Discovery Attorney (Am Law 100)

Practice Area

eDiscovery, Law Firm

Location

(Remote), Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Silicon Valley, Washington, DC

Position Type

Attorney

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Description


Our client, a prominent Am Law 100 is looking for Discovery Attorneys who have a minimum of eight years of experience in supporting discovery needs for diverse clients in complex litigation. The role requires managing ediscovery from start to finish, including experience technical experience working in Relativity. A Juris Doctorate is mandatory.

 

Discovery Attorneys must possess a mix of consulting, review, and technical project management experience. As a Discovery Attorney, you will investigate and develop an in-depth understanding of the assigned matters. You will be responsible for completing document review projects, including quality checks, fact development support, privilege review, and logging, and summarizing review progress and substantive findings in document sets. You will also offer consulting services for the design of managed review projects and supporting workflows, coordinate review team onboarding, training, and management, and provide substantive feedback on performance.

 

In addition, you will 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. You will also contribute to departmental publications, presentations, and documentation creation, train, QC, and update case teams and the department as required, and provide hands-on support in Relativity and other litigation technology toolsets for a variety of requests.

 

A successful Discovery Attorney will have a strong combination of consulting, review support project management, and technical experience. They will have thorough knowledge of the litigation lifecycle and eDiscovery processes, and experience consulting case teams and clients on best practices related to data collection, privacy, information governance, and security.

 

The ideal candidate will have a track record of designing and managing complex document review projects, including overseeing contract attorneys, using analytics, reviewing, and reporting key performance and progress metrics. They should also have substantial experience with Relativity and the ability to review documents, maximize efficiencies in the tool, and perform defensible searches.

 

Other requirements include the ability to manage complex litigation and diverse client data from preservation through review, production, creation of privilege logs, deposition and trial support, train case teams on analytics use and other eDiscovery best practices, and use TAR protocols and other review tools.

 

The ideal candidate should have a positive attitude, the ability to express thoughts, ideas, and information clearly and compellingly, and the ability to identify problems, research and analyze them, determine alternative solutions, and create action steps to solve them. They should also be able to think and act quickly, work independently and as part of a cross-office team, and build relationships.