Mr. Kelly specializes in matters involving complex data manipulation and analysis of disparate data sets to provide comprehensive, data-driven insights. He also has years of experience working with semi-structured data and creating pipelines / automating processes for ensuing analyses. Examples of prior engagements include:

• A Price Fixing allegation where he supported a Joint Defense Group. Mr. Kelly developed scripts to capture key details from communications existing across thousands of semi-structured PDF documents, created a pipeline for systematic and repeatable transfer to a centralized database, and performed analysis to identify key communications between relevant parties.
• An Investigation for a large Social Media Company into potential Data Privacy and Compliance issues. Mr. Kelly’s team established a risk-based approach to identify third parties that could have accessed a significant amount of data – one aspect of this review involved Mr. Kelly creating an algorithm to determine high-risk third parties based on trends in historical activity on the company’s platform.
• Data Management for the Recovery of over $800M in fees from a 15-year International Litigation. Mr. Kelly programmatically transposed narrative information, identified outliers / issues for counsel review, and prepped for detailed tagging and claim confirmation. Mr. Kelly managed data receipt from multiple parties and led a large team in confirming manual data extraction and reconciliation for supplement to the award.
• An International Anti-Money Laundering Investigation into account populations and transaction history. Mr. Kelly assisted with the development and implementation of key custom tools / approaches used to classify potential accounts associated with individuals of interest based on KYC information and historical activity (customer and transaction screening).
• Analysis of Historical Lending Activity of a large online driven bank for Compliance with Fair Lending requirements.
• A review of hundreds of Gigabytes of data in varying nested formats (CSV, JSON, and XML / HTML) included in a Data Breach to identify the breadth of potential PII / account information exposed.
• An Investigation into account activity of all users on a Cryptocurrency Platform for actions potentially indicative of insider information surrounding key transactional dates.

Mr. Kelly’s primary technical proficiencies include Python, SQL, and Tableau.