Aaron D. Crews

As Littler's first Chief Data Analytics Officer, Aaron D. Crews leads the firm’s data analytics practice and Big Data strategy. Leveraging an extensive background focused on the intersection of technology, business, and the law, Aaron’s team of lawyers, analysts, statisticians, and data scientists work with clients and case teams to harness the power of data to build superior legal strategies and improve legal outcomes. This team also advises the firm and its clients on the development, implementation, and use of analytic models, machine learning and algorithm driven technologies (often called AI), and using data visualization/data storytelling to enable insight, drive understanding, and extract value. Littler’s long-held dedication to innovation is exemplified in this team, and the firm is one of the first in the United States to hire a leader dedicated exclusively to data analytics and Big Data into a position in its C-Suite. 

Because of his professional experience - which includes time spent as an associate and shareholder at Littler, a stint as Senior Associate General Counsel responsible for eDiscovery at the number one company on the Fortune 500 list, and time as General Counsel and Vice President of Strategy at an Artificial Intelligence start-up - Aaron uniquely understands the pressures clients face, and their need to leverage technology to extract maximum value from partnerships with outside counsel. The solutions offered by Littler’s Data Analytics Group are specifically designed to help alleviate these pressures and provide a demonstrable increase in the value clients derive from our services.

Aaron has lectured and published extensively on the topics of eDiscovery, Information Governance, Big Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence. He is particularly well known for bringing cutting-edge solutions to the most difficult problems faced by clients, holding a patent for some of his work.

In addition, Aaron is a member of the firm’s Innovation Advisory Council, which is tasked with reengineering the traditional practice of law to bring to clients cost-effective and forward-thinking solutions that employ leading-edge technology, project management skills, and alternative pricing strategies. He is also a part of the team responsible for the development and rollout of the Littler Pay Equity Assessment™, and is deeply involved in the leadership of the firm’s AI and Robotics practice, its Pay Equity and OFCCP practices, and its public policy arm, the Workplace Policy Institute.