Sangeeta Kuruppillai

Sangeeta Kuruppillai is an eDiscovery Associate in the Environmental Litigation Group at Baron & Budd. She specializes in mass tort litigation and has almost 16 years of extensive eDiscovery experience at the firm conducting substantive reviews of client, defendant and third-party documents, the creation of timelines and compilation of key facts, deposition and trial related preparatory work, and the creation, review and dispute of privilege logs.

Ms. Kuruppillai started with Baron & Budd in 2010 reviewing discovery documents for cases involving atrazine, an herbicide used for weed control in farm crops that has been linked to prostate and breast cancer and is thought to be causing declines of endangered amphibians. Since then, Ms. Kuruppillai has worked on a variety of cases, including pharmaceutical cases related to the drug Avandia, and the MyFord Touch litigation, an in-car communication system believed to put drivers at risk of an accident.

However, much of Ms. Kuruppillai’s work is related to the claims of public entities related to wildfires and environmental contamination. She has performed document review-related work for a long list of environmental cases, including cases pertaining to chemicals such as PCB, MTBE, GenX and PFAS. Ms. Kuruppillai showcases her electronically stored information (ESI) experience by managing other attorneys and staff members in document analysis, review, and production. Yet her true talent lies in detail-oriented tasks such as privilege log analysis, assisting litigators in preparation for depositions and trial, and compiling data into dossiers or timelines to tell the story of a case. Currently, Ms. Kuruppillai is working on contamination cases involving forever chemicals such as PFOA/PFOS, and the Eaton Fire in California. Of her work she says, “I enjoy helping put the pieces of a puzzle together to establish a case against offenders of mass tort, like water contamination and defective products.”

Before coming to Baron & Budd, Ms. Kuruppillai spent twelve years as an Assistant City Attorney at the Dallas City Attorney’s Office in Texas, defending city management in race and other employment discrimination cases. She also worked as a Claims Attorney for Great American Insurance Group and as Manager of the Civil Division and Chief Deputy in the Dallas County Clerk’s Office. At Baron & Budd, Ms. Kuruppillai also worked for a year and a half in the firm’s Employment group, preparing motions and performing pre-trial and trial work relating to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), using the skills she honed as an assistant city attorney to represent clients at Baron & Budd who have been hurt by large companies.

Ms. Kuruppillai chose a career in law because she wanted to make a constructive difference in people’s lives. Her work in our Environmental Litigation Group allows her to make a significant impact on the lives of our clients and to positively affect our fragile environment at the same time.