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Juliet Ozuloha

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Experienced legal professional and Document Reviewer

Toronto, ON

HAYSTACK
NIGERIAN LAW SCHOOL

À propos

Experienced legal professional and Document Reviewer with 6+ years of experience in eDiscovery, litigation support, and legal analysis across Canada and the United States. Skilled in first level and second-level review, relevancy, responsiveness, privilege review, issue coding, redaction, and quality control. Proficient in Relativity and Relativity One for high-volume electronic document review and ESI analysis. Experienced in identifying key and hot documents, confidential information, and potentially privileged communications. Strong understanding of discovery, document production, litigation privilege, and review protocols. Detail-oriented with strong legal judgment and the ability to deliver accurate, consistent work under demanding deadlines.

Compétences

  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Word

Expérience

  1. Senior Document Reviewer / Quality Control Reviewer

    HAYSTACK

    nov. 2025 to Aujourd’hui

    • Conduct high-volume first level and second-level document review for complex litigation, investigations, regulatory matters, and electronic discovery projects involving substantial volumes of ESI. • Review emails, attachments, contracts, corporate records, financial documents, spreadsheets, presentations, internal communications, policies, reports, and other electronically stored information using Relativity/Relativity One. • Analyze documents for relevancy, responsiveness, privilege, confidentiality, issue classification, and evidentiary significance in accordance with project-specific review protocols. • Perform quality control review of documents coded by first-level reviewers to verify accuracy, consistency, and compliance with client instructions and review guidelines. • Review potentially privileged communications to identify attorney-client privilege, attorney work product, common-interest communications, and other protected information requiring escalation or withholding. • Analyze email communications and attachments to determine whether privilege extends across document families and communication chains. • Identify and escalate hot documents, key evidence, unusual communications, significant admissions, and documents presenting litigation or regulatory risk. • Apply issue tags and coding decisions consistently across large document populations based on established factual and legal criteria. • Conduct confidentiality reviews and identify documents requiring appropriate confidentiality designations or redactions. • Identify potentially sensitive information, including personal identifiable information and confidential business information, requiring special handling. • Perform redaction review and identify portions of responsive documents containing privileged, confidential, proprietary, or sensitive information. • Review document families to maintain consistent coding decisions between parent emails and attachments. • Analyze email threads to identify substantive communications, duplicative material, relevant participants, and significant chronological developments. • Utilize Relativity review tools, coding layouts, saved searches, filters, document batches, family relationships, and metadata fields to conduct efficient reviews. • Apply review protocols consistently while meeting established documents-per-hour, accuracy, and quality expectations. • Participate in project calibration exercises to ensure consistent interpretation of responsiveness, privilege, issue, and confidentiality criteria across review teams. • Escalate ambiguous coding questions and unusual documents to Review Managers and supervising attorneys. • Incorporate review-manager feedback and updated protocol guidance into subsequent coding decisions. • Conduct targeted QC searches to identify potential coding inconsistencies, missed privilege, tagging errors, and document-family discrepancies. • Maintain detailed understanding of project-specific factual allegations, parties, custodians, terminology, timelines, and legal issues. • Work independently in a secure remote review environment while complying with strict client confidentiality and data-security requirements.

  2. Document Review Specialist / Litigation Support

    FASKEN

    janv. 2025 to nov. 2025

    Toronto, Ontario

    • Supported lawyers and litigation teams with document review and eDiscovery activities arising from complex commercial disputes, civil litigation, regulatory matters, investigations, and other intensive document proceedings. • Conducted detailed review of electronically stored information using Relativity One, applying project-specific coding protocols for responsiveness, privilege, confidentiality, issues, and document significance. • Reviewed large volumes of emails, corporate correspondence, agreements, transactional documents, financial records, reports, memoranda, presentations, and other evidence. • Assessed documents for relevance and responsiveness to pleadings, allegations, defenses, discovery issues, regulatory requests, and investigation mandates. • Performed privilege analysis to identify communications potentially protected by solicitor-client privilege and litigation privilege. • Identified communications involving legal counsel and analyzed the context and purpose of communications to determine whether escalation for privilege consideration was required. • Applied issue codes and factual classifications to facilitate case-team analysis, witness preparation, discovery strategy, and litigation preparation. • Identified potentially significant or hot documents and escalated them to supervising lawyers and senior review personnel. • Assisted with second level and QC review to ensure consistent application of review protocols across document populations. • Compared coding decisions across similar documents and document families to identify inconsistencies requiring correction. • Conducted review of email threads, attachments, document families, metadata, and related records to understand the full context of communications. • Assisted litigation teams with locating documents relevant to particular allegations, witnesses, transactions, events, and disputed issues. • Supported development of factual chronologies by identifying documents establishing key dates, communications, decisions, and events. • Assisted with document-production preparation by confirming coding decisions and identifying potential privilege, confidentiality, or redaction concerns before production. • Conducted targeted searches and document analysis using keywords, custodians, dates, metadata fields, and other search criteria. • Maintained organized and defensible review documentation consistent with established litigation-support and eDiscovery practices. • Collaborated with lawyers, law clerks, eDiscovery professionals, and project managers regarding document-review priorities, coding questions, and workflow requirements. • Assisted with expedited review assignments requiring rapid analysis of high-priority document populations under strict litigation deadlines. • Maintained confidentiality and professional responsibility obligations when handling highly sensitive client, commercial, personal, and litigation information.

  3. Document Reviewer

    KALLOGHLIAN MYERS LLP

    janv. 2024 to déc. 2024

    Toronto, Ontario

    • Conducted intensive document review for class actions, civil litigation, and complex plaintiff-side litigation matters involving significant volumes of documentary evidence. • Reviewed documents using Relativity to determine relevance and categorize records according to project-specific review criteria. • Analyzed emails, correspondence, financial documentation, corporate records, agreements, internal reports, policies, memoranda, and other evidence relevant to litigation claims. • Applied responsiveness, relevance, issue, confidentiality, privilege, and key-document coding based on established review protocols. • Identified documents supporting or contradicting material allegations and escalated significant evidence for lawyer review. • Conducted detailed factual analysis to identify patterns, timelines, communications, corporate decisions, representations, and events relevant to class-wide allegations. • Identified key individuals, entities, custodians, transactions, and communication chains appearing throughout document populations. • Flagged potentially significant documents that could assist counsel in developing litigation theories, pleadings, discovery strategy, or evidentiary arguments. • Reviewed financial and corporate documentation to identify information potentially relevant to damages, representations, transactions, corporate conduct, and investor-related issues. • Assisted with privilege and confidentiality screening prior to further litigation use or document production. • Conducted issue coding to organize evidence into substantive categories and facilitate efficient retrieval by litigation counsel. • Reviewed document families and related communications to ensure consistent treatment of emails and attachments. • Applied review guidelines consistently across repetitive and high-volume document populations. • Participated in calibration discussions and implemented updated review instructions following clarification from supervising counsel. • Escalated ambiguous documents and coding questions rather than making unsupported assumptions regarding privilege or responsiveness. • Assisted with quality-control exercises by reviewing previously coded documents and identifying inconsistent tagging or classification. • Maintained accurate and defensible coding decisions while achieving required review productivity. • Protected highly confidential information and maintained strict compliance with professional confidentiality requirements.

  4. Legal Assistant – Litigation & Document Management

    OMERUE LAW FIRM

    janv. 2020 to déc. 2023

    Dallas

    • Provided comprehensive legal and administrative support to attorneys handling litigation and other legal matters in a fast-paced U.S. law-firm environment. • Reviewed incoming case documents, correspondence, discovery materials, client records, court documents, contracts, reports, and other evidence for completeness, relevance, and appropriate file classification. • Assisted attorneys with discovery document review, including organizing and analyzing documents responsive to discovery requests. • Reviewed case records to identify relevant information, important dates, parties, communications, and supporting evidence. • Organized electronic and physical case files to ensure efficient retrieval of pleadings, discovery materials, correspondence, evidence, and attorney work product. • Assisted with preparing documents for attorney review, discovery responses, litigation preparation, and client meetings. • Conducted preliminary document analysis and summarized relevant factual information for supervising attorneys. • Assisted in identifying potentially confidential and privileged communications requiring attorney review. • Reviewed correspondence and documentary evidence to identify inconsistencies, missing information, and records requiring follow-up. • Prepared factual chronologies and organized documents according to dates, issues, witnesses, parties, and litigation events. • Drafted and formatted legal correspondence, memoranda, pleadings, affidavits, discovery-related documents, and other litigation materials under attorney supervision. • Assisted with legal research and preparation of case summaries concerning applicable statutes, regulations, procedural requirements, and case law. • Maintained confidential client information and handled sensitive records in accordance with attorney-client confidentiality requirements. • Assisted attorneys in preparing document exhibits and supporting evidence for motions, hearings, depositions, negotiations, and other litigation proceedings. • Communicated professionally with clients, attorneys, courts, service providers, and other stakeholders regarding case documentation and administrative matters. • Managed competing assignments and litigation deadlines while maintaining strong attention to detail and document accuracy.

  5. Lawyer / Legal Counsel

    Kayode & co

    sept. 2012 to déc. 2019

    • Practiced law with responsibility for litigation, legal research, dispute resolution, client representation, negotiation, and document-intensive legal matters. • Reviewed extensive documentary evidence, contracts, correspondence, witness materials, financial records, pleadings, and other case documentation. • Analyzed evidence to determine relevance, reliability, evidentiary significance, and potential impact on litigation strategy. • Drafted pleadings, affidavits, legal opinions, written submissions, settlement documentation, agreements, and legal correspondence. • Conducted legal research and prepared detailed analyses of legislation, regulations, judicial decisions, and procedural requirements. • Managed complex client matters require careful analysis of factual records and confidential information. • Prepared case chronologies and organized documentary evidence for litigation and dispute-resolution proceedings. • Participated in negotiations, settlement discussions, hearings, and court proceedings. • Maintained strict professional confidentiality and privilege obligations.

Formation

  1. NIGERIAN LAW SCHOOL

    Barrister-at-Law (B.L.)

    2012

  2. NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY

    Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)

    2010

Permis et certifications

  • Call to the Ontario Bar

    LAW SOCIETY OF ONTARIO

  • Certificate of Qualification

    FEDERATION OF LAW SOCIETIES OF CANADA

  • Claims Adjuster Certificate – Texas

  • Professional Negotiator & Mediator (PNM)