Christine D. S.

About Christine D. S.

I chose eDiscovery as my career because I respect justice, enjoy solving puzzles, and am commited to helping others. I worked as a paralegal and an administrator in firms of all sizes, and developed extensive experience in different fields of law, legal operations and business processes. I embrace technology to optimize communication, streamline workflows, prioritize tasks, and manage cases. I revel in using tech to organize large, complex cases into more feasible, workable parts. I relish collaborating with case teams, service providers, and clients in-person and remotely across different time zones and locations using all available forms of communication.That tech know-how and legal training led me to legal project management, eDiscovery, and litigation support. I use project management methods to implement standardized eDiscovery processes repeatable and documented for defensibility, proportional for each matter, estimate budgets, and manage deadlines. I still utilize my paralegal skill sets when consulting with case teams throughout a matter\'s litigation lifecycle as the eDiscovery subject matter expert. I use tools such as Relativity, Nuix, Disco, Everchron, Opus 2, Trial Director, TrialPad, OnCue, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, or PowerPoint.I am dedicated to advancing my career to lead teams in litigation support and legal project management. I aim for my education, formal training, and industry-recognized certifications to complement my work experience. I believe in metrics-focused processes and data-based decisions. While I enjoy collaborating in-person, I appreciate that tech allows me to join forces with others in other locations. I have presented at numerous conferences and CLE sessions on litigation support, trial technology, and legal project management. Although I earned several degrees, certifications, and advanced credentials, I continue to focus on learning about eDiscovery and legal operations because technology always evolves. I believe in lifelong learning and always search for opportunities to build and strengthen my technical and soft skill sets. I am currently pursuing additional technology certifications and other credentials in project management, legal operations, and business leadership.

Experience

1. Practice Technology Project Manager

   Latham & Watkins

   Mar 2021 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

   Manage the eDiscovery and technology requirements of multiple litigation and investigation matters by consulting with case teams and clients across various time zones and locations to guide and be the subject matter expert on best practices for the collection, review, and production of electronically stored information; provide recommendations for case management and meet-and-confer conferences, and other production specification discussions; act as primary liaison among case team, client, and analyst/operations team and/or vendors, to document instructions, manage timelines, and ensure proper communications between the parties so case teams’ needs are understood, potential issues identified, expectations managed; advise case teams and clients on vendor selection and technology options by analyzing vendor estimates, creating cost comparisons, estimating discovery costs, and preparing budgets; create processing and production specifications for vendors or the analyst team and perform quality analysis of deliverables; maintain accurate logs of ESI handled throughout all phases of EDRM; design workspaces and workflows and train legal teams to ensure efficient document review; analyze data by filtering and culling, keyword searches, near textual duplication, email threading, concept searching, clustering and categorization; manage document review, deposition preparations, and trial preparation; create production logs and privilege logs; maintain working knowledge of review tools such as Relativity, Eclipse, ViewPoint, Axcelerate, Insight, Disco, and Nuix, and case analysis tools such as Opus2, Everchron, Case Notebook, CaseMap, West Case Timeline; stay apprised of case law developments; assist the review and revision of standard template documents used by the team, marketing the services of the team through writing internal publications and delivering presentations to internal legal teams, and assist with other projects as assigned by team leadership.

Education

• UC San Diego Extended Studies

  Professional Certificate, Intellectual Property Law

  2007 — 2008

• West Hills College Lemoore

  Associates of Science & Associates of Arts, Administration of Justice & Psychology

  2005 — 2006

• San Diego College of Continuing Education

  Certificate, Project Management

  2014 — 2015

• University of California, Irvine Division of Continuing Education

  ACEDS Fellow, ACEDS E-Discovery Program

  2015 — 2015

• SDSU Global Campus

  Professional Certificate, Management and Leadership

• UC San Diego Extended Studies

  Specialized Certificate, Litigation Technology Management

  2015 — 2016

• UC San Diego

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science

  1992 — 1995

• University of San Diego

  Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, ABA-Approved Paralegal Program, General Studies

  1995 — 1995

• Electronic Discovery Institute

  Discovery Practice Certificate, EDiscovery; Law and Technology

  2016 — 2017

Skills

• Legal Discovery
• Depositions
• Microsoft Word
• Legal Writing
• Litigation
• Family Law
• Courts
• Abacus Law
• Quickbooks
• Document Drafting
• Legal Research
• Abacus
• Supervisory Skills
• Motions
• Outlook
• Trial Exhibits
• Paralegals
• Lexisnexis
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Trialdirector
• Microsoft Outlook
• Office Management
• Estate Planning
• Trademarks
• Hearings
• Document Review
• Relativity
• Trials
• Legal Assistance
• Lexis
• Notary Public
• Property Law
• Litigation Support
• Wills
• Legal Issues
• Torts
• Legal Document Preparation
• Pacer
• Legal Research Skills