Talent Showcase – April 2012
April 19th, 2012Candidate # 16953 – Attorney, Consultant – Northeast Region
Relevant Experience and Accomplishments:
Attorney and expert consultant for legal teams regarding technologies and techniques to manage evidence and to manage litigation support staff and vendors. Provides advice regarding assessment of evidentiary (Electronically Stored Information and other) documents’ sources, content, media, duration and the required best-practice tasks. Responsibilities include, but not limited to, developing detailed project plans, marshalling staffing and vendor alternatives, plus measuring and managing burdens/costs involved.
Few highlights of career include the following:
- Acted as E-Discovery Coordinator: Under the direction of counsel and in cooperation with custodians and technologists, facilitated evidence identification, acquisition, review and production, guided vendor services and supported counsels’ meet-and-confer negotiations.
- Developed and Counseled Discovery Management Units: Helped counsel and develop internal discovery management units (consisting of attorneys, paralegals, technologists, etc.) to preserve, manage and assess evidence and to coordinate outside counsel’s evidence related work.
- Coordinated Enterprise-Wide Database Extraction: Coordinated technologists’ exporting data from proprietary systems (e.g., payroll, accounts receivable, claims, project management), and portrayed the data in accessible formats.
- Optimized Law Firm Litigation Support Staffing: Reviewed and helped optimize law firms’ litigation support staffing, techniques and technologies.
- Acted as Whispering Expert: Supported attorneys’ negotiations at evidence management-related meet and confer meetings, during witness preparations/depositions and other investigations.
- Formalized Budgets/Burden: Worked with producing parties to help develop and implement evidence management plans including measuring prospective costs, timelines, and staffing requirements.
- Served in Financial Fraud Cases: For more than 4000 hours served as interim Director of Litigation Support and E-Discovery for the Trustee administering bankruptcy and other legal proceedings associated with >$10 Billion financial fraud.
For more information regarding this candidate or other candidates with similar qualifications, please contact jobs@davidsongroup.com.
Candidate #16924 – Senior Executive, Professional Services – West Coast Region
Relevant Experience and Accomplishments:
Over 20 years experience in leading and managing highly successful teams in creating revenue and profit growth through new services or managing existing lines of business. Hands on experience serving as general manager, managing director, COO, and CMO. Responsible for developing strategy and managing annual plan execution; COO management including marketing, sales, technology, acquisitions and financial budget; CMO leadership including branding, marketing and business development. Created, managed and rescued leading legal industry businesses including online continuing education service, leading conference provider, industry research publications business, thought leadership and client relationship programs, Website development, consulting and advisory services and information business units. My businesses are successful because they are managed by teams of people with diverse backgrounds, education, skills and experiences operating with a common vision and mission – to win.
Positions Held:
- CMO for legal industry leading consulting and advisory service provider.
- COO responsible for business development, technology, marketing and acquisitions for the leading law school publishing business.
- General Manager, legal conference business.
- Managing Director, world-wide thought leadership programs for legal industry.
- General Manager, East Coast division, legal publishing business.
- General Manager and publisher outside authored text for leading professional services publishing business.
- General Manager Internet services development incubator.
Additional Accomplishments:
- Created and launched e-Discovery consulting practice group.
- Provided strategic planning advisory services to leading international publishing company on training and education products and services.
- Provided business development advisory services to leading west coast law firm.
Education and Professional Association Memberships:
- Juris Doctorate
- Masters Degree, Law Firm Management
- Yellow Belt, Lean Legal
- Member, California Bar Association
- Member, College of Law Practice Management
For more information regarding this candidate or other candidates with similar qualifications, please contact jobs@davidsongroup.com.
Candidate #5709 – Senior Director, eDiscovery/Managed Document Review – Bi-Coastal
Relevant Experience:
Accomplished eDiscovery and Document Review Director with extensive experience in building professional and highly regarded departments. Led pioneering eDiscovery initiatives at major law firms and was instrumental in building the eDiscovery practices of two leading eDiscovery and document review firms in New York. Clear and consistent record of recruiting and managing talented and highly motivated teams with the perfect mix of professional and technical skills, guiding the setup and progress of major document review projects under tight deadlines, and building and managing relationships with providers of technology services and technical/legal staff.
Accomplishments:
- Assisted clients with data retention policies, responses to information requests from opposing counsel/ government entities and ECA strategies.
- Focused on second requests and have built extensive experience with and understanding of DoJ, SEC and FTC matters.
- Supported the creation of document review protocols, including privilege logging. Also, experienced with predictive coding/computer assisted review.
- Gained direct experience in evaluating and selecting appropriate and cutting-edge technologies and vendors.
- Became successful in the areas of business development and client management – firm’s revenue has tripled over the last four years.
- Obtained administrative skill level with the following tools: Clearwell, Concordance, Documatrix, Equivio, Nuix, Relativity and Ringtail.
- Led the process to secure the firm’s Safe Harbor and ISO 27001 certifications.
For more information regarding this candidate or other candidates with similar qualifications, please contact jobs@davidsongroup.com.
