Jake Pennington-Slater

Jake is Freeths technical lead in the Legal Data Analytics team – responsible for providing solutions to complex data challenges for clients and colleagues alike.

Jake is a data and eDiscovery specialist with more than 11 years’ experience across digital forensics, eDiscovery, and legal technology – delivering solutions to clients across disputes & litigation, investigations, and regulatory requests.

Jake has worked on multi-jurisdictional class actions, managed fully end-to-end solutions for DSAR’s, helped uncover key documents in IP thefts, managed large-scale data collections within insolvency, and streamlined disputes with circa 10 million documents.

Jake delivers a highly technical and strategic methodology, helping clients marshal their data and navigate the growing size and complexity of modern data through advanced technology. This experience and approach to modern day data provides huge efficiencies and optimises the typical manual process of document review and disclosure.

• For clients navigating complex commercial disputes and multi-jurisdictional litigation, Jake leads and supports eDiscovery strategies across the full EDRM, from data collection and processing through to analysis and disclosure

• For clients facing investigations and regulatory requests, Jake provides clear, practical guidance — translating complex technical issues into straightforward solutions that help clients navigate increasingly sophisticated digital evidence landscapes

• For legal teams managing high-volume document reviews, Jake applies advanced analytics and legal technology — including emerging AI capabilities — to improve efficiency, accuracy and cost control, ensuring defensible and commercially focused outcomes