Job#: 7602 Litigation & Practice Technology Project Manager
Base salary range $150K-$170K/yr + up to 10% annual bonus + up to 5% annual salary increase + Company funded retirement savings 7.5% - 13.2%
NOT OPEN TO 3RD PARTY RECRUITERS LOOKING TO PLACE RESOURCES ON C2C CONTRACTS
My client is one of the world’s leading law firms that serves a broad range of clients with market-leading practices in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and government, regulatory and internal investigations. They bring innovation and entrepreneurialism to every engagement and, as a result, have long-standing client relationships with leading global corporations and financial sponsors. With 6,500 employees (including 3,500 lawyers) operating from 20 offices across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, they are one of the largest law firms in the world and a top financial performer. They are looking for a full-time employee to work onsite 100% in their Chicago office to work as a Litigation & Practice Technology Project Manager.
Responsibilities:
- Support assessment and selection of eDiscovery and Managed Review providers.
- Assist with the management of external service providers and any required problem-solving or troubleshooting. Help identify opportunities for improved use of technology or process to gain efficiencies and meet best practices.
- Coordinate communications and document decisions related to technical work-streams including running project meetings, determining requirements, schedules, deliverables and quality standards.
- Provide hands-on support in Relativity, Brainspace and other litigation technology toolsets for a variety of requests, including: case creation; field and coding layout creation; strategic application of TAR and other analytics; advanced search design, implementation and validation; creation and support of document review and production workflows; privilege log design and management; complaint data and exhibit management.
- Advise on and coordinate development of key specifications (e.g., data processing and exception handling) with case teams and internal LPT Operations team. Assess and address any issues found in reporting related to data processing, exception handling or completeness of data collection.
Qualifications:
- Must be US Citizen
- A minimum of 3 years of hands on experience with leading eDiscovery review platforms (Relativity, DISCO, Recommind) with an emphasis on database setup, complex search construction and results validation, design of optimized review workflows including document batching.
- A minimum of 1 year of hands on experience with the use of TAR and other analytics (BrainSpace, 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.
- A minimum of 1 year of experience supporting early case assessment steps to defensibly cull document volumes and identify potential gaps in data collections or incoming productions.
- Thorough knowledge of the litigation lifecycle and eDiscovery processes.
- A minimum of 3 years of experience managing multiple projects and priorities in a timely fashion, simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy, professionalism and client-service orientation.
- Preferred Relativity Certified Administrator (RCA); BrainSpace Analyst Certification
Location:
- 100% on-site in Chicago office
