Lorrie is a shareholder and a founding member of the firm's Document Control Group where she advises clients on the creation and implementation of information retention policies and schedules.

Lorrie has extensive experience in working with clients in evaluation of current retention policies and procedures for both litigation related matters and overall company operations.  She as has helped to create and implement strategies for Fortune 100 companies.  Lorrie's background in litigation and real estate law led her to help create Ryley Carlock's Document Control Group.

Her recent experience includes:

• Designed corporate level records retention policy for Fortune 500 Company.
  
  
• Produced records retention schedules for corporate-wide implementation for large and diverse multinational company with several hundred subsidiaries.
  
  
• Responsible for implementation, training and auditing the classification of over 20,000 boxes of legacy records using company's records retention schedules.

Lorrie received her LL.M. from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  While attending Harvard, she was also a guest lecturer at Boston College of Law.  Lorrie received her J.D., magna cum laude, from California Western School of Law in San Diego, California, where she received numerous awards including three American Jurisprudence Awards in civil procedure, torts, and women and the law.  She received her B.S., cum laude, from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

Lorrie received the highest score on the Arizona Bar Exam in February of 1996.  She also served as a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Irma Gonzales, United States District Court, Southern District of California.

Lorrie was born in Coolidge, Arizona. She is married to Scott A. Thurston and they have a daughter, Devynn.

The Sedona Conference, Member of the Working Group on Electronic Document Retention & Production

Maricopa County Bar Association, Member

Arizona Women Lawyers Association, Member

Harvard Club of Phoenix, Member

State Bar of Arizona, Member, Litigation Section