Project Manager (Am Law 100)

Practice Area

eDiscovery, Law Firm

Location

(Remote), Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Washington, DC

Position Type

Project Management

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Description

 

Are you interested in joining a highly respected and progressive Am Law 100 as an eDiscovery Project Manager? The ideal candidate will have at least five years of project management experience at an Am Law 100, service provider or consulting firm. A bachelor’s degree is preferred. This role is eligible for overtime and requires a thorough understanding of eDiscovery and analytics.


Experience with Relativity is key. Preferably, you will have a Relativity Certified Administrator (RCA) and Brainspace Analyst Certifications, but it is not necessary if you have the required experience, including a thorough understanding of the metrics and terminology used to support and explain TAR or the use of CAL/CMML and other techniques for deduplication, email threading, review prioritization, sampling, production quality control, privilege identification, and other predictive models.


This role requires hands-on support in Relativity and Brainspace. The responsibilities include creating cases, field and coding layouts, strategic application of TAR and other analytics, advanced search design, implementation, and validation, creation and support of document review and production workflows, and privilege log design and management with an emphasis on database setup, complex search construction, and results validation, design of optimized review workflows including document batching.


The project manager will work closely with various internal case team members and eDiscovery and Managed Review providers. They will advise on and coordinate the development of key specifications (e.g., data processing and exception handling) with case teams and internal teams. They will also assess and address any issues found in reporting related to data processing, exception handling, or data collection completeness. 


The project manager will perform final quality control and assurance on deliverables to case teams, clients, and third parties. You will consult with case team members on the use of customized apps and tools, assist with analyzing and testing new versions of software, and troubleshoot and escalate issues as needed. 


The pm will coordinate communications and document decisions related to technical workstreams, including running project meetings and determining requirements, schedules, deliverables, and quality control. They will consult on and document data identification, preservation, and collection procedures.


The project manager will also contribute to departmental publications, presentations, training, and documentation.