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United States

Leading Global Legal Consulting practice delivering guidance to corporate legal departments and law firms on leveraging innovative solutions combined with proven methodologies and governance, to run their practices efficiently, resulting in effective meeting of their business needs. Advising on aligning operations, technology, innovation, process, and project management resulting in the ability of practice groups’ ability to run as true business units. Developing and delivering a disciplined and systematic approach for tactical management, enabled by trusted technologies via functional programs & project plans allowing positive change and flexibility for efficient technology empowered management.Delivering cost-effective analytics-driven eDiscovery and Information Governance solutions supported by a wide array of modern tools and defensible best practices. Providing subject-matter expert testimony in support of technology and processes.

Greater New York City Area

Aligned operations, technology, innovation, process, and project management resulting in the ability of practice groups’ ability to run as true business units.Modernized delivery of legal product and realized savings by replacing manual processes with automated ones while utilizing existing products and services. Guided an effective adaption of new technologies and efficient use of existing products and services. Advised on marketing of competitive differentials.Developed and delivered a disciplined and systematic approach for tactical management, enabled by trusted technologies via functional programs & project plans allowing positive change and flexibility for efficient technology empowered management.Enabled greater control, increased visibility, and better security & compliance using Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics and delivered standardized reporting, dashboard implementation, process alignment, and consistency across practice groups.Assured seamless change management with internal buy-in to achieve set goals. Provided a positive change in the way legal services are managed through education, empowerment, and acting as a facilitator. Maximized efficiencies by identifying and filling gaps and removing overlap in service delivery by examining organizational and cultural inter-dependencies.Equipped law firms with best practices on how to maximize their resources and utilize technology to set the standard for service delivery and establish them as technology and innovation leaders in their peer groups.

Greater New York City Area

Provided legal technology and services advice to law firms and law departments worldwide. Applied unique experience and intimate knowledge of legal operations to help implement internal functions innovation and consolidation via delivery of dashboards, metrics and business intelligence, best practices in legal project management and legal process outsourcing, resulting in modernization of practice management functions, including business development & marketing, matter management and electronic billing, business conflicts, information technology, knowledge management and law library; records and information governance. Provided advice to firm leadership, department chairs, business unit leaders, and other key stakeholders in the design and execution of strategic plans, including development of firm wide consistent collaborative strategies to develop unified go to market strategy and competitive differential. Advised and assisted with the development and management of annual revenue and expense budgets for the firm’s functions and practice groups; including setting benchmarks for activity levels, realization, leverage, office, client, and partner profitability, billing and collections, and other metrics—identify potential issues and risks, analyze variance, and work towards solution.Centralized global practice specific services and achieved operational budget reduction by over 30% while delivering significant service improvements of overall business operations, reference and information services, case specific research, business & competitive intelligence and business development, eDiscovery services as well as centralized practice specific information access via the use of portals.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Greater New York City Area

Managed a global team of 50 professionals in multiple offices worldwide. Responsible for strategic implementation of practice specific and information management solutions and services. Oversight of firm wide practice management function, including management of practice group budgets, pricing models, billing, collections, profitability & go-to market strategies, & business development in conjunction with practice groups’ leaders. Global responsibility for project management office, knowledge management and information services (library), information governance and records management, new matter intake and business conflicts departments. Advised firm’s attorneys and clients on all aspects of information, document and knowledge management, applied legal technology, compliance and retention of electronic records, new matter intake and business conflicts. Selection and standardization of global practice specific applications and procedures. Advised firm and practice groups’ leadership on effective usage of technology, electronic legal research and knowledge management.Consulted to external Firm’s clients and assisted with business development. Participated in planning meetings with key partners and their clients’ corporate council at the onset of every supported case to gather technology & services requirements and develop strategy for delivery of legal product. Marketing practice management function to firm’s external clients as an undivided part of legal services assuring clients’ understanding of the function as a time and cost saving value add.

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Oversight of firmwide Litigation Support Services.Accomplishments:- Managed a centralized litigation support team providing support for all aspects of litigation, intellectual property and bankruptcy cases including preservation, document mining and collection, forensic recovery, data processing, database creation, document review & production, preparation of case witnesses, supporting case depositions, post-deposition activities, trial preparation and support. - Established criteria for profitable litigation support function, including negotiation of rates, realization and recovery in conjunction with internal investment in the infrastructure and software supporting the function. - Established protocols of outsourcing for electronic data processing, scanning and coding of paper documents and creation of database import into internal discovery systems.- Supported internal discovery hosting databases, and managed document review.- Set strategy for use of applied technology for all practice groups via membership in firm’s technology committee.

Oversight of firmwide day-to-day activities of Technical Litigation Support department. Accomplishments:- Day-to-day management of the first in the industry Litigation Support function assisting large litigation cases.- Developed an internal proprietary technology for printing of electronic data, scanning and coding of paper documents, and creation of discovery databases. - Managed outsourcing for scanning and coding. - Provided legal technical consulting and support to case teams. Supported every stage of firm’s multiple large litigation cases: initial filing; motion practice; electronic and paper document discovery; creation, maintenance and support of discovery databases; document review; document production; preparation and support of depositions; and trial support.