Smith, Blake

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

Practice

Ms. Slade 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.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Slade worked as an auditor reviewing previously litigated and settled asbestos exposure cases for information relating to insurance liability. In addition, Ms. Slade has worked as a freelance editor for Aspen Publishers where she contributed casenote legal briefs in the areas of evidence, criminal law and criminal procedure.

Community Involvement

After law school, Ms. Slade volunteered with the Committee for Public Counsel Services, where she researched and wrote motions dealing with a variety of evidentiary issues. She was also a coordinator with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program, assisting low-income members of the community in filing income tax forms.