Meriwether, Luke

JoAnne McTiernan is a senior staff attorney in the firm's Litigation/Controversy Department. She joined the firm in 2006.

Practice

Ms. McTiernan 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.

Ms. McTiernan has direct experience with large scale government investigations, primarily involving pharmaceutical companies. She also has extensive experience with the review of documents for privilege and the preparation of privilege logs.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. McTiernan worked as a contract attorney on a number of large document and privilege reviews in response to investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission. She has also worked in litigation management.