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    eDiscovery

 

  • Implementation of eDiscovery programs, including tasks such as: completion of key project tasks; ensuring compliance with case law, statutes, and regulatory protocols regarding Electronically Stored Information (ESI); managing the collection, preservation, production and search for documents in response to discovery and regulatory requests; providing consultation regarding data collection; policy development and implementation; procedure development; process design; technology strategy; and, vendor management.

 

  • Designed, documented and implemented eDiscovery corporate policies, processes and procedures, including detailed sections on preservation, collection, search methodology, and production.

 

  • Responsible for organizing, managing and participating in eDiscovery projects, including collection, managing the review and analytics platforms, preservation, processing, providing user support, running productions and managing various eDiscovery services in compliance with corporate policies and practices.

 

  • Formed, articulated, and implemented eDiscovery workflow advice based on case requirements, client priorities, and time frame needs , and led the planning and implementation of eDiscovery projects.

 

  • Management of litigation support services throughout the life cycle of a litigation, including analytics, data collection strategy, metrics, processing, review of workflow and production deliverables.

 

  • Consultation on eDiscovery cost-effective best practices and processes and provided guidelines for the collection, processing, review and production of documents.

 

  • Document production, including all pre-production and post-production activities, chain of custody issues, the transfer of data onto electronic media, creating batches and running searches.

 

  • Managed complex eDiscovery tasks as part of the compliance and litigation life cycle.

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  • Consultation to management and personnel regarding the legal hold process.

 

  • Liaison to outside counsel's eDiscovery team and assists in the preparation of outside counsel for required meet-and-confer sessions.

 

  • Assists in the management of outside vendors for eDiscovery services.

 

  • Conducts audits to determine the effectiveness of collection, discovery and preservation protocols.

 

  • Knowledge of eDiscovery case law, statutes, and regulatory protocols related to preservation, search and retrieval, scope of discovery, and rules of attorney-client privilege and attorney work-product doctrine.

 

  • eDiscovery best practices including Sedona Conference principles and the electronic discovery reference model (EDRM).

 

  • Legal eDiscovery experience with governments, in-house law departments and law firms.

 

  • Management of document review quality control activities.

 

  • Legal support for implementing advanced analytics workflows and effective quality control processes, including technology-assisted review (TAR) or other cutting-edge technology enhancements.

 

  • Working knowledge of digital forensics and analysis, eDiscovery processing platforms, eDiscovery review platforms, TAR, advanced analytics and predictive analytics.

 

  • Effective work plan development, time prioritization and budget management.

 

  • Collaboration with attorneys, forensic providers, information technology (IT) personnel, managed review team, paralegals and other members of the legal team to ensure the successful completion of eDiscovery matters.

 

  • Consultation on search term analysis, report generation and data culling strategies.

 

  • Developed and managed project plans, budgets, resource allocation, and project timelines.

 

  • Provided periodic reports and presentations to all stakeholders regarding the progress and effectiveness of document collection and eDiscovery projects.

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  • At the completion of eDiscovery projects, analyzed the data gleaned from the results and then created reports to identify possible improvements for future projects.

 

  • Oversight of analytics, batch organization, data loading, interface layout and production runs.

 

  • Management of assisted review best practices, schedules and workflows.

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  • Legal support for forensic data collection best practices, management and tools.

 

  • Experience with enhanced due diligence (EDD) processes, tools and systems involving innovative technologies.

 

  • Collaboration with subject matter experts (SMEs) to develop effective strategies for mining and handling data from collection through final review, to production.

 

  • Consultation for building, maintaining and troubleshooting complex eDiscovery databases, culling and analyzing data, employing advanced analytics, concept clustering, early case assessment (ECA) processes and predictive analytics.

 

  • Managed the loading of new or updated data, images, and native files for the project.

 

  • Managed large and diverse collections of e-mails, images, and native files in combination with database management.

 

  • Quality control and review of all work product, including data from outsourced vendors and third parties.

 

  • Assisted users with problems and questions and guided legal teams through the entire eDiscovery process.

 

  • Trained attorneys and paralegals when needed in the effective use of the chosen eDiscovery platform.

 

  • Use of confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, hardware and software tools to maintain and enforce strict confidentiality among all eDiscovery team members throughout the project.

 

  • Managed all aspects of eDiscovery activity involving data management, data production, document retention, eDiscovery, and effective allocation of scarce resources.

 

  • Analyzed, gatherd and authored clear and concise job specifications for outsourced vendors.

 

  • Developed corporate policies, onsite protocols and strategies for the efficient collection and processing of discovery and production data.

 

  • Assembled data sets using commercially-available data mining software platforms, document processing software and hardware platforms and document review tools.

 

  • Manages eDiscovery projects utilizing project management software platforms, analyzes productivity of eDiscovery team members and completes all required electronic tracking forms.

 

  • Legal support for the analysis, data mining and presentation of patterns and trends using ECA advanced analytics and predictive analytics.

 

  • Provides advice to legal teams in the proper methods of data collection, preservation, processing, production, and retention, including attending Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) Rule 26(f) discovery planning conferences.

 

  • Oversees work performed by analysts, specialists and subject matter experts (SMEs) and provides hands-on processing of e-mail collections, native files, and image collections, moving data through to the document review platform.

 

  • Observes standard eDiscovery conventions and best practices, such as culling data, deduplication, multiple search criteria, time management through the use of complex search query strings.

 

  • Oversight of back-end server maintenance, folder structure of databases, image collection, mail stores, native files, and redactions.

 

  • Provides legal support and management for the identification and archiving of old paper and electronic case data.

 

  • Manages the document production processing lifecycle, from acquisition of a project, initial interface with eDiscovery team personnel, deliverable distribution, any post-processing collections and dissemination of privilege logs.

 

  • Oversees stringent quality control checks of data and load files created internally or from vendors and other third-party sources, for loading into eDiscovery platforms.

 

  • Provides training as required for individuals, groups, management, or customized training, application support and troubleshooting as may be requested.

 

  • Liaison for trial presentation vendors in preparing trial equipment, software and exhibits, presenting documents, video clips, photos, and courtroom demonstration graphics and animations.

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  • Management of testing existing and new software, and organizes and participates in vendor demonstrations.

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  • Tracked all time and productivity of all eDiscovery team members on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

 

  • Legal support through the entire Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) lifecycle, for electronic and paper discovery and production, as well as eDiscovery technology best practices.

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  • Familiarity with managed services or online hosting environments, database searchability and methodology.

 

  • Provided training on the particular eDiscovery platform being used for the project, and on the particular keywords, phrases and concepts for which to check during the eDiscovery review.

 

  • Experience with eDiscovery processing software, review platforms, repository administration, and various file management applications and protocols, such as Acrobat and FTP.

 

  • Familiarity with imaging technologies, optical character recognition (OCR) software and extracted text, near-native review, e-mail threading, and text encoding.

 

  • Experience with Brainspace, Cellebrite, EnCase, H5 Matter Analytics, HCL Domino, HCL Notes, Microsoft .NET framework, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Basic++, Linux, NexLP, Nuix, Paraben, Unix, X1.

 

  • Researched, evaluated, tested, recommended, procured and used many eDiscovery software platforms, such as CaseFleet, CloudNine, Discover360, Discovery Attender, Exterro, eZReview, iConect-xera, Lexbe eDiscovery Platform, LexisNexis Concordance and LAW PreDiscovery, Logikcull, Nextpoint, Relativity, Reprise, Reveal Data, Thomson Reuters West Case Notebook, Sanction and Trial Director, Z-Discovery.

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    Last updated 200615_1604

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