Quality Control Private Equity

Daniel J. Sheill

Education

Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, Michigan

Juris Doctor January 2009

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Bachelors of Arts May 2004

Bar Admissions

Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois

Active and in Good Standing (6328634) May 2018

State Bar of Michigan

Active and in Good Standing (P73462) December 2009

Experience

Legal People

Review Attorney

April-September 2017; March-April 2018; September-October 2018; March-August 2019, November 2022-August 2023; May 2024-Present

Breach of contract action between two industrial steel makers for both relevance and privilege.

Breach of contract action concerning a private equity firm which sold plastics company and was later sued by buyer for alleged quality control problems. This review included extensive claw-back for privilege on both sides in addition to quality control work.

Patent prosecution case involving ad replacement technology. Third party production.

SEC investigation into whistleblower claim against private equity firm.

TransPerfect

Review Attorney

October-November 2020; December 2023-June 2024; September-December 2024

Private Equity matter involving contractual dispute between investors.

Class action in Canada against payday loan company for alleged consumer protection violations.

Consilio/Advanced Discovery

QC Reviewer/ Redactions Team

May 2015-June 2015; October-November 2016; August-September 2024

Privilege and redactions review concerning chapter 11 bankruptcy of an energy company.

First level review and redactions for two IP pharmaceutical cases concerning the FDA approval of generic versions of brand drugs.

Robert Half

Review Attorney

August 2024

Wrongful death case revolving around school bullying that allegedly caused the death of a student. Conducted searches in addition to review for relevance and privilege.

KLDiscovery, Chicago, Illinois

Review Attorney

November 2018-January 2019, August 2023-July 2024

Condominium law action involving suit against private equity firm who owned and managed resort hotel in Miami, Florida. Handled cleanup searches and random sampling of first-level review.

Large anti-trust investigation related to the healthcare industry, extensive involvement with HIPAA information and the privilege log.

Construction law case where general hired subcontractor and withheld payment due to costs directly attributable to mechanical failures caused by subcontractor.

LHH

Records Analyst

June-July 2023

This was a file transfer review where several departing attorneys from law firm were departing with clients. Objective was to withhold certain internal and administrative documents, such as docket sheets and billing information.

Epiq Global

Team Lead

June-July 2020, December 2020-March 2021, October-November 2022, March-May 2023

Washington State Attorney General's office issued a Civil Investigative Demand seeking documents and information in connection with an ongoing anti-trust investigations related to arthritis drug and merger of home hardware companies.

Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed airline manufacturer to determine whether their refusal to reimburse customers for recalled model fell under “excusable delay in governing contracts.

Hospital system case re: out-of-network billing practices. Handled quality control, end of day reports and the escalation log for questions and answers.

Role involved regular client-facing responsibilities regarding meeting notices, quality control, and project timelines.

HaystackID, Chicago, Illinois

Team Lead and Quality Control Review Attorney

April 2013–July 2015; April-July 2018; October-November 2018; March-October 2019; January-July 2020; February-March 2023

First level reviewer for both an alleged price gouging case concerning gasoline in the State of California as well as a patent infringement case concerning pacemakers.

Quality control reviewer for class action involving anti-competitive business practices relating to sale of generic diabetes drug.

SEC investigated client bank with respect to how the allocated client service fees.

Role involved regular client-facing responsibilities regarding meeting notices, quality control, decision log, and project timelines.

Level Legal

Review Attorney

February 2023

First-level responsive and privilege review of documents relating to a pending technology merger between software companies. Anti-trust concerns implicated the U.S. Justice Department.

Lexitas

Review Attorney

August-September 2022

First-level and privilege review for a construction case.

Lighthouse Global

Consultant, Research Modeling and Analysis

March 2021-August 2022

Review for responsive documents by leaving annotations based upon the relevant content.

Conducted batching, quality control, propagation, and machine learning runs on database, reconciled mismatches.

Beacon Hill, Chicago, Illinois

First-Level Reviewer

March 2016, November-December 2016; April 2017; August-October 2020

Redactions review concerning an asbestos claims and medical device matters.

Confidentiality and privilege review for a breach of contract action. Drafted category descriptions for privilege log.

Experienced with using Equivio threading on a construction law breach of contract case.

Inventus, Chicago, Illinois

Team Lead

July-September 2018; October 2019-January 2020

Assist project manager in managing team of 18 reviewers by conducting quality control review and answering questions from the floor in an eDiscovery privilege review.

Onsite at law firm for cases involving negligent transfer of healthcare insurance data and sale of defective luxury auto parts.

Axiom, Chicago, Illinois

Contract Analyst

July-October 2016; December 2016-April 2017; January-February 2019

Review and extraction of commercial real estate agreements pursuant to building a corporate database for a retail pending merger.

Review and extraction of commercial contracts for potential corporate spinoff, including redactions of sensitive/non-pertinent business information.

Identifying amendments to master agreements and linking them into a central database.

Kelly Services, Kalamazoo, Michigan

First-Level Reviewer

October-December 2017

Generic drug manufacturer sued by Justice Department for allegedly colluding with competitors to fix prices. Review for both relevance and privilege.

Hire Counsel, Chicago, Illinois

First-Level Reviewer

June-July 2016

First-level review of a patent pharmaceutical case.

Special Counsel, Chicago, Illinois

Quality Control Reviewer

February-May 2016

Anti-trust investigation of national health insurance association. Performed quality control and issued feedback to reviewers via email.

Clutch Group, Chicago, Illinois

First-Level Reviewer

October 2015-February 2016

First-level hard copy review for oil and gas matter concerning multinational company and Ohio State Attorney General’s office. Privilege log portion of review done electronically.

DTI Global, Chicago, Illinois

Team Lead

August–September 2015

Review involved class-action concerning lump sum pension payments for former employees of a life insurance company. Responsibilities included quality control and answering questions from the floor from the team.

Role involved regular client-facing responsibilities including attendance, quality control, and project timelines.

Review Platforms Used

Relativity, EDR, iPro, DART, Net Documents, Servient

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