Department of Human Services Civil Rights Class Action Litigation
Appointed Special Assistant Attorney General to serve as lead discovery and trial counsel for a state Department of Human Services in a federal court civil rights class action filed on behalf of the 19,000 children in the state’s foster care system
Designed, implemented and defended a discovery data preservation and production strategy that involved the collection of more than 1,000,000 pages of foster care records, policies and procedures from multiple locations across the state
Prepared and defended 31 department depositions
Briefed and argued motion seeking protective order to protect foster care children’s confidential information
Briefed and argued several discovery motions to limit overly broad and burdensome requests for production of documents