Edward Riel Email & Phone Number

Staff Associate April 2020 – January 2023-Performed first and second pass review for relevancy and privilege in privacy and antitrust class action matters.-Performed targeted searches to identify and review documents for inclusion in deposition prep materials.-Evaluated, iterated, and revised proposed search terms for discovery.-Assisted in Confirmatory Discovery to confirm reasonableness of class action settlements.-Drafted witness memos, timeline chronologies of events/issues and created other special projects.-Utilized Relativity and Everlaw review software.

Staff Attorney/Contract Attorney

-Searched large database for documents related to client defense issues in a criminal securities related prosecution; constructed timeline chronologies of significant events; performed factual analysis required to draft and refine witness deposition outlines and issue summaries. -Performed first and second pass review for relevancy and privilege in securities class action matters. -Performed first and second pass review for relevancy and privilege in a contract dispute arbitration. -Performed first pass review for relevancy and hot documents in an internal investigation related to A pharmaceutical services and supply organization. -Assisted in the creation and QC of Privilege Logs in class action and antitrust matters.

San Francisco Bay Area

Project Manager/Contract Attorney -Managed attorney teams and/or performed first/second pass and privilege review on various matters.-Coordinated with client Counsel to implement a quality control process for the timely and accurate delivery of work product.-Drafted weekly metrics reports, updating Counsel on the status of the review.-Researched depositions, expert reports, plaintiff’s allegations, internal and third-party documents to draft witness summaries and other research memoranda.-Identified highly relevant documents for deposition preparation.-Worked on matters in the following litigation areas: patent, antitrust, pharmaceutical products liability, consumer class action, securities, and government investigations.-Collaborated with firms including Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; Quinn Emanuel; Seubert French Frimel & Warner; Alston & Bird; Fenwick & West; Keker & Van Nest; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Cooley LLP

San Francisco Bay Area

--Coordinated with clients to develop defensible search term strategies; vet and revise search terms (i.e., adjust Boolean syntax for DT search and Clearwell platforms); provide custom search term hit reporting.-Created searches to identify hot documents and documents for deposition preparation.-Set up Pre-Production Validation searches for Production QC.-Assisted with review population prioritization utilizing Advanced Analytics Tools – i.e. clustering, batching by thread, etc.-Utilized Relativity and Clearwell review software.

Mountain View

Discovery Staff Attorney (January 2013 – February 2014)Document Review Attorney (through Adecco Group, July 2011 – December 2013) -Directed Analytics and Production related workflow for 18 team members.-Managed and trained team on search term analysis/revision workflow.-Ran final search terms across data sets for export and creation of review populations.-Searched and culled Not Responsive documents from potential review sets.-Utilized Advanced Analytics Tools (words/phrases, concept clusters) to prioritize documents for review.-Created searches to identify documents for deposition preparation. -Assisted with daily review QC/metrics reporting.-Prepped post-review documents for production; ran tagging logic searches, reconciled tagging via thread and family levels; communicated with vendors regarding production specifications and delivery.-Drafted end of project reports, memorializing Analytics and Production related procedures and metrics.-Created team training materials; kept team Wiki updated.-Worked on Patent, Antitrust and General Litigation matters.-Utilized Axcelerate, Relativity, Ringtail and Xerox review software.

-Managed a six attorney team on a first level review.-Coordinated with client Counsel to implement a quality control process for the timely and accurate delivery of work product.-Drafted weekly metrics reports, updating Counsel on the status of the review.-Performed first pass, QC and privilege log review.-Worked on patent and consumer class action matters.-Worked with the firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.-Utilized Relativity review software.-I also worked with the following firms: Gordon & Rees, O'Melveny & Myers, and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where I performed relevancy and privilege review in consumer class action and patent cases.

-Contract Attorney fluent in all phases of E-discovery, with both small and large firm experience. -Experience includes: • project management• first and second pass review• quality control review• creation of privilege and redaction logs• deposition summation• deposition prep• drafting of legal memoranda and witness summaries

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B.A., High Honors, General Scholarship, English