Contract attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP through Inspired Review. Electronically review documents for various case matters, including litigation dealing with medical billing, products liability, environmental law, employment law, and patent infringement. Utilize a variety of review platforms, including Clearwell, Concordance, and Relativity. Code documents for responsiveness to substantive issues, as well as potential privilege and confidentiality. Additionally, perform subjective analysis to identify documents of particular use for depositions or trial proceedings. Utilize end of branch analysis to perform batch tagging of multiple documents at once in the Clearwell review platform. When necessary, apply redactions and assist with the construction of a privilege log.

Contract attorney at Nelson Mullins Encompass through Carolina Legal Associates. Electronically reviewed documents using TCDI ClarVergence software for several cases, including a patent litigation and federal criminal proceedings. Coded documents for issue responsiveness and various levels of confidentiality. Promoted within the first month of the project and served as a quality control team leader. In the role, provided feedback and guidance to a team of ten attorneys, in addition to assessing produced documents for coding accuracy and appropriate application of redactions. Also received training in and assisted with privilege review and the construction of a privilege log, and served as quality control reviewer for privilege issues, ensuring the accuracy of first level privilege coding.

Contract attorney at DLA Piper through Lexolution. Electronically reviewed documents using Relativity software for a litigation matter relating to healthcare law, and specifically involving emergency room billing practices and hospital CDMs. Provided legal analysis of documents where appropriate. Reviewed all documents for privilege issues. Assisted with the construction of a detailed e-mail log for e-mail documents that were highly sensitive and/or important. Was promoted to perform quality control review of previously reviewed documents for the last three months of the project. Was also one of only two reviewers to be kept on the project for its entire length. Reviewed an average of 70+ documents per hour.

Contract attorney through Evolve Discovery. Electronically reviewed documents using Relativity software. Tagged documents for responsiveness to specifications and provided legal analysis of certain documents when appropriate. Also performed a privilege review of each document for the purposes of constructing a privilege log. Reviewed an average of 60-70 documents per hour. This contract assignment consisted of two separate review projects, each focusing on anti-trust issues related to corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Drafted content licensing agreements for use with third-party advertising agencies. Researched content restrictions and provided legal clearances for video/audio content to be included on DVD samplers. Drafted and reviewed contest and sweepstakes entry forms and rules to meet various legal requirements. Wrote legal responses to consumer complaints made to local and state business monitoring agencies.

Assisted Professor Jennifer Mnookin with various academic projects. Conducted complicated research projects using a variety of academic search databases and book based research; formatted articles and chapters to meet appropriate style guidelines; proofread and edited written pieces before submission.

Performed administrative duties, including directing phone calls and ordering office supplies. Expanded the role to include contract and licensing agreement interpretation, royalty rate set-up, statement review, and mailing, which led to a thorough understanding of both publishing and artist royalty and licensing systems. Developed and implemented a new contract filing method. Served as an executive assistant to the Senior Vice-President.

Summer position. Rose to the position of head file clerk. Oversaw maintenance of the main file room. Filed paper work, maintained thousands of files, and mailed documents daily to lawyers. Implemented organizational and procedural changes, such as a file scanning system, that resulted in increased efficiency. Performed docketing for all case types.