Brady Prauser

Thriving for 25 years at the intersection of law, business, and government, Brady Prauser is a creative problem solver, dynamic leader, and multi-discipline expert. An expert when every word counts, Brady built an esteemed reputation as a trusted, affable, and collaborative advisor in the highest-profile complex matters. He serves as a critical “translator” between technology experts and disparate industries, specializing in management consulting, legal discovery process architecture, analytics, and regulatory affairs.

Brady’s extensive experience includes serving as a national division director for the world’s largest staffing and recruiting corporation and founding the Client Solutions Group—a McKinsey-esque consulting arm for multinational corporations. He famously managed the largest eDiscovery/managed review project in U.S. history for Walmart, re-engineering tagging templates to save the company $5 million annually. Brady was also personally awarded all technology and document review work for WaMu v. FDIC, the largest-ever U.S. bank shutdown, where he advised FDIC Chair Sheila Bair and directly reviewed her data and emails at her request. He has additionally led multi-year patent litigation document reviews for GlaxoSmithKline and managed head relationship solutions for Microsoft, AT&T, IBM, Merck, Abbott Labs, Chubb Insurance, and Allstate Insurance.

Beyond legal discovery, Brady is an experienced in-house corporate lobbyist who has personally lobbied ten percent of U.S. Senators in Washington, D.C. on maritime, tax, agriculture, and immigration matters. He is also a published narrative nonfiction author under contract with St. Martin’s Press (Macmillan) and a former newspaper journalist for the Arizona Republic and Kansas City Star.

Practice Areas / Niche Expertise

  • Legal Discovery & eDiscovery Operations: Preservation, collection, culling, hosting, review, production, defensibility of complex data, litigation staging, and info governance.

  • Technology Platforms & Analytics: Expert on Relativity, TAR, EDRM, ESI, EDD, and pioneering metrics/predictive tech for risk reduction.

  • Government & Regulatory Affairs: Coalition building, lobbying, tracking/impacting legislation and regulations, compliance, and Political Action Committee (PAC) management.

  • Editorial & Business Consulting: RFPs/RFIs, business plans, funding applications, technical editing, and publishing industry consulting.

Community & Publications

  • Author, The Piano Prince (Narrative Nonfiction), St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan (2021).

  • Author, Prauser on Synchronizing Document Review Instructions/Tagging Forms 101 (Treatise).

  • Author, Prauser on Blocking, Tackling, Passing, Kicking, Punting and Other Xs and Os of Document Review (Treatise Series: eDiscovery 101; QC 101; Redaction 101; Confidentiality 101; Privilege Review 101).

  • “Who Do You Trust?”, Arizona Republic (July 5, 1994); cited in United States v. Lancaster, 96 F. 3d 734 (4th Cir. 1996).

  • “Waiting for Wilt,” Kansas City Star (1995); Investigative feature regarding Wilt Chamberlain’s uniform retirement.

Bar Admissions

  • Missouri, 1996 (Active / Good Standing)

  • District of Columbia, 2000 (Active / Good Standing)

Education

  • University of Kansas School of Law, J.D., 1998

    • Honors: University of Kansas Law Review, staff member.

    • Honors: Appellate Advocacy Instructor / Teaching Assistant (Selected based on top grade in course).

  • University of Kansas, B.S. in Journalism (News/Editorial), cum laude, 1994

    • Honors: Phi Beta Kappa.

    • Honors: First-place winner, William Randolph Hearst National Newspaper Writing Championship (1994, San Francisco).