Senior Advisor, Digital Collections

Job Description

We are a global law firm with a powerful strategic focus and real momentum. Our industry‑focused strategy is seeing us take on pioneering work in places that others have yet to reach. Our shared values define our culture and our workplace. You will find us to be unusually collegial, team‑oriented, and ready to innovate. We work seamlessly across practices, offices and around the world.

This elimination of boundaries has allowed us to evolve into a law firm that works as hard for its culture as it does for its clients.

As an early adopter of advanced eDiscovery technology and methodologies, the Firm’s Global eDiscovery Services group provides strategic services to our disputes lawyers and clients. Working alongside other talented professionals, you’ll be surrounded by an open and collaborative culture that embraces recognition and professional development.

Recognizing the impact of the emerging cloud‑based data sources on discovery, the NRF eDiscovery team is early to build on a position dedicated to the preservation, collection and protection of digital evidence in connection to litigation and regulatory matters. In coordination with eDiscovery Services leadership, the Senior Advisor will be pivotal in implementing and actioning strategic and defensible preservation and collection plans for all eDiscovery projects.

As a Senior Advisor, your role will be central to evaluating client IT environments and offering recommendations on the technical measures required to preserve and collect digital information in connection to discovery obligations. This involves engaging with clients, client IT and retained vendors, and collaborating closely with senior managers and NRF lawyers. The Senior Advisor will play a pivotal role in ensuring sound digital collections from both cloud and on‑premise sources, overseeing evidence intake and upholding the security of original client evidence.

This position is full‑time remote and can therefore be located in any city where we have a US office. Flexibility to come to the office for trainings or meetings is required.

• Lead client‑facing IT interviews to document client IT infrastructure, identify preservation requirements and design defensible collection strategies
• Serve as an advisor to case teams, clients, and vendors on best practices for digital evidence preservation and collections
• Oversee and manage forensic vendors to ensure industry‑standard methodologies for acquiring, recovering, and preserving evidence from endpoints, servers, cloud services, and mobile devices.
• Collaborate with clients and case teams to apply legal holds and execute and guide collections from enterprise systems such as M365 Purview, Google Vault/Workspace, Slack, and other collaboration and document management platforms
• Provide consultative guidance to case teams to advise on client in‑house eDiscovery capabilities, search construction and preservation and collection approaches
• Maintain meticulous documentation of evidence handling, including chain of custody forms, intake records and collection notes
• Coordinate and manage secure intake of physical media and digital collections
• Partner with leadership to refine preservation and collection playbooks, workflows, and best practices as data sources and cloud applications evolve
• Remain current with emerging data sources, forensic tools, and evolving preservation and collection trends
• Contribute to project management tasks, including reporting, workflow improvement, and cross‑team collaboration

• Continue to grow and refine the department’s preservation and data collection service model
• Work directly with industry leaders and lawyers in the Firm’s Information Governance, Cyber and eDiscovery practices
• Participate in SMART goal initiatives focused on professional development and achieving career objectives

Other duties:
Please note this job description does not cover or contain all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field…