eDiscovery Project Coordinator
$95,000–$142,000 year
On-siteWashington, District of Columbia, United States
Job Summary
Coordinate technical and legal aspects for assigned electronic discovery projects, serving as the primary liaison between the legal team and contractors throughout the discovery lifecycle. Develop project plans covering data collection, processing, document review, and production while overseeing statistical reports on collection, filtering, and production metrics. Advise the legal team on technology options for early case assessment and document search, ensuring standard procedures are consistently applied across the case life. Prepare affidavits, testify on the defensibility of the eDiscovery process, and conduct briefings on emerging technologies and process improvements. Manage workflow tasks including search query construction and quality control, develop cost estimates to maximize efficiencies, and provide regular status reports to stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years' experience providing eDiscovery services and litigation support on complex and large cases involving complex eDiscovery challenges
- Must have demonstrated exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Must have experience handling financial crimes/non-compliance cases
- Must possess detailed planning and organizational skills and have a thorough understanding of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM); especially data collection, review, analytics and production
- Must possess solid, broad knowledge of Information Technology infrastructures including networks and other sources of data
- Prior knowledge and experience managing eDiscovery projects and related technologies required
- Advanced experience planning eDiscovery efforts, managing client expectations, and working with clients to minimize their risk exposure
- Must be proficient in a wide range of technologies and be knowledgeable as to eDiscovery industry best practices including an understanding of multiple tools and processes associated with large scale complex eDiscovery response
- Must have general knowledge of forensics
- Must have expertise in all search related technology (terms, prompts, AI, etc.)
- Must have expertise in litigation technology tool usage (Relativity, Nuix, Axiom, etc.)
- Must be highly organized and a problem solver
- Must establish compliance with all directives for secured handling of documents
- Must have proven ability to work in a fast-paced production environment while maintaining proper priorities and scheduling on extremely tight deadlines
- Must work as part of a team be able to manage complex relationships with all stakeholders
- Must be well organized, a strong communicator, detail oriented, demonstrate good judgment, be confident working independently
- Must be able to obtain and maintain MRPT facility credentials/authorization
- US Citizenship is required for MRPT facility credentials/authorization at this work location
- Undergraduate degree and graduate degrees strongly preferred along with eDiscovery related technical certifications
- Certification in eDiscovery program preferred
- Substantial relevant experience may in some cases be substituted for degree requirement
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