Experts & Advisors
Pearl Gonzales
Managing Director
Pearl Gonzales is a Managing Director at Ankura, based in Chicago. Pearl brings more than 14 years of experience with discovery demands in large-scale, complex legal matters. She specializes in e-discovery consulting services in civil litigations, second requests, and investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission. Pearl has collaborated with clients from a broad range of industries, including technology, telecommunications, social media, manufacturing, and energy, supporting them throughout the litigation life cycle, from evidentiary preservation and collection to production and trial preparation. Pearl’s experience includes project management, directing teams, and client communications.
Experience
Pearl’s professional experience includes:
- Discovery Management, Social Media Company: Coordinated a team of 10 professionals in the collection and processing of three terabytes of data, the review of more than six million documents, and the production of 350,000 documents and one million pages for a client responding to multiple U.S. federal, state attorney general, and international government requests. Data collection included emails, network shares, chat, and mobile data.
- E-discovery Project Management, IRS Tax Litigation: Coordinated data collection of 60 custodians in Malaysia and Thailand.
- Document Production, Retailer: Coordinated the exports of 15 million documents for a client involved in multidistrict litigation. Provided Relativity review support on 30 million documents for a joint defense team.
- Internal Investigation Support, Technology Company: Worked with outside counsel to process urgent email data. Advised on culling and workflow strategies to streamline the review in order to find the most relevant and key evidence faster.
- Data Management, Energy Company: Assisted the client’s efforts to meet both a FTC HSR request and Canada Competition Bureau filing deadlines for merger review and approval. Managed the collection and processing of 1.5 terabytes of data, advised counsel on methodologies to reduce review population by 60 percent, and coordinated the production of 1.6 million documents in eight weeks.
- Education
- MBA, University of Chicago
- BA, University of Chicago
- Affiliations
- Women in Ediscovery
