Year Joined Organization: 2006

Lawyer Overview

Clay Bonnet is a staff attorney in the firm's Securities Department, and a member of the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practice Group. He joined the firm in 2006.

Practice

Mr. Bonnet focuses his practice on issues of e-discovery. Specifically, he works with other attorneys, litigation technology project managers, and paralegals on teams that manage electronic and other documents in large cases and investigations. Attorneys on these teams take a leadership role in the document control process, systematically tracking documents from preservation to collection and through review and production. They work with e-discovery vendors and their review and analytical tools; review documents; train and oversee other firm and contract attorneys who review documents; and partner with project managers to perform production quality control.

Mr. Bonnet has direct experience with corporate and securities matters, specifically investigations into accounting practices at a major financial institution and stock option practices at a high-profile insurance company. Additionally, he has extensive experience with the technical aspects of privilege and the logging of privileged documents.

While in law school, Mr. Bonnet was a research assistant in the Office of General Counsel at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Prior to his legal career, Mr. Bonnet worked as an accountant and financial analyst for several years. He has specialized experience in investment company accounting and operations.

Areas of Practice

• Securities
• Financial Services
• Litigation and Enforcement

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Securities Law

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Virginia

Education

• George Mason University School of Law, 2004
  JD
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1996
  BS, Finance
  Honors: cum laude

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