Monica Wegner

As a senior attorney, Monica assists case teams and other Troutman eMerge attorneys and project managers with overseeing the document review and production process. She also conducts higher level document review and analysis. Monica frequently serves as a review team lead where she supervises project attorneys to ensure substantive document review is carried out consistently with the directives of the case team within the deadlines required. Monica leverages her knowledge of the facts and documents to assist case teams throughout the lifecycle of the case including preparing privilege logs, chronologies, and deposition preparation materials. Monica also conducts targeted searches to help identify key documents, inconsistencies in the review, or non-responsive categories of documents which can be excluded from the review process.

A few additional ways that Monica 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 non-responsive documents, as well as to ensure responsive documents are properly coded and produced.
• Serving as a 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.

Monica has in-depth experience managing teams of attorneys working on document reviews and deposition preparation for a diverse range of matters including: government investigations, intellectual property infringement claims, construction litigation, and business litigation.

Prior to focusing on eDiscovery, Monica practiced Disability Rights law, and has published case law in California. She utilizes this experience to provide client focused service, and to help case teams craft discovery plans uniquely tailored to fit the needs of each client and matter. In law school, Monica served as articles editor for the Hastings Business Law Journal.

• Conducted targeted searches, batched documents, and managed project attorney review teams of approximately 20 attorneys in various matters including SEC investigations, business torts, and patent infringement claims.
• Prepared deposition materials, and factual and legal memoranda, by synthesizing facts learned through review.
• Implemented creative workflows and analyzed complex documents to locate key information for production in various matters.
• Trained a statistical sample for a technology assisted review (TAR) in a financial services matter.
• Implemented predictive coding and advanced analytics while supervising project attorney team conducting responsiveness and privilege reviews for production in a fraud and business dispute matter for a credit reporting agency.