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Judy Selby

Since May 2011, Judy Selby has held the position of national head of Baker Hostetler’s E-Discovery and Technology Practice Group, consisting of more than 20 attorneys. Ms. Selby also leads Baker Hostetler’s Discovery Management Team, which oversees all discovery and ESI issues arising from the firm’s role as court-appointed counsel to the SIPA Trustee for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC.

The 80-member Discovery Management Team coordinates, develops and integrates numerous cutting-edge commercial and proprietary systems to manage all aspects of discovery in the more than 1,000 lawsuits filed prior to the December 11, 2010, statute of limitations for the SIPA Trustee in the liquidation of BLMIS. Ms. Selby has overseen the processing of over 62 terabytes of data, coordinated efforts for the review and documentation of approximately 28 million pieces of media, has been responsible for the practical and the legal establishment of multiple data rooms, as well as managed the development of a series of systems using Sharepoint to improve communications associated with the litigations, while also reducing costs and increasing efficiency. She regularly deals with issues concerning data privacy, HIPAA and bank secrecy. In this role, Ms. Selby manages a team of over 50 dedicated document review professionals, housed in Baker Hostetler offices throughout the United States.

Ms. Selby has represented domestic and foreign insurers in a wide range of first- and third-party complex insurance coverage matters arising out of mass tort, MDL and class action cases. She provides a full range of services from opinion work, claims counseling, settlement negotiation, arbitration and all phases of litigation in single insurer and multi-insurer coverage cases, which typically require management of databases containing in excess of 10 million pages of documents.

Her experience includes U.S. jury trials, in federal and state courts, involving business interruption, bad faith and environmental liability claims, including a 10-week trial in which the jury returned a verdict in favor of the insurers, whom she represented, on the issues of misrepresentation and expectation of property damage. She also has extensive experience in international arbitrations and recently participated in a three-week hearing in London involving a pharmaceutical coverage claim under a specialized policy form, in which the insurer, whom she represented, prevailed on the issue of expectation of personal injury.

Ms. Selby has taken and defended numerous depositions of fact and expert witnesses and has located and retained high-quality and high-profile fact and expert witnesses from a variety of disciplines, including insurance/risk management, economics/business valuation, U.S. and ex-U.S. regulatory agencies, reasonableness of attorneys’ fees, science/medicine and engineering, and has had primary responsibility for the preparation of their reports and statements and examinations at trial. She also has given presentations about U.S. insurance coverage litigation to major international insurance companies and has lectured on coverage under the Bermuda Form insurance policy.

Ms. Selby also has served as independent counsel to the Special Litigation Committee of the Board of Directors of a FORTUNE 500 company in a case involving allegations of securities fraud, inadequate disclosures, collusion with accounting professionals involved in accounting improprieties and other criminal conduct. She participated in the corporate investigation and made recommendations regarding settlement with the company’s directors and officer liability insurance carriers. In addition, she has represented an officer of a FORTUNE 50 company in the corporate and FBI investigations of a massive securities fraud and has investigated SIPC claims tendered by victims of a failed brokerage firm.