Can you give us an inside glimpse at the Susan growing up?
I am a child of Italian-born parents, Maria and Franco Ippoliti, who immigrated to the U.S. before I was born.
My parents settled in Rochester, New
York and had two girls, my sister Frances and me. Rochester is where I grew up. My father showed me how to keep reaching for the top. He was the VP of Design for Hickey Freeman Corporation for over 40 years.
Growing up, I thought I was going to be a
teacher. I was an inquisitive child and in addition, I was always helping someone. In some respects, I have followed through on being a teacher as I now teach paralegal school in addition to my everyday job.
I had an early interest in law during high school and then evolved through my college years. I went to St. John Fisher College and received a degree in Political Science and a minor in Pre-Law. Once out of college, I decided to get my feet wet and landed my first paralegal position in 1996, two weeks after graduation. I never looked back after that.
If you weren't a paralegal, what would your life look like?
I would be in politics! I think I made the right choice!
You’re not in a traditional paralegal career, yet so many people seem to know and respect the name Susan Ippoliti. How did that come about? Hopefully, they will come to know me as Susan Ippoliti Kavanagh as I married my wonder- ful husband, Neil, just a little over a year ago.
My career started in the small legal sector, working for small law firms in medical malpractice and personal injury. I moved to a large law firm where I landed in labor and employment, intellec- tual property litigation and commercial litigation.
It was during that time I realized my love 34
for technology. E-Discov- ery had not yet become a profession as it is now and everyone was deciding how to navigate through the disclosure of elec- tronically stored informa- tion. The FRCP had not changed yet to deal with this but I saw a niche.
I started my own
company offering litiga- tion services to small and solo practitioners as a means to give them a lead- ing edge with the larger firms.
Through business
relationships, I was con- nected with a computer forensics/e-discovery firm and have been working in E-Discovery practice ever since.
What kind of work do you do now?
Presently I work
for FDD USA, LLC in Rochester, New York, as the Practice Manager and Senior Technology Parale- gal.
My responsibili-
ties include managing the E-Discovery Lifecycle on the national and internation- al level and I have co-chaired the EDRM Code of Con- duct working group.
I consult with law firms and corporations on
proper document management, electronic discovery processes, practice and procedures, litigation support, regulatory compliance, document retention and docu- ment destruction practices. My experience also in- cludes sales of services and account management.
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what she knew (the law) and the area that ex- cited her the most and fed her entre- preneurial desire.”
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