Scott uses his experience as a government prosecutor and civil litigator to assist in performing high level review and privilege analysis, and in witness and deposition preparation.

Overview
Representative Matters

Scott utilizes his background in technology and law to assist review teams in conducting higher level document review and analysis. Scott oversees review team members, supervising project attorneys, and ensures substantive document review is carried out in a manner consistent with the directives of the case team within the deadlines required. Scott leverages his knowledge of the facts and documents of a case to assist case teams throughout the life cycle of the case, including developing privilege logs, chronologies, and deposition preparation materials. Scott 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 Scott 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 ensure responsive documents are properly coded and produced and to avoid the inadvertent production of privileged or nonresponsive.
  • Serving as a 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.
  • Trained databases using Technology Assisted Review (TAR) in a large construction case in order to allow documents to be automatically sorted into potentially responsive and not responsive documents.
  • Created initial timeline analysis for project managers in a lengthy and large-scale insurance coverage dispute.
  • Performed high level privilege and quality control review for various clients in the financial services, health care, insurance, and construction industries.

Scott utilizes his background in technology and law to assist review teams in conducting higher level document review and analysis. Scott oversees review team members, supervising project attorneys, and ensures substantive document review is carried out in a manner consistent with the directives of the case team within the deadlines required. Scott leverages his knowledge of the facts and documents of a case to assist case teams throughout the life cycle of the case, including developing privilege logs, chronologies, and deposition preparation materials. Scott 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 Scott 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 ensure responsive documents are properly coded and produced and to avoid the inadvertent production of privileged or nonresponsive.
  • Serving as a 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.
  • Trained databases using Technology Assisted Review (TAR) in a large construction case in order to allow documents to be automatically sorted into potentially responsive and not responsive documents.
  • Created initial timeline analysis for project managers in a lengthy and large-scale insurance coverage dispute.
  • Performed high level privilege and quality control review for various clients in the financial services, health care, insurance, and construction industries.

Top areas of focus

Education

  • Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology, J.D., 2006
  • Grinnell College, B.A., 2001

Bar Admissions

  • Georgia
  • Illinois (Inactive)