Dooley, Joseph M.

Laura Donovan is a staff attorney in the firm’s Litigation/Controversy Department. She joined the firm in 2011.

Practice

Ms. Donovan focuses her practice on issues of e-discovery. Specifically, she works with other attorneys, litigation technology project managers, and paralegals on teams that manage electronic and other documents in large cases and investigations. Attorneys on these teams take a leadership role in the document control process, systematically tracking documents from preservation to collection and through review and production. They work with e-discovery vendors and their review and analytical tools; review documents; train and oversee other firm and contract attorneys who review documents; and partner with project managers to perform production quality control.

Past Experience

Ms. Donovan has experience in all aspects of civil litigation in federal and state courts, including arguing pre-trial motions, responding to discovery requests and drafting pleadings and motions. She has also performed Spanish language document review to identify potentially privileged and responsive documents relating to a government investigation under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In addition, she has drafted pleadings and motions in an interpleader action filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

While in law school, Ms. Donovan was a research fellow for the research and writing program. In 2007, she held a legal internship with the Department of the Interior, Division of Indian Affairs in Washington DC.