Amlaw Firm Litigation Discovery Managing Attorney

Lexitas has a top, national law firm seeking Attorneys with 7 years (preferred) experience of supporting discovery needs for diverse clients in large, complex litigation matters, with the ability to manage discovery from start to finish. Must have managed projects.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Consulting, Review Support & Project Management Responsibilities

Investigate and develop a substantive understanding of assigned matters.

Complete document review projects including quality checks, fact-development support, privilege review and logging.

Summarize review progress and substantive findings in document sets including alerting merits counsel to key evidence, detecting deficiencies in collections and productions and highlighting relevant facts in support of investigations, preparation of witness kits and other projects as assigned and supervised by firm attorneys.

Consult on the design of managed review projects and supporting workflows including best use of technology and process.

Coordinate review team onboarding, training and management including drafting review protocols and other guidance. In coordination with firm attorneys, provide review teams substantive feedback on performance and provide re-training where needed.

Define, assess, track and report key metrics, quality standards, decisions and changes in scope to ensure reviews are completed on time, with appropriate quality checks and within budget.

Coordinate activities and communications related to review work-streams including: partnering with internal project managers, analysts, paralegals and attorneys; setting agendas and running project meetings; and determining project requirements, schedules and deliverables.

Contribute to departmental publications, presentations and documentation creation. Train, QC and update case teams and department as required.

Technical Responsibilities

Provide hands-on support in Relativity and other litigation technology toolsets for a variety of requests, including: advanced search design, implementation and validation; creation and support of document review batching and production workflows; privilege log design and management.

Perform final quality control and assurance on deliverables to case teams, clients and third parties.

Consult with case team members on the use of customized litigation support apps and tools.

Qualifications & Requirements

A successful Discovery Advisor will have a strong combination of the following consulting, review support project management and technical experience, capabilities and knowledge.

Consulting, Review Support & Project Management Required

Thorough knowledge of the litigation lifecycle and eDiscovery processes.

A minimum of 7 years of experience supporting the design and management of complex document review projects including management of contract attorneys, use of analytics, review and reporting of key performance and progress metrics.

Substantial experience with Relativity and proficient ability to review documents, maximize efficiencies in the tool, and perform defensible searches.

Ability to effectively liaise with multiple case teams, clients, litigation support teams, document review services and vendors, to define the project’s scope, goals and objectives and develop efficient plans for achieving these tasks.

Consulting, Review Support & Project Management - Preferred

Experience consulting case teams and clients on best practices related to data collection, privacy, information governance and security.

Ability to manage complex litigation and diverse client data from preservation through review, production, creation of privilege logs, deposition and trial support.

Experience training case teams on analytics use and other eDiscovery best practices.

Significant experience using TAR protocols and other review tools.

Significant experience with conducting legal research, supporting deposition preparation, motions practice and trial is a plus but not a requirement.

Technical - Required

A minimum of 7 years of hands on experience with leading eDiscovery review platforms with an emphasis on complex search construction and results validation, design of optimized review workflows including document batching.

A minimum of 3 years of experience supporting early case assessment steps to defensibly cull document volumes and identify potential gaps in data collections or incoming productions.

Technical - Preferred

A minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience with the use of TAR and other analytics (Brain Space, NexLP) with an emphasis on the use of CAL/CMML and other techniques for deduplication, email threading, review prioritization, sampling, production quality control, privilege identification and other predictive models.

Mandarin is a plus!

Juris Doctorate required. The attorney can work in Boston, DC, NYC or the Chicago Office. The position is hybrid.

This position requires some weekend and after-hours support and may require occasional travel.