Linval Bailey Jr.
Lawrenceville,GA
Summary
Senior eDiscovery professional with hands-on experience in ESI processing, RelativityOne workspace management, production QC, and litigation support across complex matters. Supports attorneys and project teams with metadata handling, OCR, privilege review, redactions, and defensible data processing while maintaining accurate load files, audit logs, and case documentation.
Overview
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Certification
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
eDiscovery Processing Engineer
Array
06.2025 - 06.2026
- Executed end-to-end processing of complex datasets including mobile device backups, chat logs, and cloud exports leveraging industry-standard tools to ensure data readiness for legal review.
- Configured processing settings, extracted metadata, managed deduplication, and reviewed processing exceptions.
- Performed quality checks to ensure document counts, extracted text, metadata, and family relationships were accurate.
- Enhanced database efficiency through advanced deduplication, metadata normalization, and OCR text extraction, supporting timely data readiness.
- Developed and maintained SOPs and audit logs to uphold chain-of-custody protocols essential for forensic defensibility.
- Manage RelativityOne workspaces, including workspace creation, user permissions, security groups, fields, layouts, views, and saved searches.
- Partnered with Project Managers to define technical specifications and meet aggressive litigation deadlines for high-stakes matters.
Project Coordinator
Complete Discovery Source
09.2021 - 03.2025
- Facilitated communication among management, team members, and stakeholders to ensure project alignment and clarity. with direct management, team, internal and external stakeholders
- Collaborate with attorneys, paralegals, litigation support specialists, and project managers to understand case requirements and resolve production-related issues.
- Developed and maintained databases and review repositories, performing comprehensive production QC to verify Bates numbering, document counts, page counts, confidentiality stamps, redactions, and production completeness.
- Assisted in configuring RelativityOne workspaces, including user access, security permissions, fields, layouts, views, and saved searches.
- Supported litigation and investigation matters by managing electronic documents and discovery data throughout the eDiscovery lifecycle.
- Perform OCR processing in preparation for loading into database
- Maintained detailed documentation of file transfers and shipment processes
Legal Technology Data Specialist
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
New York, NY
09.2008 - 09.2021
- Managed electronic documents and discovery data for litigation and investigations.
- Validated production images, extracted text, metadata, and load files before delivery.
- Performed detailed QC to verify production accuracy and completeness, meeting client specifications.
- Validated load files, image files, extracted text, and native document references prior to final delivery, ensuring quality standards.
- Convert, manipulate and validate various load file formats
- Designed and established databases to store critical information. and perform database maintenance including image and native replacement
- Perform database administration tasks including document deletion, field merges and creation of custom views & coding layouts
- Utilized conceptual search, email threading, near-duplicate detection, and clustering to improve document analysis and review efficiency.
- Supported legal teams in identifying related documents, communication patterns, and potentially relevant information.
Electronic Data Discovery Specialist
Legal Document Services International
New York, NY
02.2008 - 09.2008
- Executed ESI processing and developed databases to support electronic discovery
- Extracted metadata and text, deduplicated data, and applied search terms to enhance review efficiency
- Created and maintained Concordance databases to ensure accurate and accessible data retrieval
- Data analysis, and reporting to Project management
- Conducted software testing to identify bugs and ensure functionality
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
University of Phoenix
Jersey City, NJ01-2012
Skills
- Ediscovery processing
- Data Ingestion & ESI Processing
- Metadata extraction
- OCR processing
- Document processing
- Production quality control
- Production preparation
- RelativityOne administration
- Conceptual searching
- Litigation support
- Stakeholder Management
- Data Governance
Certification
Relativity One Certified Pro
Timeline
eDiscovery Processing Engineer
Array
06.2025 - 06.2026
Project Coordinator
Complete Discovery Source
09.2021 - 03.2025
Legal Technology Data Specialist
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
09.2008 - 09.2021
Electronic Data Discovery Specialist
Legal Document Services International
02.2008 - 09.2008
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
University of Phoenix