Rebecca Biller

Rebecca Biller is a member of the firm's Employment Law, Litigation and Health Care Practice Groups, and chair of the Electronic Discovery and Data Management Service Group.  Her practice is devoted to a wide range of commercial litigation, employment and health care matters.  Ms. Biller routinely represents clients before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and federal courts defending against claims of unlawful discrimination.  She also regularly assists clients with reviewing, revising, and drafting policies and procedures regarding employment, data management and document retention, and electronic discovery. She advises clients on electronic discovery implications relating to “cloud computing” agreements. She assists in drafting, reviewing and analyzing physician employment agreements and routinely advises those completing their medical residencies as to employment and non-compete issues they may encounter.  Ms. Biller also routinely advises public school administrators across the state of Indiana on contractual issues related to administrators' employment.  During her tenure at Krieg DeVault, Ms. Biller has assisted the Recruiting Committee, conducted interviews at the Indianapolis Bar Association Diversity Job Fair and the Cook County Minority Law Student Job Fair, and served as a co-chair of a subcommittee for the inaugural Diversity in Practice Conference held in September 2007.

Representative Experience

• Successfully defended Credit Union before Indiana Civil Rights Commission against ADA complaint by employee suffering from Multiple Sclerosis
• Reviewed and revised numerous employee handbooks in the financial institutions area
• Managed document retention and discovery responses for family of multi-million dollar trade secret misappropriation actions filed in federal court
• Successfully defended summary judgment in state court against plaintiff claiming retaliatory discharge
• Successful defense of claims under all laws protecting against discrimination 
• Negotiation of Confidential Settlement Agreements
• Successfully defended claim of retaliatory discharge in state court which was affirmed on appeal

Education

• Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington, Indiana (J.D., 2004)
  • Latino Law Student Association (LLSA) - President 2003-2004
  • Sherman Minton Moot Court Competition - Top Oralist
  • Inmate Legal Assistance Clinic (ILAC)
  • Bailiff, Moot Court
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (B.A., With Distinction, 2000)
• Lorenzo de' Medici Art Institute of Florence, Italy (attended Fall 1999)

Bar Admissions

• Indiana, 2004
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, 2004
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, 2004

Professional Associations

• Indiana State Bar Association, 2004 – Present (Member)
• Marion County Bar Association, 2004 – Present (Member)
• Indianapolis Bar Association, 2005 – Present (Member)
• The Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production, 2008 – Present (Member)
• Sagamore American Inn of Court, 2005 – 2007 (Member)
• Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Pilot Program, 2010-present (Committee Member)
• Merrill Corporation Strategic Advisory Board for Electronic Data Discovery Solutions, 2011-present (Advisory Board Member)
• Friends of eDiscovery - Indianapolis Chapter, 2012-present (Member)

Seminars and Presentations

• "Legal Hold Seminar”, Krieg DeVault’s Legal Hold Client Briefing, July 28, 2011
• "Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 – FAQ’s and Best Practices”, Krieg DeVault’s Employment Law Briefing, April 2011
• "Contractual Issues for School Administrators", client presentation, April 18, 2011
• "Contractual Issues for School Administrators", client presentation, October 11, 2010
• "Contractual Issues for School Administrators", client presentation, April 19, 2010
• "Essentials of Record Retention & Legal Holds", Krieg DeVault's The Election, The Economy - What's In Store for Employers, March 2009
• “Essentials of Physician Employment and Recruitment Agreements”, Departments of Neurology and Neurological Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, June 2007
• “Essentials of Physician Employment and Recruitment Agreements”, Department of Neurology, Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, May 2007
• Electronic Discovery Training, client training, January 2007
• Electronic Discovery Training, client training, July 2007
• Electronic Discovery Training, client training, November 2006
• Sexual Harassment Training, client training, September 2006
• “Retention of Electronically Stored Information in the Face of Threatened or Actual Litigation”, Krieg DeVault’s Third Annual Benefits in Brief, September 2006

Awards and Recognitions

• Indiana Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2013