Description:
Description:Staff Counsel - eDiscovery Review Manager
The Staff Counsel - eDiscovery Review Manager provides project management and consultation on document review projects for FMG attorneys and clients. The Staff Counsel - eDiscovery Review Manager must have a strong understanding of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model and a high level of proficiency with the technologies used to increase efficiencies, drive down costs, and deliver exceptional service to our clients. The Staff Counsel - eDiscovery Review Manager must be able to effectively maintain a caseload including multiple active projects, as well as serve as the primary contact for Document Review Attorneys. The Staff Counsel - eDiscovery Review Manager will also act as a liaison between FMG and outside discovery vendors as necessary.
The Staff Counsel - eDiscovery Review Manager will exhibit exemplary professional behavior while providing the appropriate level of consultation and expertise. The Staff Counsel - eDiscovery Review Manager role demonstrates a blend of technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills as well as empathy and compassion, creating a positive culture and work environment for their team, including as it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Essential Job Functions:
- Serve as primary point of contact for document review projects.
- Conduct project design meetings and consult with attorneys on the development and implementation of efficient and effective workflows.
- Determine and manage expectations regarding deliverables and timeframes.
- Draft workflow protocols and substantive training guidelines in partnership with case team.
- Implement workflows within various document review platforms, including the creation of batch sets, fields, choices, layouts, views, rules, security, persistent highlighting sets, and search term reports.
- Leverage the appropriate technology to improve productivity and accuracy, including the use of structured and conceptual analytics such as email threading, near-duplicate identification, and clustering.
- Consult on application of artificial intelligence to identify documents for review and managing review teams whose review will be used to build algorithms and models.
- Execute quality control and quality assurance best practices
- Communicate and document substantive issues to the case team as they arise.
- Monitor and report on overall progress, productivity, and accuracy of the project
- Lead and motivate review teams, including lawyers and non-lawyers.
- Train users on the use of document review platforms, including best practices for compliant productions.
- Coordinate case team quality control with review teams and clients.
- Generate and deliver additional deliverables such as privilege logs.
- Assist Document Review attorneys with review as needed.
- Juris Doctorate (JD) degree and valid/active state bar association admission in any US jurisdiction.
- 3-5 years of experience in a document review or document review management role in a law firm or managed review vendor company.
- Understanding of concepts, principles, management, processing, review, analysis and production of electronically stored information (ESI) as they relate to legal matters.
- Extensive experience with the administration of document review databases, including Relativity.
- Familiarity with concepts and application of statistical sampling, email threading, near duplicate identification, clustering, and predictive coding.
- Experienced in implementing analytics-driven methodologies, including, but not limited to, standard active learning and continuous active learning.
- Experienced in leveraging structured and conceptual analytics to search, prioritize, and organize data.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and the use of formulas, pivot tables, and basic formatting.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including experience leading conference calls and meetings with colleagues and clients.
- Excellent issue spotting and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Willingness to go above and beyond client expectations.
