Notes

Melissa serves as Of Counsel for Kidd Production LLP, a Texas-based oil company. She is the Director of Social Media and Brand Management at Women in eDiscovery, a nonprofit, and a contributor to the American Bar Association's Law Practice magazine. She is founder of mmData, an organization dedicated to spatial computing for the legal sector.

She earned her J.D. from Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law and her B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. Melissa is admitted to the State Bar of Texas. She is also co-founder and co-owner of mmQuail Farm, an exotic animal farm outside of Dallas.

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Key Takeaways

• Melissa says she attends Legal Week in New York to network with others who work in the legal sector and innovate.
• As part of her new venture, mmData, she wants to build useful tools for legal professionals, so she goes to Legal Week to understand what they want, what they need, and what their problems are.
• She is interested in learning about artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
• Melissa says legal professionals should be thinking about privacy and data governance policies for AI and virtual reality to mitigate risks.
• Augmented reality, mixed reality, and other similar technologies are collecting a lot of data that can be accessed through e-discovery.