Tanya Wood
Rockville,MD
Summary
Results-driven legal and compliance professional with extensive experience in managing complex litigation, conducting risk assessments, and ensuring regulatory compliance within the financial services and government sectors. Proven expertise in SEC filings, rulemaking initiatives, and litigation strategies across federal and financial institutions, including Freddie Mac and the Department of Justice. Expert in legal research, regulatory analysis, interpretive guidance, and drafting materials such as Board Action Items and Regulatory Notices. Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage complex litigation projects, and ensure compliance with federal securities laws, FINRA regulations, and administrative procedures. Proficient in LexisNexis, Westlaw, SharePoint, Visio, and eDiscovery platforms. Recognized for delivering high-impact compliance solutions, stakeholder collaboration, and effective project execution.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Supervisory Paralegal – Civil Protection Branch
Department of Justice/Amentum
07.2022 - Current
- Lead a team of 30+ Law Clerks supporting complex federal litigation projects, ensuring compliance with DOJ protocols, federal regulations, and internal governance standards
- Managed eDiscovery and litigation support policies to align with court rules and internal risk management frameworks
- Conduct compliance risk assessments, identify control gaps, and advise senior management on strategies to mitigate operational and regulatory risks
- Collaborate with attorneys, compliance teams, and senior leadership to align litigation strategies with consumer protection law and privacy regulations
- Manage case assignments across multiple regulatory investigations, ensuring consistent risk monitoring, issue tracking, and timely resolution of compliance gaps
- Proactively participated in high-level compliance meetings, providing detailed summaries, actionable recommendations, and decision-making support to senior management
- Led process improvements using SharePoint and Excel to enhance compliance documentation, reporting transparency, and workflow efficiency
- Supported data governance initiatives by ensuring litigation support adhered to security, privacy, and retention standards
- Communicate to the Civil Protection Branch case status updates and case assignments summary
- Managed documents on SharePoint and used Excel and Visio to organize data, manage workflows, and create visual process diagrams
- Implement effective communication protocols between all parties involved in each project
- Monitored project milestones and deliverable
- Performing other duties as assigned
Sr Paralegal – Government Contract
Department of Justice/CACI
02.2020 - 06.2022
- Prepared case memoranda and reports providing a detailed analysis describing the facts and the outcome of my findings
- Performed criminal investigation for litigation cases using Lexis Advance, Westlaw, online data searches and public searches
- Managed federal litigation cases including filing court documents in Federal Court
- Prepare and facilitate training for paralegals in the Tax Division Office of Review on routine procedural practices
- Collaborated with counterparts to conduct and apply legal research focused on consumer financial law and litigation pertaining to taxpayer income taxes, including analyzed legislation, regulations, and case law
- Managed and updated electronic databases
- Adopted the role of Case Manager, handling litigation support tasks for the team, managing complex cases and projects, adjusting to meet the staffing needs as they evolve
- Conducted in-depth analysis of evidence pertinent to litigation cases contributing to comprehensive case strategies and supporting successful legal outcomes
- Collaborated closely with attorneys to ensure accurate and efficient document preparation, enhancing the department's ability to meet critical deadlines
- Skillfully conducted and documented interviews with potential witnesses, contributing valuable insights and evidence for case strategy development
- Analyzed how legislation and regulations impact taxpayer judgments
- Managed, update, and maintain cases in litigation databases
- Provided eDiscovery support using Relativity, Everlaw and iPro
- Collaborated with counterparts to identify a strategic plan on managing litigation cases
- Examined case-related documents (eg, financial statements, reports, inventories, invoices, and employment data) to determine relevance to the case and legal sufficiency
- Conducted phone conferences with IRS Advisors, debtors, trustees, and attorneys to collect information and discuss taxpayer compliance with tax judgment payment
- Managed crafting and refining documents from initial drafts to their finalized versions which involves integrating feedback from colleagues and submitting the drafts to supervisors for their review
- Collaborate with neighboring tax departments on special projects
Corporate Paralegal/Temp
Special Counsel
10.2018 - 02.2020
- Prepared, created, and provided collection status reports to the General Counsel
- Managed online research platforms (including LEXIS and Westlaw) and document review platforms (Everlaw, Relativity, Clearwell, Pacer etc)
- Provided independent, self-directed day-to-day case management, and monitored deadlines
- Collaborate with the team to identify, assess, analyze, and remedy loss exposures and monitor risk control and financial resources to mitigate any negative effects of loss
- Managed the company's corporate and entity-level books and records, structure charts and critical files; ensure that Company entities remain in good standing
- Developed and administered lease administration policies and procedures for tracking and management of leases
- Oversee contract management, preparing financial summaries, progress reports, and other contract deliverables
- Prepared oral presentations on new onboarding companies using Word, Adobe Professional, PowerPoint and other computer software
- Prepared Board minutes as well as summarize action items for weekly reports
- Managed investor documentation and on-boarding processes with investors
- Evaluate and complete regulatory submissions based on rule requirements, manage insider trading compliance program operations, and oversee and monitor compliance
- Prepare financial analysis of investors' stability and summarize my findings in the report
- Maintained loan covenant compliance, financial closing documents and worked collaboratively with the internal accounting team and fund controller on related tasks to ensure SEC compliance
- Identified potential legal risk to asset related processes and procedures
- Direct projects related to legal compliance with respect to records management and information management procedures
- Assisted with due diligence activities associated with corporate transactions including preparing organizational charts and researching public records
Sr Asset Management Analyst
Freddie Mac – Multifamily Division
02.2016 - 05.2017
- Reviewed loan documents and third-party reports for newly closed loans to determine loan level attributes and tracking items
- As a Senior Asset Management Analyst, I incorporated and applied the guidelines and mechanisms established by TARP to manage and mitigate the risks associated with distressed assets
- Worked closely with legal, compliance, and finance teams to ensure alignment with Freddie Mac’s policies and TARP requirements
- Tracked, resolved, managed, and reported loan conflicts
- Managed several loan deals and ensure that they follow state and federal loan regulations while determining how these regulations will determine loan outcome
- Communicate ideas effectively through visual media
- Led loan compliance efforts for given loan pool securitizations by working with servicers to obtain information and shared information with all relevant internal parties
- Conducted analysis, evaluating controls, monitoring, identifying control gaps, and remediating issues
- Supported the process of reviewing and analyzing loan level financial and physical property information
- Provided resolutions to an extensive range of complicated problems by responding to outside inquiries to reconcile and clarify issues related to lost or damaged MBS certificates
- Ensured potential issues are raised promptly to senior management
- Evaluated third party’s critical attributes to determine risk tier
- Managed quality control error statistics for the loan database and provided an analysis of my findings
- Determined the cause of documented issues and provide resolution to prevent future errors
- Reviewed loan files, servicing records, and underwriting documents to identify potential signs of discriminatory lending practices I flagged any red flags that could indicate violations, ensuring that we stayed proactive in addressing compliance concerns
- Managed all aspects of Project management from coordination to completion
- Corresponded and provided guidance to internal and external customers while providing organizational directors with daily progress reports of mortgage-backed securities and related activities
- Provided analysis of researched data to internal stakeholders
- Managed policy and system audit findings pertaining to Freddie Mac by identifying and remedy current issues as well as executing different means to manage control
- Established relationships with other departments by acting as a liaison to groups outside the Multifamily division to establish an all-inclusive corporation of Freddie Mac’s policies and procedures that affect loan compliance
- Monitored portfolio performance through review of watch list, delinquency, maturing loan reports and managed assigned risk rating classifications compiled and managed by the Asset Management Group
Legal Analyst
Freddie Mac - Legal Department
10.2006 - 02.2016
- Analyzed statutes, case law, administrative rules, federal regulations and/or opinions to assist in drafting legal documents supporting a rulemaking process
- Communicated a plan of action regarding case updates to the appropriate AGC
- Provided discovery support such as organizing discovery documents, summarized transcripts, prepared and identified exhibits, depositions, interrogators as well trial notes
- Managed large cases by filing case documents electronically, maintaining the docket for each case, updating all litigation and non- litigated case data in outlook, SharePoint, and other electronic databases
- Create policy documents, evaluate compliance, and manage and mitigate risk
- Prepared presentations in securitization and structured financial transactions
- Conducted training on the understanding of legal and regulatory policy issues affecting securities transactions that are related to mortgage- backed securities markets
- Provided supervision regarding technical issues as necessary for completion and accuracy for projects
- Interact with senior management by corresponding on significant technical matters frequently requiring coordination across organizational lines
- Negotiated third party Release Agreements as well as draft and review contract awards for third party vendors
- Managed all claims for outstanding funds that are owed to Freddie Mac from banking institutions that have closed
- These claims are produced from data for each loan from the closed institutions
- Managed bank closure claims filed to the FDIC for all REO properties
- Provide a status of each claim filed on a quarterly basis to the Federal Housing Finance Agency
- Collaborated with the Multifamily Division with K-Deal closures
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to perform tasks accurately and quickly
- Researched and reviewed regulatory, technical or market issues related to sustainability
- Conducted detailed research on Fair Lending laws like ECOA, FHA, and predatory lending practices
- Played a key role in developing and maintaining internal playbooks and policy documents focused on Fair Lending protocols, risk management, and Freddie Mac's responsibilities in the secondary mortgage market
- Worked to ensure that litigation strategies were aligned with Freddie Mac’s commitment to fair lending and consumer protection
- Ensured consistency with the latest changes to the Freddie Mac Seller/Servicer Guide to help our legal teams prepare and adjust strategies as needed
- Contributed to risk assessments by identifying areas where controls might be lacking and worked on developing strategies to strengthen them and mitigate potential risks
- Collaborated with a wide range of teams, including Enterprise Compliance, Legal, and Risk, to share insights and help drive solutions that aligned with both regulatory requirements and business goals
- Regularly prepared detailed compliance reports and summaries for senior leadership, explaining complex legal issues in a way that helped inform decisions during audits and regulatory reviews
Education
Paralegal Certificate -
University of Maryland University College
Bachelor of Science - Management
University of Maryland University College
MBA - Business Administration And Management
American University
Washington, DC06-2027
Skills
- Compliance Risk Management (Fair Lending and Fair Housing)
- Excel
- Regulatory Compliance & Governance
- Cross Function and Team
- Leadership Communication
- Risk Assessment & Issue Management
- Internal Investigations & Remediation
- RiskWorks, Microsoft Office Suite
- Data Governance and Privacy
- Compliance
- EDiscovery
- SharePoint
- Project Management
- Legal Research
- Policy & Risk Mitigation Strategies
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Proficient in MS office
- Case management
- Client communication
- Legal research
- Calendar management
- Research and data collection
- Legal writing
- Legal compliance
- Legal analysis
- Project management
- Compliance monitoring
- Policy research
- Multitasking
Timeline
Supervisory Paralegal – Civil Protection Branch
Department of Justice/Amentum
07.2022 - Current
Sr Paralegal – Government Contract
Department of Justice/CACI
02.2020 - 06.2022
Corporate Paralegal/Temp
Special Counsel
10.2018 - 02.2020
Sr Asset Management Analyst
Freddie Mac – Multifamily Division
02.2016 - 05.2017
Legal Analyst
Freddie Mac - Legal Department
10.2006 - 02.2016
Bachelor of Science - Management
University of Maryland University College
Paralegal Certificate -
University of Maryland University College
MBA - Business Administration And Management
American University
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