Krista O'Donnell
Associate General Counsel
Executive Snapshot
Krista O'Donnell is an Associate General Counsel who leads Unified CLO's Early Case Assessment and Discovery Strategy practice. She helps businesses organize complex evidence, develop timelines, manage discovery, and uncover the facts that drive stronger legal strategy.
Before joining Unified CLO, Krista managed more than 250 complex discovery matters annually, advising clients on subpoena compliance, data privacy, document review, and evidence management. She also serves as a mentor to Unified CLO's legal team, helping attorneys strengthen case development, discovery strategy, and evidence analysis across client matters.
Why Clients Call Krista
Clients call Krista when the documents become overwhelming.
Whether responding to a subpoena, preparing for litigation, conducting an internal investigation, or evaluating a potential dispute, Krista helps legal teams organize large volumes of information into clear timelines, factual narratives, and practical legal strategy.
She believes strong legal strategy begins with understanding the facts. By identifying key evidence, organizing complex records, and developing accurate chronologies, Krista helps clients and outside counsel understand the complete picture before critical legal decisions are made.
Krista’s Story
Krista O'Donnell has built her career around bringing order to complexity.
She enjoys taking massive volumes of information and transforming them into clear, organized facts that help legal teams make better decisions. Whether reviewing hundreds of thousands of documents, developing detailed timelines, or helping attorneys identify the evidence that truly matters, Krista believes successful litigation and investigations begin with understanding the complete story.
Before joining Unified CLO, Krista served as Of Counsel and eDiscovery Manager at Long & Robinson, where she managed more than 250 discovery matters annually involving subpoena compliance, privacy requests, privilege review, and complex litigation support. She developed efficient workflows that helped clients respond quickly while maintaining accuracy and defensibility.
Earlier in her career, Krista spent nearly a decade supporting large-scale pharmaceutical litigation at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, where she worked alongside trial teams managing complex discovery, witness preparation, and evidence analysis in high-stakes matters.
Today, Krista leads Unified CLO's Early Case Assessment and Discovery Strategy practice. In addition to advising clients, she mentors many of the firm's Associate General Counsel, helping them strengthen discovery strategy, evidence analysis, and factual case development. She believes the strongest legal arguments begin with the strongest understanding of the facts.
Career Experience
Unified CLO
Associate General Counsel
Leads Unified CLO's Early Case Assessment and Discovery Strategy practice, helping clients organize evidence, manage discovery, develop timelines, and strengthen litigation and investigation strategy.
Serves as a mentor to Unified CLO's Associate General Counsel, providing guidance on discovery strategy, evidence development, and technology-assisted review while helping maintain consistent best practices across the firm's litigation and investigation matters.
Long & Robinson, LLC
Of Counsel | eDiscovery Manager
Managed more than 250 complex discovery matters annually involving subpoena compliance, data privacy, privilege review, document production, and evidence management.
Advised clients on efficient discovery strategy while implementing technology-driven workflows that improved defensibility, efficiency, and cost management.
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
Discovery Attorney
Supported large-scale pharmaceutical litigation involving extensive document review, issue analysis, witness preparation, and trial support.
Worked closely with litigation teams to organize complex evidence, identify critical documents, and strengthen factual development throughout the discovery process.
How Krista Helps Clients
Early Case Assessment
Krista helps clients understand the facts before positions become entrenched. She organizes evidence, develops timelines, identifies key documents, and builds the factual foundation that supports stronger legal strategy from the earliest stages of a matter.
Discovery Strategy & Evidence Management
Managing complex discovery requires more than reviewing documents. Krista develops efficient discovery strategies that help legal teams identify critical evidence, protect privileged information, and respond confidently to litigation demands.
Data Privacy & Information Governance
Krista advises clients on subpoena compliance, privacy obligations, data subject access requests, and document production under GDPR, CCPA, and evolving privacy laws, helping organizations meet legal obligations while minimizing disruption.
Internal Investigations
Whether supporting employment matters, regulatory inquiries, fraud investigations, or litigation, Krista helps legal teams organize facts, identify patterns, and transform large volumes of information into clear, defensible narratives.
Education
Ghent University
Master of Laws (LL.M.), European Law
Saint Louis University School of Law
Juris Doctor, Certificate in International Law
Rockhurst University
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
Bar Admissions
Missouri
Beyond the Bar
Born in Seoul, South Korea and adopted by her Irish and Italian-American family, Krista developed an early appreciation for different cultures, perspectives, and, eventually, really good espresso.
She's also a proud graduate of an all-girls high school, where she was voted "Most Likely to Stay a Bachelorette," a title she still embraces with a healthy sense of humor.
At home, Krista is the devoted caretaker of more than 20 tropical plants. Friends joke that she gives each one the same patience and attention to detail she brings to organizing complex evidence and untangling difficult legal matters.
Ready to Talk?
Whether your company needs an experienced General Counsel, strategic legal guidance, or executive-level legal leadership, Unified CLO is ready to help.
Schedule a Conversation
Krista O'Donnell
Associate General Counsel
Executive Snapshot
Krista O'Donnell is an Associate General Counsel who leads Unified CLO's Early Case Assessment and Discovery Strategy practice. She helps businesses organize complex evidence, develop timelines, manage discovery, and uncover the facts that drive stronger legal strategy.
Before joining Unified CLO, Krista managed more than 250 complex discovery matters annually, advising clients on subpoena compliance, data privacy, document review, and evidence management. She also serves as a mentor to Unified CLO's legal team, helping attorneys strengthen case development, discovery strategy, and evidence analysis across client matters.
Why Clients Call Krista
Clients call Krista when the documents become overwhelming.
Whether responding to a subpoena, preparing for litigation, conducting an internal investigation, or evaluating a potential dispute, Krista helps legal teams organize large volumes of information into clear timelines, factual narratives, and practical legal strategy.
She believes strong legal strategy begins with understanding the facts. By identifying key evidence, organizing complex records, and developing accurate chronologies, Krista helps clients and outside counsel understand the complete picture before critical legal decisions are made.
Krista’s Story
Krista O'Donnell has built her career around bringing order to complexity.
She enjoys taking massive volumes of information and transforming them into clear, organized facts that help legal teams make better decisions. Whether reviewing hundreds of thousands of documents, developing detailed timelines, or helping attorneys identify the evidence that truly matters, Krista believes successful litigation and investigations begin with understanding the complete story.
Before joining Unified CLO, Krista served as Of Counsel and eDiscovery Manager at Long & Robinson, where she managed more than 250 discovery matters annually involving subpoena compliance, privacy requests, privilege review, and complex litigation support. She developed efficient workflows that helped clients respond quickly while maintaining accuracy and defensibility.
Earlier in her career, Krista spent nearly a decade supporting large-scale pharmaceutical litigation at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, where she worked alongside trial teams managing complex discovery, witness preparation, and evidence analysis in high-stakes matters.
Today, Krista leads Unified CLO's Early Case Assessment and Discovery Strategy practice. In addition to advising clients, she mentors many of the firm's Associate General Counsel, helping them strengthen discovery strategy, evidence analysis, and factual case development. She believes the strongest legal arguments begin with the strongest understanding of the facts.
Career Experience
Unified CLO
Associate General Counsel
Leads Unified CLO's Early Case Assessment and Discovery Strategy practice, helping clients organize evidence, manage discovery, develop timelines, and strengthen litigation and investigation strategy.
Serves as a mentor to Unified CLO's Associate General Counsel, providing guidance on discovery strategy, evidence development, and technology-assisted review while helping maintain consistent best practices across the firm's litigation and investigation matters.
Long & Robinson, LLC
Of Counsel | eDiscovery Manager
Managed more than 250 complex discovery matters annually involving subpoena compliance, data privacy, privilege review, document production, and evidence management.
Advised clients on efficient discovery strategy while implementing technology-driven workflows that improved defensibility, efficiency, and cost management.
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
Discovery Attorney
Supported large-scale pharmaceutical litigation involving extensive document review, issue analysis, witness preparation, and trial support.
Worked closely with litigation teams to organize complex evidence, identify critical documents, and strengthen factual development throughout the discovery process.
How Krista Helps Clients
Early Case Assessment
Krista helps clients understand the facts before positions become entrenched. She organizes evidence, develops timelines, identifies key documents, and builds the factual foundation that supports stronger legal strategy from the earliest stages of a matter.
Discovery Strategy & Evidence Management
Managing complex discovery requires more than reviewing documents. Krista develops efficient discovery strategies that help legal teams identify critical evidence, protect privileged information, and respond confidently to litigation demands.
Data Privacy & Information Governance
Krista advises clients on subpoena compliance, privacy obligations, data subject access requests, and document production under GDPR, CCPA, and evolving privacy laws, helping organizations meet legal obligations while minimizing disruption.
Internal Investigations
Whether supporting employment matters, regulatory inquiries, fraud investigations, or litigation, Krista helps legal teams organize facts, identify patterns, and transform large volumes of information into clear, defensible narratives.
Education
Ghent University
Master of Laws (LL.M.), European Law
Saint Louis University School of Law
Juris Doctor, Certificate in International Law
Rockhurst University
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
Bar Admissions
Missouri
Beyond the Bar
Born in Seoul, South Korea and adopted by her Irish and Italian-American family, Krista developed an early appreciation for different cultures, perspectives, and, eventually, really good espresso.
She's also a proud graduate of an all-girls high school, where she was voted "Most Likely to Stay a Bachelorette," a title she still embraces with a healthy sense of humor.
At home, Krista is the devoted caretaker of more than 20 tropical plants. Friends joke that she gives each one the same patience and attention to detail she brings to organizing complex evidence and untangling difficult legal matters.
Ready to Talk?
Whether your company needs an experienced General Counsel, strategic legal guidance, or executive-level legal leadership, Unified CLO is ready to help.
Schedule a Conversation
Krista O'Donnell
Associate General Counsel
Executive Snapshot
Krista O'Donnell is an Associate General Counsel who leads Unified CLO's Early Case Assessment and Discovery Strategy practice. She helps businesses organize complex evidence, develop timelines, manage discovery, and uncover the facts that drive stronger legal strategy.
Before joining Unified CLO, Krista managed more than 250 complex discovery matters annually, advising clients on subpoena compliance, data privacy, document review, and evidence management. She also serves as a mentor to Unified CLO's legal team, helping attorneys strengthen case development, discovery strategy, and evidence analysis across client matters.
Why Clients Call Krista
Clients call Krista when the documents become overwhelming.
Whether responding to a subpoena, preparing for litigation, conducting an internal investigation, or evaluating a potential dispute, Krista helps legal teams organize large volumes of information into clear timelines, factual narratives, and practical legal strategy.
She believes strong legal strategy begins with understanding the facts. By identifying key evidence, organizing complex records, and developing accurate chronologies, Krista helps clients and outside counsel understand the complete picture before critical legal decisions are made.
Krista’s Story
Krista O'Donnell has built her career around bringing order to complexity.
She enjoys taking massive volumes of information and transforming them into clear, organized facts that help legal teams make better decisions. Whether reviewing hundreds of thousands of documents, developing detailed timelines, or helping attorneys identify the evidence that truly matters, Krista believes successful litigation and investigations begin with understanding the complete story.
Before joining Unified CLO, Krista served as Of Counsel and eDiscovery Manager at Long & Robinson, where she managed more than 250 discovery matters annually involving subpoena compliance, privacy requests, privilege review, and complex litigation support. She developed efficient workflows that helped clients respond quickly while maintaining accuracy and defensibility.
Earlier in her career, Krista spent nearly a decade supporting large-scale pharmaceutical litigation at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, where she worked alongside trial teams managing complex discovery, witness preparation, and evidence analysis in high-stakes matters.
Today, Krista leads Unified CLO's Early Case Assessment and Discovery Strategy practice. In addition to advising clients, she mentors many of the firm's Associate General Counsel, helping them strengthen discovery strategy, evidence analysis, and factual case development. She believes the strongest legal arguments begin with the strongest understanding of the facts.
Career Experience
Unified CLO
Associate General Counsel
Leads Unified CLO's Early Case Assessment and Discovery Strategy practice, helping clients organize evidence, manage discovery, develop timelines, and strengthen litigation and investigation strategy.
Serves as a mentor to Unified CLO's Associate General Counsel, providing guidance on discovery strategy, evidence development, and technology-assisted review while helping maintain consistent best practices across the firm's litigation and investigation matters.
Long & Robinson, LLC
Of Counsel | eDiscovery Manager
Managed more than 250 complex discovery matters annually involving subpoena compliance, data privacy, privilege review, document production, and evidence management.
Advised clients on efficient discovery strategy while implementing technology-driven workflows that improved defensibility, efficiency, and cost management.
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
Discovery Attorney
Supported large-scale pharmaceutical litigation involving extensive document review, issue analysis, witness preparation, and trial support.
Worked closely with litigation teams to organize complex evidence, identify critical documents, and strengthen factual development throughout the discovery process.
How Krista Helps Clients
Early Case Assessment
Krista helps clients understand the facts before positions become entrenched. She organizes evidence, develops timelines, identifies key documents, and builds the factual foundation that supports stronger legal strategy from the earliest stages of a matter.
Discovery Strategy & Evidence Management
Managing complex discovery requires more than reviewing documents. Krista develops efficient discovery strategies that help legal teams identify critical evidence, protect privileged information, and respond confidently to litigation demands.
Data Privacy & Information Governance
Krista advises clients on subpoena compliance, privacy obligations, data subject access requests, and document production under GDPR, CCPA, and evolving privacy laws, helping organizations meet legal obligations while minimizing disruption.
Internal Investigations
Whether supporting employment matters, regulatory inquiries, fraud investigations, or litigation, Krista helps legal teams organize facts, identify patterns, and transform large volumes of information into clear, defensible narratives.
Education
Ghent University
Master of Laws (LL.M.), European Law
Saint Louis University School of Law
Juris Doctor, Certificate in International Law
Rockhurst University
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
Bar Admissions
Missouri
Beyond the Bar
Born in Seoul, South Korea and adopted by her Irish and Italian-American family, Krista developed an early appreciation for different cultures, perspectives, and, eventually, really good espresso.
She's also a proud graduate of an all-girls high school, where she was voted "Most Likely to Stay a Bachelorette," a title she still embraces with a healthy sense of humor.
At home, Krista is the devoted caretaker of more than 20 tropical plants. Friends joke that she gives each one the same patience and attention to detail she brings to organizing complex evidence and untangling difficult legal matters.
Ready to Talk?
Whether your company needs an experienced General Counsel, strategic legal guidance, or executive-level legal leadership, Unified CLO is ready to help.
Schedule a Conversation
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