Ashish Prasad
Vice President and General Counsel
As Vice President and General Counsel of HaystackID, Ashish Prasad works with corporate legal departments and law firms to achieve compliance with discovery requirements in litigation and government investigations. He has more than 25 years of experience in discovery, litigation technology, complex litigation, and government investigations. His work includes developing discovery policies and procedures, managing discovery matters, and defending discovery practices before courts and regulators. Chambers USA has recognized him in Band 1 for eDiscovery Litigation Support.
Previously, Ashish served as a litigation partner and as Founder and Chair of the Electronic Discovery and Records Management Practice at Mayer Brown LLP; Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Discovery Services LLC; and Vice President and General Counsel of eTERA Consulting.
Ashish has edited four treatises, authored more than 30 articles, and presented hundreds of legal education programs. He served as Executive Editor of The Sedona Principles, co-founded the Government Investigations & Civil Litigation Institute, and has held leadership and editorial roles with the Electronic Discovery Institute and the Practising Law Institute. He currently teaches at the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Chicago Law School and previously taught at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. His current writing and teaching interests include trade fraud investigations and the interaction between litigation technology and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Ashish earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review. He earned his B.A. from the University of Michigan, where he graduated with Highest Honors and High Distinction.