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Seth Elder

Washington

Summary

Accomplished Director at Ankura with expertise in data analysis and quality control, driving successful claims processing for large asbestos personal injury trusts. Proven ability to lead teams and enhance document management systems, ensuring compliance and efficiency in high-stakes litigation support. Recognized for delivering impactful results in complex legal environments.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Director

Ankura
Washington
03.2022 - Current
  • Heads efforts on behalf of multiple large asbestos personal injury trusts to interface with plaintiff firms, aiding them in researching and resolving claim holds, working to research and process pre-petition claims for payment, and maintaining the data infrastructure to track and account for claims status.
  • Leads subpoena research efforts, engaging with multiple different document sets and associated indices, reading through invoices, internal correspondences, and other contemporaneous documents to produce documents responsive to various subpoenas.
  • Responsible for backend edits/quality control and management of dozens of permanent employees and contractors in two large data collection and analysis efforts in support of active bankruptcy litigation, looking at larger data sets for quality assurance, ensuring that the end-product meets the client’s needs.

Senior Associate

Ankura
Washington
03.2019 - 03.2022
  • Lead efforts in interfacing with plaintiff firms, researching and resolving claim issues, maintaining claimant documentation and spreadsheets to document claims processing, helped with responding to subpoenas, and helped maintain and expand indices of documents on behalf of clients.

Associate

Ankura
Washington
08.2016 - 03.2019
  • Lead quality assurance tasks, engaged in initial review on behalf of trust tasks, including researching, documenting and resolving claim issues, helped in subpoena response, and travelled to multiple document repositories to help in effort to organize and assess documents in client’s possessions, making sure retention matched appropriate document retention policy.

Temporary Associate

Ankura
Washington
07.2015 - 08.2016
  • Lead quality assurance tasks, reviewed completed work, and helped programmatically diagnose and remedy mistakes for large projects centered around collecting and organizing data on behalf of trusts and active litigation, including handling copy editing for work product as a defense against factual, grammatical and syntactical mistakes on client facing work product.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science

Syracuse University (Maxwell School)
Syracuse, NY
05.2013

Skills

  • Data analysis
  • Quality control
  • Claims processing
  • Document management
  • Litigation support
  • Project management

Volunteer Experience

Centre County Youth Service Bureau, Teacher, AmeriCorps Volunteer. Managed volunteers, organized events and was trained on a multitude of community outreach strategies. Taught K-5 learning enrichment and ESL to students within the State College Area School District, often in small groups. Coordinated a variety of outreach programs and service projects.

Internship Experience

Freedom House, Communications Intern. Authored and edited press releases, reports and website copy. Managed Freedom House social media, namely Twitter and Facebook, while also monitoring social networking sites for world news pertinent to in house advocacy and research. Tracked Freedom House media penetration in Excel.

Timeline

Director

Ankura
03.2022 - Current

Senior Associate

Ankura
03.2019 - 03.2022

Associate

Ankura
08.2016 - 03.2019

Temporary Associate

Ankura
07.2015 - 08.2016

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science

Syracuse University (Maxwell School)

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