Farrah Pepper is the Chief Legal Innovation Counsel (CLIC) at Marsh & McLennan, where she founded and leads the company’s Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) team, which includes the LIT innovation lab and the legal data discovery program. Recent accolades for Farrah include being named a Thought Leader by Corporate Counsel (Women, Influence & Power),a Women of Legal Tech inductee by the ABA’s LTRC (Legal Technology Research Center), a member of the Legal 500 GC Powerlist (US), and a fellow in the College of Law Practice Management. Farrah is a lifelongNew Yorker and double-NYU grad: NYU College of Arts & Science (BA, summa cum laude) and NYU School of Law (JD).
Farrah has a long history of building and leading in-house and law firm teams to solve business challenges, create enterprise value and reduce risk. Previously, Farrah was GE’s global discovery counsel, where she served as the large, diverse conglomerate’s first dedicated legal expert on discovery strategy and policy. Farrah created and led the GE Discovery Center of Excellence and reinvented GE’s approach to global discovery and data management to drive dramatic savings, efficiencies and risk reduction. Prior to joining GE, Farrah was a litigator in the New York office of Gibson Dunn, where she was a founder and leader of the firm’s global electronic discovery practice group.