Manuel García

Senior Discovery Attorney

New York
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Overview

Manuel García’s work as a discovery attorney has encompassed a wide range of practice areas and industries in both English and Spanish for more than 10 years. He provides project management and supervision of managed review vendors and has led a staff attorney team of 15 and provided guidance and training remotely for both. He collaborates with clients, other outside counsel and managed review vendors to prepare document review protocols and coordinate effective review procedures and processes to cost effectively meet discovery demands.

He has notable experience responding to Department of Justice civil investigative demand documents regarding large mergers and developing efficient and cost-effective workflows for document reviews. Manuel has additional experience assisting and managing document review teams through quality control procedures, redaction of large and confidential documents and working with in-house discovery teams.

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  • Managed teams of staff attorneys and managed review vendors in providing fast-paced document productions to promote settlement negotiation in class-action lawsuits related to educational institutions.
  • Established ongoing review and production procedures to promote defensible document productions and privilege logging across various jurisdictions related to opioid litigation matters.
  • Co-managed team responding to DOJ CID document requests for a healthcare services merger, developing and implementing a multifaceted quality control review to ensure accuracy, consistency and defensibility of privilege review.
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Experience

  • Managed teams of staff attorneys and managed review vendors in providing fast-paced document productions to promote settlement negotiation in class-action lawsuits related to educational institutions.
  • Established ongoing review and production procedures to promote defensible document productions and privilege logging across various jurisdictions related to opioid litigation matters.
  • Co-managed team responding to DOJ CID document requests for a healthcare services merger, developing and implementing a multifaceted quality control review to ensure accuracy, consistency and defensibility of privilege review.
  • Managed quality control for a large-scale document review in connection with complex litigation arising from the collapse of the residential real estate lending market, working with e-discovery team vendor to meet production deadlines.
  • Assisted team with responses to DOJ CID documents request regarding a proposed telecom merger, notably managing the workflows for the redaction of twenty thousand documents.
  • Educated contract attorney teams on review schedules and protocols, advanced platform technologies and other related topics.

Recognitions and Memberships

Memberships

  • Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS)

Prior Positions

  • The Honorable Doris Ling-Cohan, Supreme Court of New York: Intern

Admissions

  • New York

Education

  • LL.M., New York Law School, 2011
  • J.D., New York Law School, 2008
  • B.A., City University of New York, 2004, cum laude