Cassie Oates | Director of Litigation Discovery

Cassie Oates

Director of Litigation Discovery

Cassie Oates has a decade of experience working with software experts in large and small‑scale software failure litigation. Her litigation experience includes arbitration, bench trials, and jury trials; Ms. Oates offers expertise in document review, fact witness interviews, change management, and testing best practices. As a small-business owner prior to her specialization in litigation, Ms. Oates experienced first-hand the challenges of converting old database management into a modern CRM system. That, coupled with watching an SAP implementation fail because of poor change management practices at the corporate level, has given Ms. Oates unique insight into the customer side of software failure.

In addition to her work in litigation discovery, Ms. Oates specializes in deposition and testimony preparation for arbitration and trial.

Areas of Expertise

  • Project Management and Complex Problem Solving
    • Ability to trouble-shoot in the moment, assess, and mitigate risk including those related to interpersonal relationships and challenges in organizational change management
    • Comfortable with all levels of vendor management, including requests for proposal, negotiations, contracting, accounts payable/receivable and invoicing.
  • Litigation Support
    • Success working for a challenging pre-eminent academic and courtroom voice in the field of software failure. Helped uncover the story and identify key facts for both plaintiff and defendant; both customer and integrator.
    • Identified the most important documents among tens of thousands in a project’s lifecycle to highlight the narrative of what happened in a software implementation for an arbitrator, judge or jury. Able to recognize project-critical documents which have been omitted.
    • Assisted in expert witness deposition and trial preparation. Assisted in creating interview questions as well as conducting client/percipient witness interviews and site visits.
    • Handled and interpreted discovery research, beginning from contract and complaint, and narrowing down to key personnel’s relevant emails, project plans, and steering committee minutes. Developed tracking methods for value of project management documents. Understand the difference between usable facts presented in project tracking as opposed to “rosier than actual” or misleading, unusable metrics.
    •  Wrote, edited, and provided feedback for expert reports and rebuttal reports.
  • Records Management
    • Effectively managed 100,000+ documents with millions of pages for large-scale system failure litigation matters, including capturing and maintaining key passages from hundreds of documents to be used in expert reports.
    • Efficiently summarized hundreds of pages of deposition to isolate key points which led to critical facts for the expert report.
    • Organized expert report drafts including references and external support backing up customer and integrator history.
    • Comfortable collaborating with counsel and customer representatives to appropriately access Sharepoint and internal legacy document management software. Developed a method to track video game samples; established budget procedures for sales staff.
    • Adroit adopter of new technology.

Litigation Consulting

  • I.A.T.S.E. National Health & Welfare Fund v.
    Avenu Insights & Analytics LLC, and CPAS Systems Inc.
     |
    Jurisdiction: Supreme Court of NY, New York County
    Case Number: 650787/2024
    Counsel: DLA Piper LLP
    Nature of Suit: Breach-of-Contract
  • Vimo Inc d/b/a GetInsured v. Deloitte Consulting LLP |
    Jurisdiction: Superior Court of CA, County of Santa Clara
    Case Number: G-24-7-NA, 22-cv-405262
    Counsel: Kirkland & Ellis LLP
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret, Breach of Contract
  • Mudflap, Inc v. Trucker Path, Inc |
    Jurisdiction: Judicial Arbitration & Mediation Services, Inc. (JAMS)
    Case Number: 5100001313
    Counsel: Carr McClellan P.C.
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret
  • MIADVG, LLC v. V2Solutions, Inc|
    Jurisdiction: American Arbitration Association, Santa Clara, California
    Case Number: 01-23-0000-2561
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
    Counsel: Palmieri, Tyler, Wiener, Wilhelm & Waldron LLP
  • dmarcian, Inc v. DMARC Advisor BV |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, Asheville
    Case Number: 1:21−cv−00067−MR
    Counsel: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
    Nature of Suit: Copyright
  • Confidential Customer v. Confidential Vendor |
    Jurisdiction: Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (JAMS)
    Case Number: 5450000478
    Counsel: Stinson LLP
    Nature of Suite: Software Dispute, Breach of Contract
  • LKQ Corporation v. Overall Parts Solutions |
    Jurisdiction: Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware
    Case Number: 2022-0036
    Counsel: Jones Day
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • WIPRO Limited v. First Data Government Solutions, LP |
    Jurisdiction: District Court, D. Nebraska
    Case Number: 4:22-cv-03116-JMG-MDN
    Counsel: IMS Consulting & Expert Services
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • AlmondNet Inc v. Amazon.com Inc |
    Jurisdiction: Western District of Texas
    Case Number: 6:21-cv-00898-ADA
    Counsel: Russ August & Kabat
    Nature of Suit: Patent
  • Best Ring, LLC v. Ronin POS, LLC |
    Jurisdiction: USDC Western District of Texas Waco Division
    Case Number: 6:22-CV-00766-ADA
    Counsel: Naman, Howell, Smith & Lee, PLLC
    Nature of Suit: Patent, Copyright, Trade Secret
  • K+S Potash Canada General Partnership v. Veolia Water Technologies Inc |
    Jurisdiction: Court Of Queen’s Bench For Saskatchewan
    Case Number: QB No. 817 (filed 2018)
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
    Counsel: Stikeman Elliott LLP
    Technology: Plant Design Management Systems (PDMS), Clash Detection, Database synchronization
    Role: Electronic Discovery and Document Review Lead
  • FastTrac Transportation, LLC v. Pedigree Technologies, LLC |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota
    Case Number: 3:22-CV-00053-PDW-ARS
    Counsel: Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • OpenText Corporation v. Softil, Inc |
    Jurisdiction: American Arbitration Association
    Case Number: AAA 01-22-0001-8608-20361
    Counsel: Vedder Price
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • ClubReady LLC v. Xponential Fitness |
    Jurisdiction: American Arbitration Association
    Case Number: AAA 01-21-0017- 8081-20347
    Counsel: Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • 1-800 Hansons LLC v. Rightpoint Consulting LLC |
    Jurisdiction: American Arbitration Association
    Counsel: Honigman LLP
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • Truinject Corp. v. Nestle Skin Health, S.A. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
    Case Number: 4:20-cv-457
    Counsel: Kasowitz Benson Torres, LLP & Beus Gilbert McGroder, PLLC
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • FinancialApps, LLC v. Envestnet, Inc and Yodlee, Inc |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
    Case Number: 19-cv-01337 – 20177
    Counsel: Kasowitz, Benson & Torres LLP
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret and Copyright
  • JK Soft, Inc v. Innoas, Inc |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
    Case Number: Civil Action Number: 2:18-cv-00199 (WJM)(MF)
    Counsel: Choi Law Group
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret and Copyright
  • Ventive LLC v. Title Pipe, Inc |
    Jurisdiction: American Arbitration Association
    Counsel: Mooney Wieland
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • Appian Corporation v. Pegasystems, Inc & Youyoung Zou |
    Jurisdiction: Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia
    Case Number: 2020-07216
    Counsel: Choate Hall & Stewart LLP
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret and Copyright
  • Mueller Supply Company, Inc D/B/A Mueller, Inc v.
    JNL Steel Components, Inc and Web Plant Media, LLC
    |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas San Angelo Division
    Case Number: 6:21-CV-00036-H
    Counsel: Foley and Lardner LLP
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret and Copyright
  • Manipal Education Americas, LLC v. Campus Management Corp. |
    Jurisdiction: American Arbitration Association
    Case Number: 01-19-0003-0449
    Counsel: Egozi & Bennett, P.A.
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Labor and Industry v. International Business Machines Corp. |
    Jurisdiction: Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
    Case Number: 2017-CV-1740-CV
    Counsel: Jones Day
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • ECI Software Solutions, Inc v. John Plyler Plumbing and Hardware, Inc |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division
    Case Number: 3:18-cv-02758-S
    Counsel: Greenberg Traurig, LLP
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret and Copyright
  • Toms Shoes v. Infosys |
    Jurisdiction: Mediation
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • American Type Culture Collection v. Armanino, LLP |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria Division)
    Case Number: 1:2017cv01235
    Counsel: Holland & Knight LLP
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • Iowa Workforce Development |
    Counsel: Special Litigation Division, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa
    Nature of Consultation: Discussion of Breach of Contract
  • Electronic Transaction Consultants Corporation v. Miami-Dade County Expressway Authority |
    Jurisdiction: Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami-Dade County, Florida
    Case Number: 12-46272CA10
    Counsel: Vezina, Lawrence and Piscitelli
    Nature of Suit: Retrial of Breach of Contract
  • America’s Collectibles Network, Inc d/b/a Jewelry Television v. Sterling Commerce (America), Inc |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville
    Case Number: 3:09-cv-143
    Counsel: Kilpatrick Townsend
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • H.B. Fuller Corp. v. Accenture, LLP |
    Jurisdiction: American Arbitration Association
    Counsel: Bowman & Brooke/ Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • Xerox State and Local Solutions, Inc f/k/a ACS State & Local Solutions, Inc v.
    Xchanging Solutions USA, Inc f/k/a Albion, Inc and Xchanging Solutions Limited f/k/a Cambridge Solutions Limited
    |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
    Case Number: 13 Civ. 3472 (LLS)
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract

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