Whitfield v. Delta Supply Co.|employment · ADEA / Title VII|filed 2025-02-11|Discovery
Key dates & deadlines
Event
Owner
Due
Status
Opposition to MSJ due
K. Reyes
2025-07-21
8 days
Expert disclosure deadline
K. Reyes
2025-08-04
On track
Discovery cutoff
Team
2025-09-12
On track
Pretrial conference
Team
2025-11-03
Scheduled
Open tasks 4
Task
Assigned
Priority
Status
Draft opposition brief to summary judgment
K. Reyes
High
In progress
Confirm comparator ages — pull from personnel records
Paralegal
High
Open
OCR & classify 2 pending comp-letter pages
Records
Med
Open
Retain damages expert — economic loss model
K. Reyes
Med
Open
Team & billing
Timekeeper
Role
Rate
Hours (MTD)
K. Reyes
Lead attorney
$425
38.4
M. Cho
Associate
$285
52.1
D. Alvarez
Paralegal
$145
27.6
Deadlines sync from the court calendar; tasks and time entries flow to Billables. Case Management is the operational layer; Evaluations is the analytical one.
214 documents|classified into the four indexes|2 need OCR
Client documents 41
Document
Type
Date
Bates
Status
Offer letter — Whitfield employment agreement
Contract
2011-08-14
—
OK
Performance review — 2023
HR record
2024-01-09
—
OK
Termination letter
HR record
2024-06-02
—
OK
Compensation statements 2022–2024 (scanned)
Financial
—
—
OCR pending
Discovery — ours 28
Document
Type
Date
Bates
Status
Plaintiff — Responses to First Set of Interrogatories
Discovery response
2025-05-02
P000001–000048
OK
Plaintiff — Responses to Requests for Production
Discovery response
2025-05-02
P000049–000132
OK
Discovery — opposing · Delta Supply Co. 118
Document
Type
Date
Bates
Status
Defendant — Production Set 1
Production
2025-04-18
D000001–000142
OK
Defendant — Responses to Interrogatories
Discovery response
2025-04-18
—
OK
4 un-OCR'd pages in a comp-letter gap — may be damages-relevant
Unidentified
—
D000098–000101
OCR pending
Pleadings 27
Document
Party
Date
Bates
Status
Complaint (ADEA / Title VII)
Plaintiff
2025-02-11
—
OK
Answer & Affirmative Defenses
Defendant
2025-03-14
—
OK
Motion for Summary Judgment
Defendant
2025-04-30
—
OK
Classification & normalized names are maintained per document (bucket · type · party · date · Bates · privilege). Correspondence backfill from Front and the batch fact-pull run are the next pipeline passes.
Uncontested facts
Whitfield was employed by Delta Supply Co. from Aug 2011 to Jun 2024.1
Whitfield was 58 years old at the time of termination.2
Delta cited a "reduction in force" as the stated reason for termination.3
Contested facts
Whether the RIF was a pretext for age discrimination.
Our evidence
Two employees under 40 retained in the same role after the RIF.4
Their evidence
Contemporaneous budget-cut memo naming the eliminated positions.5
Whether the 2023 bonus cap applied to Whitfield's compensation.
Our evidence
Offer letter fixing bonus terms with no cap.6
Their evidence
Revised compensation policy circulated in 2023.7
Evidence ledger
Exhibit
What it proves
Admissibility risk
Relied on by
P-Ex 3 — Offer letter
Bonus terms & no cap
Low
Contested #2
D-Ex 12 — Budget memo
RIF rationale
Hearsay · foundation
Contested #1
Whitfield Dep. 42:3–18
Employment timeline
Low
Uncontested #1
Unsupported-assertion flags
⚑
Our brief asserts "comparators were substantially younger," but there is no admissible evidence of comparator ages in the corpus. UNVERIFIED — pull and confirm.
⚑
Cite to 29 U.S.C. § 623(a) is not yet anchored to a pulled authority in the corpus. UNVERIFIED — pull and confirm.
1 Whitfield Dep. 42:3–18 · 2 Personnel file, DOB · 3 Termination letter (2024-06-02) · 4 Def. org chart, post-RIF · 5 D-Ex 12 · 6 P-Ex 3 · 7 Def. policy, D000071. Every assertion anchors to a pinpoint quote; anything not in the corpus is flagged UNVERIFIED.
Run an evaluation
Pre-engagement Intake
Assess a prospect before engagement — preliminary strengths / weaknesses, facts still needed, and a draft scope of work. Lives in the Intake console.
Web: strategy-only
Ongoing
Adversarial engine: a blind opposing-counsel pass finds the dispositive weakness, then findings are organized by lens — assertions, evidence, procedural, consistency.
Web: strategy-only · facts corpus-only
Post-case Pilot
Full corpus + outcome → our strong / weak points vs. opposing counsel's play, what we'd do differently, and app-feature suggestions filed to Admin.
Web: none · corpus-only
Reports
Report
Mode
Version
Generated
Post-case evaluation — Whitfield
Post-case
v2
Jul 08
Adversarial pass — MSJ response
Ongoing
v1
Jun 30
Every report is versioned, dated, and stamped Attorney Work Product — Draft. Nothing here is ever emailed; multi-pass runs (advocate → blind adversary → judge) are metered and shown in Ops.
Advisory drafts only|every proposed request carries the contested fact or gap it targets
Proposed requests
Request for Production — comparator personnel files for all employees retained in Whitfield's role after the RIF.
Targets · Contested fact #1 (pretext) · comparator-age evidence gap
Interrogatory — state the selection criteria and decision-makers for the June 2024 reduction in force.
Targets · Contested fact #1 (pretext)
Request for Admission — admit the 2023 compensation policy was circulated after Whitfield's offer letter.
Targets · Contested fact #2 (bonus cap)
Response drafting
Draft response to Defendant's RFP No. 14 — grounded in our vetted production (P000001–000132).