Plante Moran Projectemps n/k/a Legalpeople, Chicago, Illinois
ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT REVIEW ATTORNEY (10/11-10/17)
• Review and analyze documents (emails, spreadsheets, presentations, reports) for relevant and legally privileged content and protected personal information prior to production to opposing party in litigation or internal investigations.
• Perform quality control review on work produced by other attorney-reviewers and create statistical reports on error rates.
• Lead teams of document reviewers, provide instruction on review techniques, and coach attorneys with high error rates on improvement strategies.
• Perform targeted database searches to locate documents addressing specific issues in litigation and write narrative reports to management/clients regarding factual support developed during reviews for legal contentions.
• Work with management and clients to refine protocols/procedures for document reviews.
• Review subject matter included pharmaceutical, medical device, ERP software implementation, and FTC-DOJ merger clearance.
McGeehan Technology Law, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois
SOLO PRACTITIONER (9/08-7/16)
• Gather facts through client and third-party interviews and Internet research.
• Analyze complex factual situations and devise legal strategies to address accusations of intellectual property infringement by clients.
• Draft legal pleadings for courts and administrative agencies in trademark and copyright matters.
• Proofread documents and verify factual and legal citations for format and substance.
Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois
ASSOCIATE (9/02-7/08)
• Draft legal opinions regarding patent validity, infringement, and design-arounds; copyright anticircumvention and reverse engineering; and intellectual property (IP) antitrust matters.
• Create presentations for clients and bar association groups on current legal issues.
• Review and edit communications for corporate clients.
• Draft reports to clients regarding IP portfolios.