MARTHA A. "MARTY" MAZZONE is a vice president and associate general counsel of Fidelity Investments. She serves as the company's expert counsel on all major case and regulatory discovery for litigation in all branches of Fidelity's business, and manages a large extended team of lawyers and litigation technology support staff conducting centralized and streamlined eDiscovery efforts. Ms. Mazzone advises on best practices and policies in records management and retention, retrieval of electronic communications, and prelitigation readiness. She also supports numerous legal and compliance technology initiatives. Finally, she maintains a small but active caseload of her own, managing third-party subpoena responses, regulatory investigations, and litigation matters. Before she joined Fidelity, Ms. Mazzone was a partner at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston, where her work included accounting and white collar defense, government and internal investigations, and general commercial litigation, including representing an accounting firm in one of the largest securities fraud class action lawsuits (and related governmental investigations) ever brought. She also defended a number of pharmaceutical clients in federal white collar investigations and civil class actions. As a general litigator, she defended clients from case initiation through conclusion in contract and franchise disputes, employment actions, and other general litigation matters. Before joining Foley Hoag, she practiced at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C., focusing on health care fraud defense and government and internal investigations, and clerked for the Honorable Robert L. Karwacki of the Maryland Court of Appeals. She was awarded her J.D. with highest honors from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1995, and graduated from Harvard University with a B.A., cum laude, in 1982. Prior to becoming an attorney, and following her graduation from Harvard, Ms. Mazzone worked in Massachusetts and Maryland in various government agencies serving the needs of children and families, including the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, the Maryland Department of Social Services, and the Offices of the Mayor of Baltimore and the Governor of Maryland. She was also deputy director for the United States chapters at Special Olympics International. (September 2009)