Sims, David A

Patricia Hromada is a staff attorney in the firm's Litigation/Controversy Department. She joined the firm in 2004.

Practice

Ms. Hromada 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. Hromada has direct experience representing clients in regulatory investigations, internal corporate investigations and civil litigation. She has represented publicly traded companies and financial services firms with issues related to mutual fund market timing, late trading, revenue sharing, directed brokerage, transfer agency practices, initial public offering practices, corporate accounting practices and stock options. She also has direct experience with complex and sensitive privilege review, large-scale electronic document review and production.

Ms. Hromada also has been involved in social causes. As an intern for the Public Defender Corporation, she mostly represented juveniles in status hearings and explained the terms of probation with the juveniles and parents. While at the Department of Health & Human Resources, Ms. Hromada assisted people with applying for benefits, including food stamps, Medicaid, emergency assistance, heating assistance and medical transportation.