Anna-Maria Carson

Anna-Maria Carson

Senior Attorney
Washington, DC
About

As a member of DLA Piper’s Data Interrogation Team within the AI & Data Analytics practice, Anna-Maria focuses her practice on AI initiatives and conducts deep dive investigations into complex data sets using advanced analytics processes for data analysis, organization and extraction. Her practice includes matters such as internal investigations, proactive compliance and litigation support. She also participates in AI system assessments and supports the DLA Data Scientists with AI model development for governance, compliance and innovation. 

Anna-Maria has experience in AI system assessments, compliance monitoring, deep dive investigations and managing and supporting e-Discovery across numerous fields including complex business litigation, environmental and toxic tort litigation, intellectual property disputes, white collar investigations, M&A matters, complex energy litigation, commercial construction litigation and government investigations.

 
Areas of FocusArtificial Intelligence and Data AnalyticsLitigation, Arbitration and InvestigationseDiscovery and Information Management
Bar admissionsNew JerseyDistrict of Columbia

EXPERIENCE

  • Worked with the DLA Data Science Team on proactive compliance monitoring initiatives.
  • Engaged in internal investigations concerning compliance issues for a major corporate client.
  • Conducted extensive investigations for global companies, addressing matters ranging from internal reviews to responses to high-profile government inquiries.
  • Directed E-Discovery teams for large-scale productions supporting multiple intellectual property disputes on behalf of major consumer retailers.
  • Facilitated numerous complex litigation E-Discovery productions on a large scale.
  • Provided post-merger support for a major global retailer.

Pro Bono

  • Taught “Effective Writing” to Zambian law students as part of the New Perimeter’s ZIALE Zambia Teaching Project in 2023.
  • Assisted pro se Afghan asylum seekers in interview preparation.
  • Assisted refugee seekers in interview preparation for the International Refugee Assistance Project’s Central American Minors Program.
Education
  • J.D., Catholic University of America
  • B.A., Yale University

PriorExperience

Prior to joining DLA, Anna-Maria spent four years at another large law firm as part of the Fact Development Team. Prior to that, she spent thirteen years consulting for private trial attorneys on corporate litigation matters, for e-Discovery, and as an associate for a large family law firm in Washington, D.C. focused on divorce and custody (particularly same-sex partnership and custody agreements). She clerked for two years for Senior Associate Judge Judith Bartnoff of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Hispanic National Bar Association
  • American Bar Association Science & Technology Section
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Phone

+1 202 799 4506
(Work, Washington, DC)