Omar Ghaffar

Serve as the eDiscovery lead for the Chicago office of the U.S.

Commodity Futures Trading

Commission (CFTC), managing end-to-end litigation support and eDiscovery operations for confidential enforcement matters involving attorneys, investigators, and paralegals. Assigned to the CFTC Complex Fraud Division, supporting high-profile investigations including FTX, Binance, Three Arrows Capital, Polymarket, and other complex financial matters. Manage the full eDiscovery lifecycle, including data intake, processing, review workflows, quality control, productions, and data transfers while ensuring compliance with strict federal deadlines and CFTC-specific requirements.

Administer

Relativity workspaces, including saved searches, productions, analytics, user access, security groups, workspace configuration, and case-management workflows. Generate native and load-ready productions for opposing counsel, federal agencies, and other authorized parties.

Litigation Support Specialist - CACI, International

(2022)

• Serve as the eDiscovery lead for the Chicago office of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), managing end-to-end litigation support and eDiscovery operations for confidential enforcement matters involving attorneys, investigators, and paralegals. Assigned to the CFTC Complex Fraud Division, supporting high-profile investigations including FTX, Binance, Three Arrows Capital, Polymarket, and other complex financial matters.
• Manage the full eDiscovery lifecycle, including data intake, processing, review workflows, quality control, productions, and data transfers while ensuring compliance with strict federal deadlines and CFTC-specific requirements.
• Administer Relativity workspaces, including saved searches, productions, analytics, user access, security groups, workspace configuration, and case-management workflows. Generate native and load-ready productions for opposing counsel, federal agencies, and other authorized parties.
• Design and implement Relativity analytics and document-review workflows to improve review efficiency and accuracy, including email threading, name normalization, textual near-duplicate analysis, search term reports, pivot exports, and other analytics and investigative tools.
• Manage sensitive and restricted information, including whistleblower, international financial agency, and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) data, establishing search and identification workflows and ensuring appropriate handling and flagging during production.
• Coordinate data transfers and source-data management, including FTP intake and export, access-grant documentation, secure transmission of CFTC records, and coordination with cooperative federal agencies.
• Administer Relativity users, workspaces, security settings, and case-management plugins; support implementation of new workspace templates and workflows and collaborate with Litigation Support Services leadership on training, documentation, and program-wide workflow improvements.
• Provide end-user training and technical support to CFTC attorneys, investigators, and paralegals on Relativity, Case Dynamics, Language Weaver, Transcript Manager, and Relativity analytics and review tools. Manage deposition transcript and exhibit intake and support preparation of exhibits and litigation materials for trials and federal administrative proceedings.
• Administer eLaw file-transfer infrastructure, including EFT Server and CuteFTP, and provide support for LexisNexis TextMap and CaseMap. Support eDiscovery counsel with litigation-hold administration and release processes for closed matters using EnCase and Westlaw.

eDiscovery Client Services Manager - Epiq

(2020 - 2022)

• Managed full-cycle client eDiscovery services in Epiq’s antitrust division, overseeing incoming and outgoing project data, collections, processing, and delivery of time-sensitive, highly confidential information.
• Recommended Relativity analytics and workflows and partnered with review project management teams on document-review batching, sampling, field editing, and other review functions.
• Led client kickoff and project calls, helping define eDiscovery scope, collection protocols, TAR strategy, and anticipated project metrics.
• Managed multiple concurrent projects and coordinated with client services teams to meet project deadlines, scope, and billing requirements.

Project Manager - Hire Counsel

(2017 - 2019)

• Served as onsite project manager for multiple Relativity-based eDiscovery reviews, supervising a team of 60 attorneys in nationwide opioid litigation involving Purdue and other litigants; managed review operations within a database exceeding 20 million documents and 50 defendants.
• Directed review teams on responsiveness and issue coding, disseminated review instructions across multiple pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors, monitored review metrics, and drove performance against time-sensitive deadlines.
• Performed quality-control checks and reviewer assessments; created Relativity searches and document folders to identify relevant and key documents for depositions.
• Prepared deposition memoranda highlighting key issues and documents while coordinating with client law firms and Ricoh USA to meet deadlines.

Legal Solutions Architect - Adecco

(2016 - 2017)

• Performed sales engineering and solution-design functions across the eDiscovery lifecycle, coordinating litigation, forensic, and vendor teams to develop efficient and cost-effective workflows.
• Scoped projects with consultants and clients and designed custom Relativity workflows for analytics, document loads, searches, and productions, including email threading, clustering, and categorization.

Team Lead - FTI Consulting - Miami, FL

(2013 - 2015)

• Conducted analytics and document review for FTC, SEC, and DOJ second requests, including relevance and issue coding for complex due-diligence and litigation matters.
• Served as team lead on court-ordered discovery, including Chevron v. Donziger; instructed reviewers on coding consistency and relevance, performed quality control, prepared QC reports, and selected reviewers for complex litigation projects.
• Performed large-scale searches, clustering, and data analysis to identify relevant and significant documents; prepared statistics and reports for management and used terms and connectors to support FTC merger-review deadlines.

Associate Attorney - Jacobson, Sobo & Moselle, PA - Plantation, FL

(2011 - 2012)

• Handled all phases of plaintiff-side litigation in consumer and business debt matters involving financial institutions, credit unions, and educational loan servicers, including investigation, drafting, and settlement.
• Investigated corporate entities, fictitious names, DBAs/AKAs, related parties, agents, and ownership structures; traced shell-company ownership and analyzed layering techniques involving trusts and other corporate forms.

Assistant Public Defender, Misdemeanor and Felony Divisions - Office of the Public Defender, Broward County - Fort Lauderdale, FL

(2005 - 2007)

Assistant Regional Counsel - Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, 4th DCA - Fort Lauderdale, FL

(2008 - 2010)

• Managed felony matters from intake through trial in a high-volume courtroom environment, first-chairing 26 jury trials and winning approximately two-thirds of cases reaching verdict.
• Conducted depositions of civilian victims, witnesses, and police officers in more than 200 cases; developed litigation strategy through investigation, discovery, motion practice, and evidentiary analysis.
• Counseled clients on litigation strategy and evidentiary issues and handled all phases of assigned life-felony matters, including complex motion practice in three independently assigned homicide cases.

Juris Doctor - University of Miami School of Law (2004)

Bachelor of Arts - Connecticut College (2000)