Lori A.
Maryscuk

Assisted in supervising, managing, and training more than 16 attorneys in a review of over 500,000 documents for a medical device manufacturer in response to a governmental investigation.

Assisted in managing a document review and drafting privilege logs in response to civil and criminal DOJ investigations involving a university hospital system. 

Participated in the review and analysis of documents and the drafting of privilege log entries for a major international financial institution in response to informational and investigative requests from various U.S. authorities, including the DOJ, the SEC, the Federal Reserve, the Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations (“PSI”), and the New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”).

Assisted in supervising and managing more than 20 attorneys in a privilege review of over 100,000 documents for a major international financial institution in responding to requests from a Monitor appointed by the New York Department of Financial Services and drafting a privilege log for the documents withheld or redacted from the production.

Successfully defended a pharmaceutical client against a challenge to privilege assertions made on 1,000 documents, including directing the preparation of the documents for in-camera review by court and providing assistance to local counsel at court hearing.   The Court upheld the privilege assertions on the majority of the documents at issue at the hearing.

Managed more than 10 attorneys and 5 support staff in connection with the drafting of privilege log entries, reviewing documents for privilege, redacting documents for privilege and maintaining records of privilege and redacted documents for a pharmaceutical client.  Developed a master privilege log of more than 14,000 entries for a pharmaceutical client involved in multi-jurisdictional litigation. The master log served as a foundation for quickly and efficiently developing privilege logs for individual matters and as a searchable index for privileged documents for a document depository.  

Drafted affidavits for client witnesses, prepared briefs, and performed legal research regarding attorney-client and work product privilege issues in defense of privilege challenges for a pharmaceutical client. 

Supervised more than 25 attorneys in connection with the preparation of a privilege log of more than 13,000 documents for a pharmaceutical client in defense of a product liability action.

Litigation Technology Experience

Due to Ms. Maryscuk’s involvement in these projects, she has experience creating project plans and developing protocols for objective coding, imaging, scanning and privilege logs.  Ms. Maryscuk has extensive knowledge and experience of document review and litigation support systems including Relativity, FTI’s Ringtail, Case Central, Ernst & Young’s Tree, Concordance, IPro and Microsoft Access.