Senior Project Manager - E-Data Consulting Group - Boston

The Project Manager ("PM") acts as the liaison between the attorneys, clients, technical staff, and eDiscovery service providers. Operating as an in-house consultant, the PM communicates with attorneys and clients to understand their needs and balances the demands of the attorneys, clients, and technical staff to provide the best possible cost-effective, automated approach to litigation management. The PM is the primary point of contact for case teams requiring litigation support tools and/or services, including matters that increasingly rely on advanced analytics, generative AI, and digital forensics workflows across the EDRM lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Perform client billable support services, including advising legal teams and clients with respect to collection, processing, review, and production of electronically stored information (ESI).
• Perform all Relativity database functions, including designing and loading databases, assigning security, configuring and applying TAR and analytics, supervising batch and port process, maintenance, and upgrades.
• Provide consulting to attorneys and clients on eDiscovery issues in consultation with the E-Data Consulting Group ("EDCG") management, including matter-specific guidance on intellectual property litigations (such as patent, trade secret, and copyright disputes) involving source code productions, technical document collections, and heightened confidentiality and protective order requirements.
• Work with EDCG management to ensure that case teams are using appropriate, innovative, efficient, and cost-effective technologies to manage the discovery process, including evaluating, piloting, and operationalizing generative AI and large language model capabilities within Relativity and other review platforms, and advising attorneys on the defensible and ethical use of such tools.
• Manage vendors on a project basis to assure that high-quality data deliverables and services are provided within negotiated schedules and budgets.
• Coordinate the collection, processing, review, and production of paper and electronic discovery, including coordinating with internal and third-party computer forensics specialists to ensure defensible identification, preservation, and chain-of-custody for ESI collected from custodian devices, enterprise systems, mobile devices, and cloud-based sources.
• Apply quality control processes and improvements for the discovery process.
• Conduct training and advise legal staff members on the efficient use of Relativity and other litigation tools, including emerging generative AI features, in consultation with EDCG management.
• Review and analyze vendor bills in consultation with EDCG management and manage communications with case teams concerning same.
• Participate in industry-specific organizations and stay current with developments in litigation support, including case law and emerging guidance on the use of AI in discovery.
• Help develop best practices, policies, and procedures to ensure the efficient and consistent delivery of eDiscovery services to the firm's attorneys.
• Ability to travel as necessary.
• Assume additional responsibilities as requested.
• This role requires 60% in-office presence; remote work is permissible 40% of the time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Five or more years of litigation support experience in a project management role.
• Prior experience working in a law firm litigation support department using an automated litigation support system required.
• Demonstrated expertise with litigation technology applications and understanding of the discovery process as well as analytics, AI, and TAR.
• Hands-on experience leveraging generative AI and large language model tools in the eDiscovery workflow - for example, in early case assessment, accelerated document review, privilege screening, or document summarization - is a strong plus, including the ability to evaluate where such tools succeed and fail and to advise legal teams on safe, ethical, and defensible implementation.
• Working familiarity with computer forensics concepts and defensible forensic data collection practices - including chain of custody, preservation protocols, forensic…