Alana Hayton
Senior Manager - Discovery and Data Intelligence, Brisbane
I advise on complex, large-scale, data-intensive discovery and regulatory matters, applying data, analytics and technology to design and deliver clear strategy, manage risk and enable scalable, defensible outcomes.

Career highlights

  • Government Standing Order 52 responses: Leading the Standing Order 52 response portfolio across seven NSW Government agencies, overseeing 70+ Notices to Produce and embedding scalable operating models, playbooks and workflows to improve efficiency, consistency and reduce delivery risk.
  • Construction litigation: Supporting a leading construction client across major disputes, managing over 20TB of data and delivering a technology-assisted review of more than one million documents, including complex data conversion and reconciliation to enable efficient, defensible and cost-effective discovery.
  • Regulatory responses: Advising on responses to major regulatory notices and public inquiries, including Royal Commissions and investigations by agencies such as the ACCC and ASIC, designing defensible, technology-enabled review workflows to manage risk and deliver under compressed timeframes.
  • Class actions: Supporting clients across complex class actions, managing sensitive, high-volume data sets and applying strategic, technology-assisted review approaches to deliver efficient, defensible outcomes at scale.
  • Complex data sources: Supporting complex, data-intensive matters involving non-traditional data sources, including mobile forensic extracts and collaboration platforms, applying structured approaches to manage data extraction, transformation and review.