Manager Quality Control

SHELLEY BROWN, ESQ.

**** ****** ** *********, ** 28204

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ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY MANAGER - ATTORNEY

Innovative electronic discovery practice manager with the ability to apply

both technical know-how and strategic legal thinking, delivers superior

solutions for all aspects of the electronic discovery process. Implements

defensible review strategies and processes and documentation to promote

efficiency and predictability while decreasing risks. Employs

groundbreaking uses for existing technology through developing search

queries that trigger not only what is needed but what should be excluded.

Manages and motivates large teams of attorneys, project managers and

litigation support staff. As an attorney with electronic discovery

expertise, communicates at a high level with in-house counsel and

consultant attorneys to provide exceptional, cost- and time-saving

strategic solutions. Admitted to the Bar in the State of New Jersey.

CORE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

. E-Discovery

. Litigation

. Legal Consulting

. Search Technology

. Vendor Relationships

. Discovery Tool Training

. Workflow Design

. Document Review Management

. Process Innovation

. Risk Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Discovery Practice Manager 2007 - Present

DiscoverReady, LLC, Manhattan, NY

Manage end-to-end electronic discovery process for Fortune 100 companies

with specific expertise in intellectual property and financial services

practice areas. Design and implement customized electronic discovery

solutions tailored to client's specific needs. Advise clients on use of

cutting-edge search and automated review technologies. Draft review

protocols, train and manage multiple teams of over 100 attorneys conducting

substantive review on several simultaneous matters.

. managed the first innovative review processes involving

DiscoverReady's groundbreaking automated review software designed

to use review decisions made by attorneys and use new technology to

propagate those decisions to similar documents, achieving more than

90% accuracy and several hundred hours of attorney review time.

. Successful creation and implementation of an electronic decision

log designed to track communications between counsel and attorneys

conducting electronic review and draw bright-lines rules to be

implemented in order to increase efficiency and accuracy and

improve costs.

. Established and promoted a thriving presence in a new market from

the ground up. Hiring and training more than 150 lawyers who now

make up the largest and most successful office in the company.

Discovery Attorney

Labaton, Sucharow LLP, Manhattan, NY 2006 - 2007

Member of the discovery practice leadership team involved in electronic

review of data pertaining to large-scale plaintiff's securities class

action litigation. Hi-level liaison between discovery attorneys, firm

leadership and e-discovery vendors, to ensure that the goals of each were

met and that the proper technologies were utilized in order to meet those

goals in the most cost-efficient manner.

. conducted discovery; reviewed, synthesized and categorized tens of

thousands of pages of documents during discovery and managed,

supervised and directed work of contract attorneys and paralegals.

. Implemented quality control processes designed to increase efficiency

and accuracy and to drive targeted timelines.

Attorney 2004 - 2006

Independent contractor for various New York City lawfirms

. Reviewed documents and files for responsiveness to discovery

requests

. Prepared responses to requests for documents, interrogatories, and

requests for admission

. Supervised staff members and assisted senior partners in creating

document queries and search terms for document review and e-

discovery projects

. Worked with various document review programs and software,

including Attenex, CT Summation, Concordance, iConnect, and

Sanction by Verdict Systems and others.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO COLLEGE OF LAW, Toledo, OH

Juris Doctor

Earned 2 "Book Awards" (highest grade in class) in the following

courses:

> "Trial Advocacy" - consisting of 2 complete mock trials

> "Legal History"

Rutgers University College of Law visiting student

OHIO UNIVERSITY, Athens, OH

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science/Pre-Law, English

ADMISSIONS AND AFFILIATIONS

Bar of the State of New Jersey

Women in E-Discovery

Phi Alpha Delta

New York City Lawyers Association

Hispanic National Bar Association

Board Member - Hudson County NJ Juvenile Conference Committee

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