The founders of Marshall Legal Staffing have over 35 years combined experience at major international law firms dealing with complex commercial litigation, government investigations, mass tort, and products liability matters.  We have supervised and participated in the same types of discovery projects that you are currently facing.  We have experience recruiting and interviewing attorneys.  We also have staff experienced in professional recruiting.  We understand your practice, ethical implications, professional responsibilities and the challenges you face in outsourcing discovery.  We want to build a long term relationship with your firm or organization to provide the high quality legal services that we have been trained to expect.  We want to work with you to build a successful future for you and your clients.

We have attorneys seeking temporary or permanent employment, who have experience or expertise in the following areas:

• Energy/Regulatory

• Accounting

• Medical

• Nursing

• Engineering

• Environmental Law

• Securities Law

• Products Liability Law

• General Civil and Commercial Litigation

• Intellectual Property

• Labor/Employment

• ERISA

• Corporate Investigations

• Business Transactions

• Analyst/Auditor for oil and gas industry

We also have non-lawyers seeking temporary employment, who have the following expertise and experience:

• Software source code, particularly in regard to ownership issues 

• Firmware engineering in the PC industry

• RN - Legal Nurse Consultant w/6 years experience in toxic tort - medical record review and expert witness management for major international law firm.

Susanne M. Nelson, Esq. 

President and CEO

Susanne practiced commercial litigation with Jones Day in Houston,Texas from 2001 to 2009. She practiced commercial litigation with a Houston litigation boutique, Bayko Gibson,  from 1997 until 2001, when Bayko Gibson merged with Jones Day.  Before that, she served as Briefing Attorney to Justice Tim Taft of the First District Court of Appeals of Texas from 1996 to 1997.  Susanne graduated summa cum laude from South Texas College of Law in 1996. Susanne has extensive experience in attorney recruiting and all aspects of litigation and discovery.  She has overseen large-scale discovery and e-discovery projects and worked directly with contract attorneys throughout her career. (read more)

Kristi Whiteside, Esq.

Vice President Business Development

Kristi practiced commercial litigation with Jones Day in Dallas, Texas from 1994 until 2003, when she transferred to the Jones Day Houston office, where she practiced until 2008.  Kristi also worked for Jones Day Dallas while completing her undergraduate and law degrees at Southern Methodist University.  Kristi has extensive experience in attorney recruiting and all aspects of litigation and discovery.  She has overseen large-scale discovery projects and worked directly with contract attorneys throughout her career. (read more)

Jennifer Bishop, Esq.

Director - Dallas Operations

Jennifer practiced commercial litigation with Jones Day in Dallas, Texas from 2000 until 2009.  Jennifer has extensive experience in attorney recruiting and all aspects of litigation and discovery.  Jennifer has coordinated and supervised large-scale e-discovery projects and mass tort litigation throughout her career.  For the last five  years, she has been integrally involved in supervising large groups of attorneys, staff and contract attorneys overseeing pretrial matters and electronic discovery.  (read more)

Advisory Board

Our Advisory Board includes experienced experts in the law, business, technology, and e-discovery.

Robert Leidich, Esq. - Business Law Advisor

Bob Leidich, Esq., former Jones Day partner and former General Counsel of NL Industries, Inc. and Baroid Corp., has practiced law since 1971 and has extensive experience with inter alia, U.S. and international business formation, mergers and acquisitions. (read more)

Daniel Lim, Esq. – E-Discovery Advisor

Daniel Lim is an Assistant General Counsel for Guidance Software, Inc. Guidance specializes in digitalinvestigative solutions. Before joining Guidance, Daniel worked nine years as a litigation attorney, practicing complex commercial litigation and assisting major energy companies in responding to government investigations, primarily at Jones Day. (read more)

Michael Slaughter, C.P.A. – Financial and Business Advisor

Michael Slaughter is an experienced executive with finance and accounting background in various public and private companies, public accounting, initial and secondary public offerings, acquisitions and other capital markets transactions. He has 21 years of experience in finance, accounting and auditing, risk management and internal controls, treasury management, financial planning, financial reporting and investor relations in a high-growth environment.

Michael is currently the Chief Financial Officer for Champion Energy Services, a leading retail electricity provider in Texas and Illinois. (read more)

 

Disclaimer:  Jones Day is not affiliated in any way with Marshall Legal Staffing LLC, Jones Day is mentioned only as informational background on the attorneys' experience.  The term founders as used above has no legal significance as to ownership in the Company and is used only for convenience of reference.