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Electronic Discovery for Plaintiffs
Project Management - Advocacy - Shared Risk eDiscovery CoCounsel, pllc is an electronic discovery law firm for individual consumers and their counsel. We work with leading trial lawyers to bring unmatched discovery resources to their multi-district, mass tort, or single-event litigation matters. We provide two broad categories of services: Discovery Advocacy that advances and protects the Plaintiffs' discovery rights; and Legal Project Management that transforms large volumes of information into a powerful Order of Proof.
We Share Risk with Plaintiffs' counsel. In the appropriate case, the firm shares litigation risks with merits counsel utilizing fee structures that range between pure contingency, hybrid-contingency, or fixed rates for services. In addition to large scale litigation management, we craft economical solutions for small firms and single-event cases in need of Electronic Discovery and Evidence Management. |
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I need help with: Negotiating an ESI Protocol Order - Finding and Getting the Evidence I Need - Dealing with a Meritless Objection - Organizing and Analyzing my Electronic Evidence - Setting up a Document Review - Producing my Own Client's Electronic Evidence
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Our Practice Profile |
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Information Governance: A deep knowledge base of corporate Information Governance is where Electronic Discovery begins. We are full time students of the current and best practices by which corporations create, manage, and use information. We understand the technology used to search, identify, and retrieve responsive information from a wide variety of business sectors, including global pharmaceuticals, financial services, health care providers, industrial and consumer product manufacturers, transportation providers, and more.
Discovery Jurisprudence: We apply our legal and technology skills to advocate for individuals and small business owners. We document sources of responsive information and craft proportional discovery plans. We deconstruct meritless objections to discovery. We make digital evidence issues understandable to the trier of fact. |
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Legal Project Management as Craft: The skillful transition between large volumes of relevant information and a laser-focused Order of Proof is one of the most difficult - and underestimated - challenges facing contemporary trial teams. To do it well requires dedication to craft. Dedication requires dedicated people who love what they do.
Turning Information into Useful Evidence: Our final work product is the development of the evidence most important to your case, and shaping that evidence into a format that makes it useful and meaningful. We are proficient with best-in-breed legal technology platforms and advanced analytics. We design and execute seamless workflows that begin with your discovery plan and end with a documented Order of Proof. That's what Plaintiffs' lawyers need, and that's what we deliver. |
Our Attorneys
chad.roberts@edcclaw.com
305.240.5148
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Chad S. Roberts founded eDiscovery CoCounsel, pllc in 2013 after a successful twenty-year career as merits counsel representing consumers in complex litigation. Continuously AV rated since 1996, he holds an Engineering Science degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and graduated with high honors from the Florida State University College of Law. He has been a litigation partner at both a large, multi-national law firm (Holland & Knight, LLP) as well as a small boutique trial firm (Spohrer & Dodd, LLP) and has won multi-million dollar verdicts as lead trial counsel.
At eDiscovery CoCounsel, pllc he focuses on discovery motion practice in Federal Courts, Information Governance, Analytics, and Information Retrieval technology. He holds the CEDS designation from ACEDS and is a Relativity Certified Administrator (RCA). |
suzanne.clark@edcclaw.com
904.710.8194
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Suzanne H. Clark Suzanne H. Clark directs the Legal Project Management practice of eDiscovery CoCounsel, pllc. Suzanne graduated from the University of Florida College of Law and began her legal career as merits counsel in commercial litigation. She later transitioned to a full-time focus on Electronic Discovery and is a nationally recognized speaker and panelist in eDiscovery education.
Suzanne is a veteran of numerous document review projects, large and small, from a multi-year SEC investigation involving millions of documents in Relativity to her current practice where she concentrates on Plaintiff’s side eDiscovery, assisting merits counsel with evidence management in mass torts litigation as well as single-event cases for personal injury firms. She has earned the Mass-Tort MDL Certificate from the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke University School of Law. She is a frequent lecturer at legal Project Management educational events, including the annual University of Florida eDiscovery Conference, as well as numerous others. Suzanne is an Associate Professor at Samford University, Cumberland School of Law, where she teaches ESI I: Introduction to E-Discovery and ESI II: Discovery to students earning their degree in Master of Studies of Law. Suzanne holds the Certified Electronic Discovery Specialist (CEDS) designation of ACEDS, a certification requiring a rigorous peer-reviewed examination in information technology, Project Management fundamentals, evidence management technology, and discovery jurisprudence. She is also a Relativity Certified User (RCU). Suzanne co-founded the regional chapter of ACEDS which was later recognized as national Chapter of the Year for its vibrancy and outreach. She served as president of ACEDS Jacksonville for two years and remains an active member of the board. She also sits on the Global Advisory Council 2020 of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). |
Jason.Short@edcclaw.com
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Jason Short knows exactly how to connect front-line trial lawyers to the most important facts buried in their large evidence collections. Jason brings a depth of complex commercial litigation experience and private sector business practice to EDCC’s evidence management team. A veteran of the financial services sector prior to his law career, Jason has extensive first-chair trial experience in consumer transactions and consumer rights litigation. He brings this insight to EDCC’s document-intensive evidence management projects, and is a veteran of both large and small scale evidence management workflows. A graduate of California Western School of Law, Jason is proficient in state-of-the-art evidence search and review platforms, and is admitted to practice in California, Florida, and Washington. |
renee.belcastro@orderofproof.com
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Renee Belcastro is a dedicated, driven eDiscovery attorney focusing on in-depth document review and evidence management for the firm's Legal Project Management practice. A graduate, magna cum laude, of California Western School of Law, Renee offers extensive experience in the areas of business, real property, military, constitutional and contract law.
Her wide exposure to diverse practice areas provides Renee with the unique ability to effectively communicate with all trial lawyers and efficiently digest and process their evidence needs. Renee is comfortable utilizing a variety of state-of-the-art search and review platforms to drive an efficient and reliable review process. She is admitted to practice law in the State of California. |
giugi.carminati@orderofproof.com
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Dr. Maria-Vittoria “Giugi” Carminati, Esq., JSD, CEDS, CIPP/E, LPM is Director of Innovation and Practice Management. She is an agile-trained legal project manager and e-discovery specialist, focused on facilitating plaintiffs’ litigation, with a particular focus on civil rights and social justice cases. Giugi has been a litigator since 2008 and is licensed in California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Texas, and New York.
Giugi has tried cases in federal and state courts, including a multiparty RICO civil trial and a domestic abuse battery & assault case against a former spouse, where she successfully obtained a plaintiff’s verdict. Giugi has worked with a variety of e-discovery platforms (Goldfynch, Relativity, Disco, Concordance, and Reveal, to name a few) and is adept at finding solutions for all budgets and case sizes. She trains, consults, and teaches legal project management and e-discovery practices that can be implemented by firms of all sizes, ranging from solo practitioners and up through her Livable Law consulting and retreats. Giugi has ample experience as a plaintiff’s attorney, having spent several years litigating qui tam, personal injury, and civil rights cases in courts around the country. She is keenly aware of the ways in which resources among parties can impact litigation strategy and decisions. Giugi is passionate about leveling the playing field by implementing sound e-discovery and legal project management practices both within cases but also across law firms. As a Legal Project Manager and E-Discovery director herself, Giugi uses agile-based methodologies, including scrums, swamp outs, task matrices, and sprints—as appropriate—to let lawyers do the lawyering, while she manages the case and its resources. Whatever your case, practice group, or firm needs, Giugi will design a legal project management and e-discovery protocol that best suits your personnel, resources, and case demands. Giugi has also been a civil procedure adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center and named a Top 25 Female Faculty Member by the online CLE provider LawLine. She has published and spoken extensively on a variety of topics, including legal project management for plaintiff’s firms, and legal project management as a tool of diversity & equity among women and BIPOC attorneys. Finally, Giugi speaks four languages (French, English, Italian and Spanish) and is a PADI scuba instructor, as well as an Emergency First Responder instructor. She is somewhat nomadic but is generally based out of Aurora, CO, where her four children attend school. |
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Miami
701 Brickell Ave. Suite 1550 Miami, FL 33131 (by appointment) |
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Jacksonville
1200 Riverside Blvd. Jacksonville, FL 32207 |