Mary Pat Poteet is the Director of Litigation Support for DLA Piper US LLP and is based in San Diego. She is a member of the firm’s Electronic Discovery Readiness and Response Group and manages a team of litigation support professionals throughout the country. Ms. Poteet provides consultation services on various litigation support issues, including complex litigation, data management and electronic evidence handling and processing. She speaks and writes frequently on electronic discovery topics and is a contributing author of the California Civil Discovery Practice, 4th ed.. Ms. Poteet joined the firm 2005. She is the Litigation Support Peer Group Vice President for the International Legal Technology Association and on the Editorial Board of the Litigation Today Magazine. She is a founding member of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model and she graduated from San Diego State University.