Rose Jones is King & Spalding’s Director of e-Discovery Project Management and Client Services. Her practice focuses on e-discovery management including the development of standard protocols for the various phases of the discovery process. She is a senior member of King & Spalding’s Discovery Center and acts as National Discovery Counsel for large corporations. Ms. Jones provides advice and counsel prior to beginning document review to limit the scope and cost of the document review, including protocols/best practices and vendor selection and contract negotiations, as well as early case assessment, key word development and validation. She works closely with vendors to ensure the consistency and quality of the document review process and work product by developing customized work flow and document organization. Using standard privilege review and logging protocols, Ms. Jones manages the preparation of defensible and cost-effective privilege logs.
Ms. Jones has experience over the entire spectrum of the e-discovery process, from document collection to the defense of privilege logs, and all steps in between. She has managed the e-discovery process in a wide variety of matters, including pharmaceutical, environmental, product liability, mass tort, and intellectual property litigation, as well as various internal investigations and governmental investigations, including Congressional Committees, the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), various State Attorneys General, the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), United States Department of Justice (US DOJ), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
Publications: “Sanctions for E-Discovery Violations: By the Numbers,” co-author with Dan H. Willoughby, Jr. and Gregory R. Antine, Duke Law Journal, Volume 60, Number 3 (December 2010), surveying 400 federal court opinions involving motions for sanctions relating to the discovery of electronically stored information and analyzed for date, court, type of case, sanctioning authority, sanctioned party, sanctioned misconduct, sanction type, sanctions to counsel and protections provided by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(e). The article was cited by Magistrate Judge Grimm in Victor Stanley, Inc. v. Creative Pipe, Inc., 250 FRD 251 (D. Md. 2010) as evidence of the lack of uniform national standards governing theduty to preserve potentially relevant evidence, the level of culpability needed to justify sanctions, and the appropriate sanctions for varying levels of misconduct.
Litigation Technology Experience
Supervising and training attorney review teams and collecting, reviewing and producing documents. Due to Ms. Jones’ involvement in these projects, she has experience coordinating and supervising the selection of vendors. She also has experience creating project plans and developing protocols for objective coding, imaging, scanning and printing. Ms. Jones has extensive knowledge and experience of document review and litigation support systems including Relativity, TCDI’s Clarvergence, Kroll’s OnTrack Inview, Summation iBlaze, FTI’s Ringtail, IConect, CaseMap, Concordance, IPro and Microsoft Access.
Ms. Jones received her J.D. degree from Georgia State College of Law in 2002. She graduated, with honors, from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999 with a B.S. degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering. Ms. Jones is admitted to practice in Georgia and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She is a member of the State Bar of Georgia. Ms. Jones received the Pro Bono Service Award in 2006.
