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Lexitas Legal Talent Solutions · 2 days ago

Amlaw 100 Firm Litigation Discovery Managing Attorney -Direct Hire

Boston, MA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$190K/yr - $250K/yr

7+ years exp

Lexitas is a top, national law firm seeking a Litigation Discovery Managing Attorney with extensive experience in managing discovery for complex litigation matters. The role involves overseeing document review projects, coordinating review teams, and providing technical support in litigation technology tools.

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Hiring Manager

Michelle Walczyk

Responsibilities

Investigate and develop a substantive understanding of assigned matters

Complete document review projects including quality checks, fact-development support, privilege review and logging

Summarize review progress and substantive findings in document sets including alerting merits counsel to key evidence, detecting deficiencies in collections and productions and highlighting relevant facts in support of investigations, preparation of witness kits and other projects as assigned and supervised by firm attorneys

Consult on the design of managed review projects and supporting workflows including best use of technology and process

Coordinate review team onboarding, training and management including drafting review protocols and other guidance. In coordination with firm attorneys, provide review teams substantive feedback on performance and provide re-training where needed

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

Coordinate activities and communications related to review work-streams including: partnering with internal project managers, analysts, paralegals and attorneys; setting agendas and running project meetings; and determining project requirements, schedules and deliverables

Contribute to departmental publications, presentations and documentation creation. Train, QC and update case teams and department as required

Provide hands-on support in Relativity and other litigation technology toolsets for a variety of requests, including: advanced search design, implementation and validation; creation and support of document review batching and production workflows; privilege log design and management

Perform final quality control and assurance on deliverables to case teams, clients and third parties

Consult with case team members on the use of customized litigation support apps and tools

Qualification

EDiscovery processesRelativityDocument review managementTAR protocolsProject managementConsulting skillsLegal researchTraining abilitiesMandarin

Required

Thorough knowledge of the litigation lifecycle and eDiscovery processes

A minimum of 7 years of experience supporting the design and management of complex document review projects including management of contract attorneys, use of analytics, review and reporting of key performance and progress metrics

Substantial experience with Relativity and proficient ability to review documents, maximize efficiencies in the tool, and perform defensible searches

Ability to effectively liaise with multiple case teams, clients, litigation support teams, document review services and vendors, to define the project's scope, goals and objectives and develop efficient plans for achieving these tasks

A minimum of 7 years of hands on experience with leading eDiscovery review platforms with an emphasis on complex search construction and results validation, design of optimized review workflows including document batching

A minimum of 3 years of experience supporting early case assessment steps to defensibly cull document volumes and identify potential gaps in data collections or incoming productions

Juris Doctorate required

Preferred

Experience consulting case teams and clients on best practices related to data collection, privacy, information governance and security

Ability to manage complex litigation and diverse client data from preservation through review, production, creation of privilege logs, deposition and trial support

Experience training case teams on analytics use and other eDiscovery best practices

Significant experience using TAR protocols and other review tools

Significant experience with conducting legal research, supporting deposition preparation, motions practice and trial is a plus but not a requirement

A minimum of 3 years 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

Mandarin is a plus!