Eric Steinberg Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ohio, United States

• (merged with The Gnoesis Group)
• Reviewed e-discovery documents for lawsuits in areas including toxic torts, construction law, tax audits, invasion of privacy, misappropriation of trade secrets, and pharmaceutical personal injury
• QC Team Lead on several document legal review projects, executed quality control (QC) on coding decisions of first-level reviewers and provided feedback to management on reviewers
• Performed second-level privilege review of e-discovery production to verify responsiveness and determine type of privilege: partial, full, attorney-client, and work product
• Determined whether and how e-discovery documents would be entered in the production privilege log
• Redacted e-discovery documents to protect privacy and privilege and non-responsive content from disclosure

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

• Performed Quality Control (QC) on the document coding decisions by other contract attorneys
• Reviewed e-discovery documents for responsiveness, significance, and relevance for a big-five health insurance company in two lawsuits to recover overpayments in large-scale billing schemes
• Reviewed electronic documents for responsiveness and privilege for FTC investigation of potential merger

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Reviewed commercial loan files as discovery for class action lawsuit
• Reviewed work product of other document reviewers
• Coordinated worksite when supervising attorneys were not present

• Researched and advised on marketing and sales strategies
• Created new privacy policy to comply with HIPPA requirements for medical record protection

• Facilitated creation of a project plan to implement a 20 plant preventive maintenance program
• Worked with System Variation Analysts to review existing SOPs; consulted with process owners to revise and improve operations as part of the implementation of the new company playbook
• Guided stakeholders in utilizing Theory of Constraints (TOC) tools to plan departmental projects
• Managed project to improve production scheduling and plant operations using TOC drum buffer rope algorithm
• Developed plan to implement plant quality program, including product testing
• Optimized project plans according to critical chain

The Deming Scholars Program is a rigorous quality-based honors program which accepts only 15 students annually. At its core are W. Edward Deming’s teachings, including statistical process control (upon which Six Sigma is based). Education acquired during five academic semesters was applied between semesters through internships at top companies:

• Created intranet document repository to centralize and standardize documents used by affiliates’ legal departments
• Reviewed pro bono participation at outside firms to identify program partnership opportunities
• Analyzed survey results of outside law firms’ diversity practices at to determine which firms met Wyndham’s requirements

• Reduced financial and legal exposure by reviewing clients’ standing instructions to bankers, assessing the associated risks, and mitigating those risks
• Analyzed cases when bankers made exceptions to loan criteria ratio to identify patterns; recommended revision of criteria to reduce loan defaults

• Drafted Risk Management Plan and Change Management Plan for two $5 million customer service center technology projects (implementing a speech recognition phone system and a knowledge database)
• Amended project plans to reflect stakeholders’ revised specifications
• Determined root causes of claims adjustors’ declining productivity using statistical analysis

• Helped manage an inventory of the company’s electronic information systems to comply with revised Federal electronic discovery rules as part of the cross-functional leadership team
• Reviewed security breach procedures and reduced potential legal exposure through revisions
• Created a state-by-state guide for U.S. breach of privacy law

• Researched and drafted decisions on diverse areas of law including: contracts, commercial and residential real estate, commercial, claims coverage, UCC, negligence, no-fault, and employment
• Interpreted various contracts, including leases, during settlement discussions and when drafting decisions
• Managed calendars with hundreds of cases and assured that decisions were written within administrative deadlines
• Improved office efficiency through new and redesigned processes

• Negotiated disputes during settlement conferences, proposing win-win resolutions
• Saved thousands of dollars in litigation costs for each negotiated settlement
• Developed expertise in commercial and residential landlord/tenant law through frequent Housing Court assignments
• Assessed cases based on strength of evidence, type and magnitude of damages and relevant statutory and case law
• Interpreted various contracts, including leases, during settlement discussions and when drafting decisions
• Handled thousands of insurance claims, many involving allegations of fraud, through drafted decisions and settlement

Mba, Management Systems

Activities and Societies: Class Representative, Deming Scholars Alumni Group, Vice President Alumni Affairs, Deming Management Club Deming.

J.D., Law

Activities and Societies: Exchequer, Phi Delta Phi; Jewish Student Bar; American Trial Lawyers Association

Ba, Political Science, English And Psych Minors