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Eric Smedley joined King & Spalding in 2000 as an attorney with the Mass Tort and Toxic Tort and Environmental practice.  His practice focuses on managing large-scale document productions, including electronic discovery issues, with an emphasis on representing pharmaceutical clients in mass tort litigation. Eric is a senior member King & Spalding’s E-Discovery Center.

 

Credentials

J.D., Duquesne University

B.A., Catholic University of America

Georgia

Pennsylvania

Matters

Supervising a core team of Discovery Center attorneys and paralegals for document production, privilege log, deposition/trial testimony preparation and defensive needs activities in connection with King & Spalding's role as national discovery counsel in product liability and consumer fraud matters for a Fortune 50 pharmaceutical client.

Managing large scale document collections (both hard copy and electronic) totaling over 900,000 documents (18,000,000 pages) in connection with product liability and consumer fraud litigation for a Fortune 50 pharmaceutical client.

Assisting in formulating document processing specifications used by vendors in connection with electronic and hard copy document collections.

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Supervising a core team of Discovery Center attorneys and paralegals for document production, privilege log, deposition/trial testimony preparation and defensive needs activities in connection with King & Spalding's role as national discovery counsel in product liability and consumer fraud matters for a Fortune 50 pharmaceutical client.

Managing large scale document collections (both hard copy and electronic) totaling over 900,000 documents (18,000,000 pages) in connection with product liability and consumer fraud litigation for a Fortune 50 pharmaceutical client.

Assisting in formulating document processing specifications used by vendors in connection with electronic and hard copy document collections.

Managing a document database platform vendor and other electronic processing vendors used in connection with on-going document collection and electronic document reviews for a Fortune 50 pharmaceutical client.

Monitoring outsourced litigation support personnel for a pharmaceutical client in product liability and consumer fraud litigation.

  • Supervising an electronic production of over 33,000 documents requiring significant image redactions which was completed in 12 weeks.

From 2000-2004, being a member of a Discovery Team responsible for coordinating and drafting responses to discovery requests in tobacco products liability litigation in connection with King & Spalding's role as national discovery counsel for a tobacco products manufacturer.

Litigation Technology Experience

Supervising and training attorney review teams and collecting, reviewing and producing documents.  Due to Eric's involvement in these projects, he has experience coordinating and supervising the selection of vendors.  He also has experience creating project plans and developing protocols for objective coding, imaging, scanning and printing. Eric has extensive knowledge and experience of document review and litigation support systems including Relativity, Ringtail, Summation iBlaze, Discovery Radar, Concordance, IPro, and Microsoft Access

Matters

Supervising a core team of Discovery Center attorneys and paralegals for document production, privilege log, deposition/trial testimony preparation and defensive needs activities in connection with King & Spalding's role as national discovery counsel in product liability and consumer fraud matters for a Fortune 50 pharmaceutical client.

Managing large scale document collections (both hard copy and electronic) totaling over 900,000 documents (18,000,000 pages) in connection with product liability and consumer fraud litigation for a Fortune 50 pharmaceutical client.

Assisting in formulating document processing specifications used by vendors in connection with electronic and hard copy document collections.

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Matters

Supervising a core team of Discovery Center attorneys and paralegals for document production, privilege log, deposition/trial testimony preparation and defensive needs activities in connection with King & Spalding's role as national discovery counsel in product liability and consumer fraud matters for a Fortune 50 pharmaceutical client.

Managing large scale document collections (both hard copy and electronic) totaling over 900,000 documents (18,000,000 pages) in connection with product liability and consumer fraud litigation for a Fortune 50 pharmaceutical client.

Assisting in formulating document processing specifications used by vendors in connection with electronic and hard copy document collections.

Managing a document database platform vendor and other electronic processing vendors used in connection with on-going document collection and electronic document reviews for a Fortune 50 pharmaceutical client.

Monitoring outsourced litigation support personnel for a pharmaceutical client in product liability and consumer fraud litigation.

  • Supervising an electronic production of over 33,000 documents requiring significant image redactions which was completed in 12 weeks.

From 2000-2004, being a member of a Discovery Team responsible for coordinating and drafting responses to discovery requests in tobacco products liability litigation in connection with King & Spalding's role as national discovery counsel for a tobacco products manufacturer.

Litigation Technology Experience

Supervising and training attorney review teams and collecting, reviewing and producing documents.  Due to Eric's involvement in these projects, he has experience coordinating and supervising the selection of vendors.  He also has experience creating project plans and developing protocols for objective coding, imaging, scanning and printing. Eric has extensive knowledge and experience of document review and litigation support systems including Relativity, Ringtail, Summation iBlaze, Discovery Radar, Concordance, IPro, and Microsoft Access

Credentials

J.D., Duquesne University

B.A., Catholic University of America

Georgia

Pennsylvania