Joy Murao

Joy Murao’s professional career spans 20 years in the areas of litigation and practice support services, with a leading role in pioneering the field of eDiscovery and litigation support. Joy earned her B.A. in English from UC Santa Barbara and a Paralegal Certificate from the ABA Approved University of San Diego. She then joined the international firm of O’Melveny & Myers as a Litigation Systems Analyst where she created and maintained litigation databases and conducted nationwide training for attorneys and legal staff on various information retrieval systems. After holding a position as a Systems Analyst Programmer within Atlantic Richfield’s Corporate Legal Department, Joy spent the next 16 years in leadership positions managing and developing global practice support programs of two international firms, Latham & Watkins and Paul Hastings. Joy has served on the Advisory Boards of Thomas Reuters (West) and Law.com Legal Technology, the Steering Committee of International Legal Technology Association, and presented numerous talks at legal technology conferences in the U.S. and abroad. Joy was listed among Global Tech Leaders Top 100, and named “Strategic Management Tour de Force.” Joy is a Regional Director for Women in eDiscovery and also serves as an instructor at UCLA Extension in the area of Legal Technology and Legal Project Management.