation and legal counseling services, as the 2023 Honorable Shira Scheindlin Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree. Recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on e-discovery, in 2017, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts appointed Ariana to serve on the Federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee, and in December 2020, Chief Justice Roberts renewed her appointment to serve a second term.

For those who don't know (but you should), Hon. Shira Scheindlin was the judge who issued a series of pre-trial that laid the foundation for the discipline of e-discovery in the monumental case Zubulake v. UBS Warburg. (If you want a refresher, check out an article I wrote on the case back in the day.) Judge Scheindlin spoke of this year's award recipient, "Ariana Tadler has been a thought leader in the e-discovery world for more than two decades. She chaired Working Group 1 of the Sedona Conference which drafted the original ESI Guidelines. She has served on the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States, which shapes the rules for all federal courts. As a six-year member of that Committee, she has kept all e-discovery issues top of mind before the Committee. While doing all of this, she has been a highly successful class action lawyer and a leading e-discovery provider founding her own woman-owned business. In short, Ariana is a phenomenal person, personality, lawyer, and leader!”

The award will be presented at Exterro XChange in New Orleans on September 20th, giving readers another great reason to attend the conference. The awards ceremony is a celebration of those who are taking a leading role in transforming how corporations, non-profit organizations and public agencies respond to today’s challenges across legal governance, risk, and compliance. The Hero Awards, sponsored by Exterro, are celebrating their 7th year. The deadline for submitting nominees for other categories is August 11, 2023. You can submit your nomination here for the other categories, which include privacy, e-discovery, digital forensics, diversity, equity and inclusion, and the Exterro Customer Hero award. Attendance is limited to attendees of the XChange Conference. Those interested in attending can register here.