Christopher T. Granade

As a senior attorney, Chris assists case teams and Troutman eMerge attorney and project managers with overseeing the document review and production process. He also conducts higher-level document review and analysis. Chris frequently serves as a review team lead, supervising project attorneys to ensure substantive document review is carried out in a manner that is consistent with the directives of the case team within the deadlines required. Chris leverages his knowledge of the facts and documents to assist case teams throughout the life cycle of the case, including by developing privilege logs, chronologies, and deposition preparation materials. Chris also conducts targeted searches to help identify key documents, inconsistencies in the review, or nonresponsive categories of documents that can be excluded from the review process.

Other ways in which Chris helps improve document review quality while containing costs include:

• Performing quality-control reviews of project attorney document review sets and providing feedback and additional training as needed to avoid the inadvertent production of privileged or nonresponsive documents, as well as to ensure responsive documents are properly coded and produced.
• Serving as key liaison between the case team and the review team to ensure the reviewers are properly trained on the unique issues of the case and that they are receiving the information needed to conduct their work efficiently and accurately.
• Working with case teams to identify the scope of review and criteria for production, including coding of documents for privilege, key issues, and/or confidentiality.
• Providing feedback to the case team and client regarding the progress of the review.
• Developing review workflows that reduce the time necessary to move documents through various review phases.

• In defense of a class action alleging false advertising and failure to warn, used advanced database searching and analytics to identify and analyze key evidence from disparate sources; performed quality control review and monitored performance metrics of the review team.
• Identified and implemented a strategy to assist the client in locating relevant information in response to discovery requests; crafted targeted searches in the document database to ensure privilege protections; and performed quality control of reviewed documents in a complex corporate shareholder action.
• Conducted targeted searches and managed the project attorney team’s evaluation of contracts, policies and procedures for the internal audit of a multinational pharmaceutical conglomerate, advising the client regarding compliance with SEC/Sarbanes-Oxley and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act regulations.