Kasasira (Sas) Mwine, Esq., CEDS

Charlotte, NC ad24gw@r.postjobfree.com 980-***-****

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Attorney with twenty-five (25) years of experience advising clients and executing legal strategies, for every phase of the e-Discovery lifecycle, including preparing documents in response to requests for production (RFPs) as well as subpoenas, the preservation and collection of electronically stored data (ESI), review, production, and post-production processes. Expert level technical functionality with data analytics and database tools such as Relativity and BrainSpace. Verbal and written fluency in French. EXPERIENCE

AVP, Legal e-Discovery Specialist Wells Fargo Charlotte, NC Nov 2017 – November 2023 Overview of Responsibilities: As a member of the Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement, Investigations & Intellectual Property Division of Wells Fargo, role consists of coordinating with Senior Counsels, Case Teams, Lines of Business, technologies teams and outside counsels to execute complex litigation strategies for every phase of the e-Discovery lifecycle.

At the inception of a threat of litigation and/or an investigation, advise Counsels and Case Teams regarding the optimal legal strategies to mitigate potential risks and control costs, pursuant to Wells Fargo’s defined e-Discovery protocols, for a broad variety of commercial litigation, regulatory and employment matters;

Collaborate with the Case Teams to execute preservation strategies, including defining potential Custodians and the scope of potential ESI locations, executing legal holds, conducting custodian interviews and working with technical teams to ensure that the applicable ESI is adequately preserved;

Collaborate with the applicable Lines of Business, target custodians and technical teams to implement collection strategies factoring the mitigation of risks and controlling costs;

Prepare cost estimates for Counsels and the Case Team based on each of the prospective legal strategies, encompassing a breakdown of potential ESI volume as well as collection scope, technical ESI culling options and potential vendor engagement,

Assist in preparing the requisite documents to respond to RFPs, subpoenas, such as protective orders, e-Discovery Affidavits as well as declarations, e-Discovery motions and document review protocols;

Execute the documents to engage Wells Fargo’s preferred vendors for e-Discovery and manage every element of the workflow including assessing potential conflicts of interest on a matter basis, scope of services, and processing of invoices;

Engage Counsels, the Case Teams, Outside Counsels and vendors at every element of document review workflow from ensuring that the prescribed ESI culling strategies are implemented, training reviewers based on the Document Review protocols as well as Relativity templates, tracking review progress, to production and post-production processes;

Participate with the Wells Fargo e-Discovery team to evaluate protocols, conduct testing, research potential solutions and execute upgrades to processes; and

Follow up on CLE, ACEDS and other periodic training opportunities to consistently refine skill sets and keep pace with industry innovation, particularly in the area of e-Discovery analytics. e-Discovery Consultant T. Rowe Price Baltimore, MD May 2017- Nov 2017 (Contract Role/Robert Half Legal) Overview of Responsibilities: Provided legal, technical and consultative services pertaining to all aspects of e-Discovery from preservation, collection, and processing, to production of target data.

Advised Senior Attorneys on the optimal legal strategy and technical solutions to respond to litigation matters, regulatory requests and internal investigations;

Guided Counsels through the requirements, review procedures and protocols to produce Discovery, pursuant to numerous FINRA, SEC, CFPB, FTC, and DOJ litigation matters; and

Provided the e-Discovery team and Counsels with guidance to evaluate and develop templates, applications and best practices workflows.

Senior e-Discovery Project Manager Norton Rose Fulbright Washington D.C. Nov 2015 – April 2017 Overview of Responsibilities: Provided comprehensive e-discovery legal, technical and consultative services to legal teams and firm clients related to identification, preservation, collection, processing, review and production of client data in response to numerous commercial litigation and regulatory matters.

Prepared e-Discovery responses to a myriad of FDA, DOJ, SEC, FTC, and CFPB subpoenas

Coordinated with Counsels to represent several secured creditors in Commercial litigations to recover assets in Bankruptcy proceedings, assisting Counsels to prepare for 26(f) Conferences and spearhead the Discovery process

Leverage analytics in the litigation life cycle and substantially reduce litigation costs while mitigating risks;

Collaborated with Associates to prepare 30B(6) witnesses for the depositions and assisted with preparing responses as well as Discovery materials to respond to interrogatories;

Assisted Associates to prepare pleading and motions, protective orders and discovery objections; and

Developed templates, workflows and protocols for e-Discovery that were repeatable, defensible, and expedient as well as comported with best practices.

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e-Discovery Project Manager Consilio & Hire Counsel Washington D.C March 2015 – Nov 2015 Overview of Responsibilities: Managed complex large-scale document review projects using Relativity and RPM database analytics tools to prepare client data sets spanning millions of records and execute all pertinent levels of work flows. Staff Attorney Baker Botts, LLP Washington D.C. August 2007 – March 2015 Overview of Responsibilities: Managed the full life cycle of commercial litigation and regulatory matters from responding to subpoenas and RFPs to coordinating large-scale teams to collect, review and produce discovery across a wide variety of practice areas.

Prepared eDiscovery responses to a myriad of FCPA, DOJ, SEC, FTC, and CFPB subpoenas from early case assessment and preservation, to collection of data, review of data and running rolling productions;

Collaborated with Partners and Associates to manage dozens of commercial litigation matters that pertained to secured creditors pursuing causes of action to recover assets in Bankruptcy proceedings;

Assisted to prepare 26(f) Meet and confer responses to RFPs by preparing the litigation plan to collect and manage eDiscovery vendors to review and produce documents on a rolling basis;

Served as a Trainer and auditor for several Technology Assisted Review (TAR) and predictive coding modules to prioritize review of the ranked data sets and reduce review time tables and litigation costs to fractions of the budget benchmarks;

Managed the full litigation life cycle for a series of litigations, implementing the legal strategy for production of Discovery materials, on behalf of certain mutual funds against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pertaining to foreclosure proceedings; and

Coordinated the litigation process for preparing and submission of dozens of M&A matters before the FTC and DOJ, including preparing detailed materials that charted plans to dissolve and/or transfer assets per settlement agreements. Other Roles Included:

e-Discovery Team Lead Attorney Jan 2005 - Aug 2007 Mayer Brown LLP & Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, LLP through various staffing agencies Washington D.C. Staff Discovery Project Attorney April 1999- Feb 2001 Worked with firms such as: McGuireWoods LLP; Hogan & Hartson, LLP; McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP through various staffing agencies Washington D.C. Staff Attorney April 1999 – Feb 2001

Cole Raywid & Braverman, LLP

Drafted research based memoranda, comments and court motions for litigation and petition filings before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) and several Federal Circuit Courts;

Drafted service licenses and other periodic filings before the FCC, state regulatory bodies and local governments; Staff Attorney April 1998 – Feb 2001

National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD)

Covington & Burling, LLP

Drafted Registration Statements and periodic filings with the SEC as well as state regulatory bodies; and

Reviewed and prepared audit reports for the SEC as well as several Self-Regulatory Organizations. BAR MEMBERSHIP, EDUCATION, & LANGUAGE SKILLS

Member of the District of Columbia Bar

Eligible to waive into the North Carolina Bar

George Washington University Law School Juris Doctorate Class of 1998 Member of the Moot Court Board, Journal of International Law and Economics and Deans Fellow College of William and Mary Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy with a focus on Economics Class of 1995 Fluent in French- verbal and written

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Member of ACEDS & EDRM

Expert Level: Relativity, Viewpoint, Concordance, Ipro, Clearwell, Axcelerate - Recommind, Ringtail, Logikcull, Kroll-Ontrack, iCONECT, Catalyst, Omnix, Summation, and Case Central databases as well as an advanced administrator of Microsoft Office Suite, CasePoint, CaseMap, Nuix and TimeMap software;

Loaded collected discovery data and executed custom queries and SQL scripts to process and manage batch files across multiple database platforms; and

Conducted searches and culled data with tools such as Oracle, LexisNexis (LAW) and Trial Director.

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