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Karen Halbert began her career at Arkansas Systems as a mainframe developer using CICS and Cobol and then became active in installation and support of online banking packages for IBM minicomputers. She became head of development for the main company product, Integrated Transaction Management, and head of product planning, development and delivery of that product globally, before becoming a Corporate Vice President. After the acquisition of Arkansas Systems by Euronet Worldwide in 1998, Karen served as Development Vice President and shepherded the company’s products through Y2K. While serving as Vice President, Karen earned a law degree in her spare time. Karen has significant experience architecting and implementing complex e-discovery solutions. She developed an e-discovery management solution that manages millions of electronic records from various sources as well as millions of paper documents. Her expertise includes managing e-discovery vendors, coordinating collection of electronic data with Information Technology Departments, determining how to best process electronic data, as well as production of clients’ electronic evidence and emails. Karen Halbert was recently honored with a Golden Advocate Award at the Annual Government Day of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) in Washington D.C. She received the At Home on the Hill award for her tireless work in lobbying Congress to provide more funding for research to find a cure for Juvenile Diabetes. Karen is on the Board of Directors for the JDRF Greater Arkansas Chapter and serves as the chapter’s government relations liaison.