Manage a team of e-discovery professionals in providing litigation support services for the Department of Justice. Provide advice to attorney/paralegal case teams covering all aspects of discovery, including: collection, processing, review workflow, and production of ESI.

Manage electronic discovery projects from inception to conclusion, including, but not limited to, working closely with Sales and potential clients to evaluate their e-discovery needs based on my legal background and training; make ESI recommendations to all involved; and manage pre and post-processing workflows. Once data is processed, I oversee and assist clients in utilyzing hosting review tools, provide requested status reports, and act as back-end administrator to ensure customer satisfaction. I maintain constant contact with all involved parties, to ensure the review and eventual production(s) are trouble free.

* Coordinated with Litigation Support Services and outside vendors in acquiring the correct set of databases to store, organize, and analyze documents necessary for attorneys to successfully litigate their cases. * Supported attorneys throughout the litigation's life cycle for Section 337 and Federal District court cases. Assisted with preparing and filing the complaint, deposition preparation, document production, cite checking, and trial support.* Used Relativity and Concordance to organize, locate, and retrieve production documents* Reviewed production documents in Chinese for possible relevance in litigation case.* Mentored junior level paralegals.

* Supported attorneys with legal research and with the preparation, filing and service of pleadings, discovery, production documents, transcripts, exhibits, and correspondence. Also assisted attorneys with cite checking. Responsible for case setup and database management, including the maintenance of case calendars. * Instructed new attorneys in how to use litigation support applications. * Created and managed relationships with vendors. * Recommended a new process in filing international applications. Recommendation was approved and implemented, which resulted in fewer errors and faster processing time. * Oversaw the foreign filing of the group's largest client. Recognized by the client for providing excellent customer satisfaction. * Analyzed clients' costs and fees for settlement purposes.

* Reviewed, analyzed and responded to correspondence from the client and foreign associate. * Reconciled the deposit account at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which resulted in clients' bills to timely reflect costs associated with patent filings. * Managed the annuities/maintenance fees of all U.S. and foreign patents, which prevented the patents from becoming irreversibly lapsed and abandoned. * Assisted the firm's Intellectual Property Manager in opening the new patent group in the DC office. Observed new staff members had difficulty in acclimating to the firm, informed the firm's HR manager which resulted in various activities that facilitated the cohesion of the new office. * Attended a seminar on new docketing software and provided my feedback to the managing partner. Assisted the IP Manager in cleaning up the docketing database to simplify the migration to the new docketing database. * Reviewed correspondence, docketed due dates, updated the docket, and created and distributed docket reports. * Coordinated with the Records department in handling mass incoming and outgoing transfers.

* Allocated and managed the filing process for approximately 80 patent applications per month. * Devised and implemented a faster process for communicating Notices of Allowances to clients, resulting in the elimination of a 2 month backlog in reporting.

* Assisted lobbying staff in enhancing Taiwan's profile in Congress.

* Assisted scholars on projects involving phone interviews with Kentucky government officials for obtaining recent economic developments, census data analysis, and in-depth research on urban sprawl in Maryland. Also assisted in the economic analysis of the local economies in Kentucky and Eastern Shore Maryland.

* Maintained 120 401(k) retirement plans, which involved allocating, fund contributions and account distributions on a daily basis.

* Supervised and coordinated the schedules of teachers. * Assisted in promoting study abroad programs by designing and distributing advertisements, attending information centers at various corporations promoting the institute's services.

* Administered 29 retirement accounts with universities, hospitals, and organizations, which involved daily communication with plan administrators to allocate fund contributions, account distributions, and creating accounts for new employees.