McGlinchey, Kathryn Durham

Stephen McDermott is a senior staff attorney in the firm's Securities Department, and a member of the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practice Group. He joined the firm in 2006.

Practice

Mr. McDermott focuses his practice on issues of e-discovery. Specifically, he 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.

Mr. McDermott has direct experience with project and database management, privilege review, and privilege log creation on SEC and FTC investigations.