eDiscovery Attorney

Overview

This role provides US-qualified legal advice and sign-off on privilege, disclosure obligations, and legal risk within eDiscovery strategy for litigation matters, investigations, and regulatory cases. The position works closely with the eDiscovery team on operational strategy and supports matter teams across the eDiscovery lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Provide US-qualified legal advice and legal sign-off on privilege, disclosure obligations, and legal risk within eDiscovery strategy for litigation matters, investigations, and regulatory cases, working with the eDiscovery team on operational strategy.
• Coordinate with the eDiscovery team to integrate legal input into existing strategy, best-practice, and vendor-management functions.
• Support matter teams with planning and execution of document preservation, collection, processing, review, analysis, and production workflows.
• Provide legal sign-off confirming that review and production strategies developed with the eDiscovery team are proportionate, cost-effective, and aligned with relevant legal and procedural requirements.
• Liaise with partners, associates, clients, vendors, forensic specialists, and review teams to coordinate reviews and productions.
• Provide legal review and sign-off on document review and production protocols and associated training prepared by the eDiscovery team.
• Advise on the legal defensibility of review tools, analytics, technology-assisted review, and other eDiscovery technologies selected and operated by the eDiscovery team.
• Assist matter teams with review planning, including reviewer training, escalation routes, quality control, and consistency checks.
• Prepare matter updates, status reports, and metrics for internal teams and clients.
• Advise on legal and regulatory compliance considerations in external provider and client relationships managed by the eDiscovery team.
• Contribute legal input to internal best practices, playbooks, templates, and training on document review, production, and eDiscovery processes owned by the eDiscovery team.
• Monitor legal, procedural, and technological developments relevant to eDiscovery and share practical insights with teams.

Qualifications & Experience

• Self-starter with a strong ownership mindset and ability to develop the role within the context of the service required.
• High degree of initiative.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and confidence working with staff at all levels.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong organizational skills with a pragmatic approach.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple deadlines and stakeholders.
• Confidence working with legal teams, clients, data specialists, and external vendors.
• US qualified lawyer with a minimum of ten years post qualification experience.
• Experience advising on eDiscovery, reviews and productions, and investigations.
• Strong understanding of the e-discovery lifecycle, including preservation, collection, review, and production.
• Familiarity with relevant rules, practice directions, and disclosure obligations in applicable jurisdictions.
• Extensive experience using leading eDiscovery platforms such as Relativity or similar tools.
• Understanding of analytics, email threading, deduplication, predictive coding, and technology-assisted review.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cross-border matters, data privacy issues, and regulatory investigations would be an advantage.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range: $220,000 to $260,000.
• The range reflects the organization’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the possible compensation at the time of posting.
• Actual compensation depends on relevant experience, performance, qualifications, degrees, location, and the needs of the organization.
• Total compensation package may include overtime pay, discretionary bonuses, and other benefits.

Additional Information

• This list of duties and responsibilities is not exhaustive and may include additional tasks as required.