Assistant Real Estate

STEVEN H. SCHMELKIN

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EXPERIENCE

Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP Albany, NY/New York, NY

Supervising Staff Attorney January 2005 - present

. Counsel clients, corporate legal departments, and expert consultant teams

in early case assessment, litigation analytics and ESI collection,

preliminary document investigation, e-discovery best practice

development, and trial strategy implementation.

. Manage data preservation, legal holds, and regulatory compliance e-

document collection for American Express in connection with its present

global merchant discount rate litigations.

. Supervise teams of onshore and offshore attorneys in responsiveness and

privileged document reviews.

. Prepare e-discovery budgets, vendor selection plans, and quality

measurement systems to ensure continued expansion of firm's Staff

Attorney program, which has enjoyed 500% revenue growth.

. Train and orient legal research teams and trial attorneys on use of

litigation document platforms including Relativity, Concordance, Zantaz,

Xerox, Autonomy, Stratify, Cataphora, Summation, and Attenex.

. Develop and execute attorney recruiting programs; screen, interview,

hire, and coach Staff Attorney review teams and paralegal and secretarial

support staff.

Breadbar Garfield & Schmelkin New York, NY

Law Clerk, Associate, and Counsel May 1997 - August 2002

. Instituted and executed law practice data management software, attorney

compliance systems, and legal research platforms.

. Presided over civil practice at specialized litigation boutique, with an

emphasis on product liability, insurance coverage, toxic tort, and

employment discrimination matters.

EDUCATION

Tulane University, Freeman School of Business New Orleans, LA

Master of Business Administration May 2004

. Morton A. Aldrich Fellow & merit-based full tuition scholarship award

. General Motors/Chevrolet market research internship program

. Lecturer - "Technology & Ethics" and "Business Ethics and The Honor Code"

seminars

. Tulane Honor Code Board - Elected MBA Representative & Board Chair

New York University School of Law New York, NY

Juris Doctor May 1997

. NYU Law Alumni Task Force

. Dean's Roundtable and Real Estate Roundtable forum member

. Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies

Cornell University Ithaca, NY

Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations May 1994

. Dean's List (every semester) & Commencement Flag Bearer (Top 3% GPA

Honor)

. Teaching Assistant & Research Associate, Department of Organizational

Behavior - developed curriculum for graduate level coursework on the

birth of modern investment banking

. Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics - moderated seminar on

applied microeconomic theory and the labor managed economy

BAR ADMISSIONS

. New York, 1998; New Jersey, 1998; United States District Court, S.D.N.Y.

and E.D.N.Y., 1998

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