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United Business Bank | Current role + AVP scope

Legal-order workflow design across a regulated, multi-state environment

This case study shows how I bring order to fragmented legal and records workflows: legal orders, legal holds, subpoenas, production requests, bankruptcy matters, matter-file discipline, and legal-spend visibility.

Challenge

High-stakes requests were crossing multiple teams and systems

Legal orders, records requests, workflow exceptions, and production deadlines all needed cleaner ownership. The environment required careful routing, better documentation control, and stronger matter readiness so regulated requests did not get delayed or mishandled.

What I Owned

Workflow design, tracking discipline, and response-readiness support

  • Supported an AI review initiative for legal documents and built workflow paths for Requests for Production of Records, subpoenas, bankruptcy matters, and other banking legal-document requests.
  • Coordinated legal orders, legal holds, records requests, and workflow exceptions across internal teams.
  • Used Brightflag to support legal-operations workflows, legal budget review, and invoice troubleshooting.
  • Mapped documentation gaps, escalation paths, retention checks, and matter-file expectations.
  • Connected current-state operational issues to cleaner response timelines and better downstream reliability.

Related Prior Scope

Broader legal-operations proof from the AVP role

  • Managed end-to-end legal-order and documentation workflows across high-volume requests.
  • Reviewed 500+ legal documents with zero errors across California, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico.
  • Reviewed entity records, ownership documents, trust records, subpoenas, and Requests for Business Production of Records.
  • Supported EDGAR Next access readiness and 10-Q-adjacent litigation-status exhibit workflows.
  • Managed the legal department budget within plan and trained staff on legal review standards.

Why It Matters

Transferable value for legal teams

The core skill here is not just processing requests. It is building an operating layer around sensitive work so a legal team has cleaner intake, clearer ownership, better status visibility, stronger records control, and fewer preventable delays.