About Spark.

Sara Perkins Jones

Sara Jones is a practicing litigator in Boston with 10 years of eDiscovery experience in civil litigation.

Sara began her career at an AmLaw 100 firm, where she learned from attorneys, paralegals, and litigation technology analysts how to manage document collection, review, and production for civil matters and government investigations. In 2019, she moved to a smaller Boston firm to represent insurance policyholders in coverage disputes, and assisted teams across the firm with eDiscovery issues.

Sara founded Spark in 2022 with the goal of helping small and mid-sized litigation firms realize all the benefits of eDiscovery technology, while avoiding the pitfalls.

Sara is a Certified E-Discovery Specialist and a member of ACEDS. Clients rely on Sara for her practical advice, technical savvy, and will-do attitude.

Sara lives outside of Boston with her spouse, their eight-year-old daughter, and a border collie mix who will never give up trying to herd them. The image above is of her actual desk.

EXPERIENCE

ANDERSON & KREIGER LLP, BOSTON, Massachusetts, 2019-2022

As a senior associate in the firm’s insurance practice and its litigation group, Sara represented corporate policyholders in coverage disputes with insurers over first- and third-party coverage; defended a major captive medical malpractice insurer facing a claim of bad-faith failure to settle; advised other practice groups and clients on insurance issues; and managed communications with insurers in order to obtain coverage for the firm’s litigation and environmental work.

Sara managed eDiscovery on a number of cases across the firm. In that capacity, she helped attorneys and clients navigate common (and not so common) pitfalls, including: collection of archived emails from legacy systems; transfer of a document review database between two review system vendors; inadvertent production clawbacks; and mid-review changes to responsiveness decisions affecting large swaths of documents.

Sara advised clients on the legal standards for the use of technology to prioritize documents for review and to cut off review of non-responsive documents. She successfully defended motions to compel the production of privileged and work product material.

ROPES & GRAY LLP, BOSTON, Massachusetts, 2013-2019

Beginning as a summer associate in 2011, Sara worked on cases across Ropes’ diverse litigation & enforcement practice, including: international internal investigations; SEC examinations, investigations, and enforcement actions; securities and other class action defense; insurance coverage arbitrations; and employment, contract, and trade secret disputes.

Sara started out as a member of review teams on large document-intensive cases. Later, as a mid-level and senior associate, she managed her own reviews, prepared discovery requests and responses, negotiated discovery issues with opposing counsel, and took depositions.

SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT, BOSTON, Massachusetts, 2012-2013 (Clerk for Duffly, J.)

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, BOSTON, Massachusetts, J.D. 2012

BROWN UNIVERSITY, PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, A.B. 2006