EXPANDING EXPERIENTIAL: CIVIL PROCEDURE STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT E-DISCOVERY PRACTICES FROM UNITEDLEX ATTORNEY SAMANTHA HONEA
November 2022 — This fall Civil Procedure students heard from attorney Samantha Honea about her work with UnitedLex, an international leader in E-Discovery and tech-based litigation practices. Honea, an invited guest to Associate Dean Mae C. Quinn’s Civil Procedure Course, described the importance of A-I and technology assisted review (TAR) platforms for screening and managing documents on either side of a discovery request. Students also got to see how such platforms operate as Honea offered insights into specific discovery matters the student may encounter in practice, particularly in the corporate client space.
Professor Mae C. Quinn brings over 25 years of experience as a practicing attorney, civil rights advocate, and leader in the legal academy to her role as associate dean of experiential education. She has successfully taught across the entire law school curriculum, including legal writing, doctrinal, seminar, field placement/practicum, trial advocacy, and clinical legal education courses. She and her law students have also recently filed amicus briefs with the United States Supreme Court and state high courts in several important criminal and youth justice matters. Her scholarship, cited widely by courts, advocates and academics alike, has been published in leading journals including the Boston College Law Review, BYU Law Review, Iowa Law Review, SMU Law Review, Wake Forest Law Review, Washington and Lee Law Review, Harvard Journal of Gender and Law, and New York University Review of Law and Social Change.