Document Review Associate Attorney

Melissa Lynch Freeman

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Phone: 703-***-****

King George, Virginia 22485

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Education

University of Baltimore School of Law

2011

Law

Juris Doctorate

Baltimore, Maryland

I passed the Virginia Bar on the first attempt in February, 2012.

University of South Florida

2004

Criminology/Political Science/Minor in Spanish

Bachelor of Arts

Tampa, Florida

Graduated Summa Cum Laude National Honors Society (3.86 GPA)

Interned at both the Hillsborough County and Pinellas County Public Defender’s Offices

Experience

The Law Office of Miles Franklin January 2025 to present

Litigation Attorney

Associate Attorney representing clients in the following practice areas: criminal defense, divorce, custody, visitation, child support and estate probabte.

PLUSnxt December 2023 – December 2024

Attorney Document Review

Conducted various document review and privilege logging assignments for ongoing litigations for prominent law firms and cases. Relativity was used for those reviews.

Robert Half August 2023 to October 2023

Legal Editor

Temporary contract position working on the Artificial Intelligence feature offered by Lexis Nexis. Position involved complex legal research and analytical thinking in determining the appropriate response for the AI feature.

Epiq Global December 2022 to January 2023

Attorney Document Review

Conducted various document review assignments for ongoing litigations for prominent law firms and cases. Relativity was used for those reviews.

Hirenomics April 2022 to September 2022 Attorney Document Review

Conducted various document review assignments for ongoing litigations for prominent law firms and cases. Relativity and/or DISCO were platforms used for those reviews.

Melissa Lynch Freeman, Esq. September 2015 to November 2021

Sole-practitioner Attorney

King George, Virginia

I practiced criminal defense and family law litigation, as well as served as a Guardian ad Litem for children and incapacitated adults. All aspects of the roles allowed me to work with my clients, opposing counsel and/or prosecutors and other Court staff. During this time, I became proficient in legal research, document review, discovery, drafting of motions and agreements, trial preparation and litigation. Some cases were able to be settled through negotiations and others went to trial. I was in the Courtroom several days per week litigating cases.

Salvado, Salvado, Salvado, PC August 2012 to August 2015

Associate Attorney

Falls Church, Virginia

I was an Associate Attorney for a medium sized private law firm which specializes in criminal defense, family law and general civil litigation cases. I have practiced in seven jurisdictions throughout Northern Virginia emphasizing in: traffic, DUI, hit and run, assault and battery, drug possession, prostitution and larceny cases. I have also assisted in cases involving more serious offenses such as, murder, rape, kidnapping and aggravated sexual battery. I have experience writing varies court motions, appellate briefs and with litigating jury trials. As a criminal defense attorney I have core listening, analyzing and negotiating skills. My daily work, outside of litigation, was extensive legal research on the state and federal level, client and witness interviews, drafting of legal representation contracts and the preparation for the defense/representation of my clients.

CACI, Inc. – Commercial April 2011 to January 2013

Senior Paralegal Specialist

Washington, D.C.

I was a government contractor working at the United States Department of Justice in the Criminal Division, Fraud Section. I provided trial preparation and in court trial support for several matters within the demanding and high profile Fraud Section (to include a trial involving securities fraud). My duties included, but were not limited to, document, case file, and website maintenance and organization. I conducted legal research utilizing the legal search engines Westlaw and Lexis as part of trial preparation, and for drafting court motions and office memorandums. I am proficient searching and inputting data into Concordance, Relativity and ACTS case tracking databases. I worked with federal prosecutors and federal agents on a daily basis on my assigned case work. I communicated routinely with citizens, and drafted legal documents and responses to citizens' correspondence using the Fraud Section's proprietary Activator database. I have experience utilizing the computer program Sanction in the courtroom during trials for the admission and display of government exhibits.

The Coleman Group May 2009 to December 2010

Record Research Analyst

Greenbelt, Maryland

I was assigned to a government contract position at the United States Census Bureau. My duties included reviewing, confirming and adjudicating criminal history reports and providing general investigative case file support as part of employment background investigations for the Federal Government. I maintained a working knowledge of the requirements and processes for requesting criminal records for each state and where necessary, drafted pre-employment inquires regarding the arrest records for management review and approval. I performed supervisory adjudicative case reviews while adhering to the strict adjudication criteria of the Federal Government. I gained superior working knowledge of CHECPROD and Completions Programs. I successfully completed a Graduate School Course on Suitability Adjudication from the Office of Personal Management Staff

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