Overview
Allison Day advises clients on their most complex discovery challenges and manages all aspects of civil litigation, with a focus on technology companies, regulated industries and higher education institutions.
Allison is an experienced case manager with particular expertise advising clients and teams facing complex, time-sensitive discovery challenges. She leads MTO’s eDiscovery and Information Governance practice group and uses the insights gained from her participation in MTO’s Generative AI Task Force and the Sedona Conference to develop efficient and effective solutions for her clients.
Allison also maintains an active litigation practice. She is a trusted case manager and has significant experience leading fact development, working with clients to manage discovery demands and marshalling large volumes of documents to prepare to take or defend depositions and craft compelling narratives for judges and juries.
Experience
eDiscovery
Various clients in leading discovery strategy for multi-jurisdictional consumer class actions and tort litigation, including legal hold implementation, document preservation workflows and efficient document review processes leveraging available technologies.
A global technology company in advising on discovery policies and procedures for use by all outside counsel.
Complex Commercial Litigation
Plains All American Pipeline in federal and state litigation following an oil spill near Refugio State Beach.
A multinational technology company in an expedited arbitration involving a complex series of contract and accounting disputes.
A major freight railroad in obtaining an injunction on preemption grounds, protecting a construction project in a key interstate corridor and successfully defending the injunction on appeal.
The Regents of the University of California in:
- Defeating a lawsuit that sought to require the university to disclose individualized race and academic data of every student who had applied or attended the university over a dozen-year period.
- A lawsuit alleging the university’s use of SAT and ACT scores in undergraduate admissions discriminated against students on the basis of race and disability.
More
- Before attending law school, Allison taught high school math in Washington, D.C., as part of the Teach For America program.
- Advisory board member, OneJustice.
Allison’s pro bono practice reflects her ongoing commitment to students and immigrant communities, including representing Native American students seeking access to adequate public education and a detained individual seeking immigration relief in appellate and habeas proceedings.
- Member, Sedona Conference Working Groups 1, 6, 11 and 13
- Member, ABA Litigation Section, Pretrial Practice & Discovery Committee
Publications
- “Guiding Griswold: Reevaluating National Organizations’ Role in the Connecticut Birth Control Cases,” 22 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 191 (2016)
Speaking Engagements
Allison has conducted CLE seminars on eDiscovery and related platforms as well as GenAI for clients in addition to the following speaking engagements:
- “Ethical Considerations for Use of GenAI,” California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform Elder Law Conference (Nov. 2024)
- “Where Do We Go From Here? A Discussion Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decisions in the ‘Affirmative Action’ Cases,” National Association for Law Placement (July 2023)
