Anthony Torres
Roselle Park,NJ
Summary
Seventeen years of extensive experience in the Legal Technology/Litigation Support Industry at prestigious New York law firms and Johnson & Johnson. Performed an array of tasks related to supporting attorneys in managing large-scale litigation, implementing databases for managing, sorting, indexing and abstracting large volumes of data produced in litigation.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Litigation Support
Johnson & Johnson
01.2023 - 01.2025
- Identified data elements in legal documents and entered them into the matter management system
- Scanned documents and catalogued them for retrieval
- Worked with highly confidential legal documents
- Proofread entered matters for quality control
- Sent legal documents to outside counsel as appropriate; followed up with OC and paralegals as needed
- Processed incoming litigation (electronic and hand served) as assigned, including mass tort litigation on the same day received, followed the established priority schedule
- Coordinated with other team members ensuring that various stages of processing were completed
Project Manager
UTU Inc.
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Was in charge of budgeting, coordinating, invoicing and managing all jobs
- Established project schedule and coordinated deadlines
- Oversaw the ordering of construction supplies and distribution to various job sites
- Maintained long-term client relationship and established new partnerships with vendors
- Managed all client appointments and correspondence
Final Media Specialist
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
01.2011 - 01.2019
- Applied knowledge of computer system principles and litigation support to develop solutions to user requirements
- Analyzed user document and data requirements and translated them into processing requests and specifications for data loading
- Assisted Attorneys in reviewing documents and provided technical expertise on forms of production
- Supported the development of workflow and procedures documents
- Assisted litigation staff in the use of litigation support software tools
- Analyzed electronic media to determine content and the most effective ways to process the media
- Ran and monitored data processing and performed quality control procedures on processed data
- Loaded converted data and TIFF images to Documatrix and Relativity databases
- OCR and index loaded TIFF images
- Exported production sets from Documatrix and Relativity then QC’d Bates ranges and confidentiality stamps
- Delivered final data onto encrypted CD or DVD, Hard drive or FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server as per requirement
Imaging Clerk, EDGAR Specialist
Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel LLP
01.2001 - 01.2009
- Kept attorneys in compliance with new SEC rules and regulations
- Converted, EDGARized, revised and filed forms 8-K, 10-Q, 10-K, 3, 4 and 5 with SEC
- Assisted attorneys with applying for SEC codes and inquiries regarding EDGAR filings
- Prepared, scanned, QC and OCR documents for importing into specialized databases
- Burned data CDs and DVDs and added labels per attorney requests
- Edited Trial and Deposition Transcripts using UltraEdit
- Scanned documents into databases using Doculex and Adobe Acrobat
- Assisted attorneys and paralegals with electronic court filings
- Trained new employees with coding programs and databases
- Trained and supervised new employees on all scanning procedures
- Outsourced cases to vendors for large-scale scanning and coding
- Burned large document production files on DVDs and CDs
- Reviewed and revised document production using Concordance
- Printed document batches from an IPRO server
- Performed maintenance on Ricoh scanners
Education
Berkeley College - Paralegal Studies
Berkeley College
01.2010
Devry Technical School - Electronic Technician
Devry Technical School
01.1997
Skills
- Windows
- Mac
- Documatrix
- Relativity
- Litera Metadact
- DTE Axiom
- Power PDF
- TruCrypt
- Rich Copy
- Irfanview
- Ipswitch WS FTP Professional
- Concordance
- IPRO
- Doculex
- UltraEdit
- Microsoft Access
- NERO Express
- Livenote
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- PowerPoint
- Adobe Acrobat
- Lotus Notes
- EDGAREase
- EDGARizer HTML
Timeline
Litigation Support
Johnson & Johnson
01.2023 - 01.2025
Project Manager
UTU Inc.
01.2021 - 01.2023
Final Media Specialist
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
01.2011 - 01.2019
Imaging Clerk, EDGAR Specialist
Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel LLP
01.2001 - 01.2009
Berkeley College - Paralegal Studies
Berkeley College
Devry Technical School - Electronic Technician
Devry Technical School