Tanya Canup

• Assisted in supervising, managing, and training more than 60 attorneys in a review of over 6 million documents for an automotive manufacturer in connection with multiple governmental investigations, multi-jurisdictional, and individual product liability litigation. In addition, supervised and trained a large group of foreign language reviewers in multiple locations across the country.
• Assisted in the development of an e-discovery litigation readiness protocol to be utilized by the litigation department in the event the client has a significant litigation event or crisis.
• Assisted in advising a large energy provider on the implementation of an e-mail automatic purge policy.
• Managed the document preservation and collection process for a large medical technology company involved in a putative class action and various government investigations.
• Implemented and managed a client’s litigation hold process involving over 16,000 current and former employees.

Tanya K. Canup is an attorney with the firm’s E-Discovery practice. Her practice focuses on information governance, preservation, and collection issues for several Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies.  She regularly advises clients on developing and updating company policies; the defensible deletion of email and other sources; potential gaps within client's E-Discovery processes; best practices and technologies for the preservation and collection process; the legal hold process; training IT departments on the preservation and collection process; and identifying, preserving, and collecting responsive ESI in large-scale litigation.

Tanya has significant experience managing e-discovery in crisis litigation that spans multiple regulatory, investigatory and civil matters and helping clients ensure that e-discovery does not become a costly sideshow. This includes the 2017 Equifax data breach matters, the 2019 Capital One data breach matters, and the Toyota unintended acceleration matters.    

Tanya is a member of the Sedona Conference Working Groups 1, 6, and 11. This past year, Tanya was a member of the Sedona Conference Unique eDiscovery Challenges in Multidistrict Litigation Brainstorming Group. The MDL Brainstorming Group is exploring the challenges and best practices regarding e-discovery in MDL. She also was a guest lecturer at Emory University School of Law Advanced Trial class regarding e-discovery best practices.  Tanya was also a panelist for a panel called “Legal Project Management” at The Master’s Conference held at King & Spalding’s Atlanta office in November.