★ Maintains accountability for eDiscovery processes in support of all litigation matters across multiple departments.

★ Leads the management of legal operations to meet deadlines, gather information, and provide support to attorneys with respect to technology issues.

★ Develops relationships with a network of vendors providing technology solutions to meet the needs of the firm.

★ Trains employees on technologies and applications that include eDiscovery platforms, data analytics tools, and document management systems.

★ Directs projects, including requirements gathering, project scope definition, budgets, reports and documentation, and timelines.

★ Provides guidance to clients and attorneys on regulatory requirements impacting data privacy, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

★ Implemented industry-standard data analytics tools that reduced the volume in a document review project by 60%, from 300,000 documents to 120,000.

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ABOUT SCHULTE ROTH & ZABEL LLP

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP is a full-service law firm with offices in New York, Washington DC, and London. The firm provides legal services to some of the world's largest hedge funds and thousands of investment funds globally.

★ Orchestrated and executed Practice Technologies projects to support litigation matters, managing the RFP process, selecting vendors, and overseeing vendor performance and invoices throughout each initiative.

★ Provided in-house support for litigation technologies used by legal teams. Developed training materials and manuals to educate personnel on the use of litigation tools.

★ Worked with legal teams to gather requirements and develop strategies and solutions to organize and manage large volumes of data. Defined and enforced protocols for Electronically Stored Information (ESI) and tracked ESI costs.

★ Analyzed ESI pricing and budgets for client RFP responses. Evaluated the costs associated with ESI review and production against budgets, investigating all variances.

★ Defined data and information governance frameworks, recommending an approach to log information on hard drives, CDs, and removable storage media, encrypted and stored on a central database to enable easy searching. Ran the pilot project in the New York office, which was then adopted by all offices.

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ABOUT VENABLE LLP

Venable specializes in corporate and business law, complex litigation, intellectual property, and government affairs. The firm’s litigation practice carries a particularly heavy workload in products liability, toxic torts, and environmental law cases.