Overview
A legal services organization is seeking a Senior Managing Attorney to join their Legal Solutions business unit. This is a remote position based in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Act as a senior client-facing legal and operational leader delivering high-quality services across the litigation lifecycle for corporations and law firms.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, counsel, program leadership, and attorney teams on active matters, advisory engagements, and program initiatives.
- Lead, scope, and execute program engagements related to litigation, investigations, discovery workflows, deposition preparation, fact development, witness preparation support, second level review, and other legal analysis.
- Provide primary escalation support for program attorneys on substantive legal issues, workflow questions, technology needs, performance concerns, and client communications.
- Consult on the design, development, and implementation of efficient and defensible workflows, including review protocols, escalation procedures, training guidelines, quality control plans, and reporting structures.
- Manage client expectations regarding deliverables, timelines, budgets, staffing, productivity, quality, and scope changes; communicate project status and performance regularly.
- Oversee discovery-related workflows including identification of key documents, development of witness materials, fact chronologies, issue outlines, document summaries, timelines, and memoranda.
- Implement and supervise workflows within document review and litigation technology platforms, including batch sets, fields, layouts, views, rules, security, highlighting, search term reports, analytics, and matter-specific configurations.
- Utilize structured analytics, conceptual analytics, artificial intelligence, technology-assisted review, email threading, near-duplicate identification, clustering, advanced search techniques, statistical sampling, and custom scripts to improve accuracy, consistency, productivity, and defensibility.
- Oversee quality control and assurance processes such as calibration exercises, sampling, issue escalation, query logs, reviewer feedback, and validation of production or disclosure sets.
- Monitor and report on matter progress, attorney productivity, accuracy, budget performance, training completion, and individual or team performance with daily or weekly reporting.
- Lead, mentor, motivate, and provide substantive feedback to attorney teams to promote consistent performance, professional development, and high-quality work product.
- Support onboarding, offboarding, attorney readiness, placement candidate assignments, requisition processes, assignment end forms, and coordination with recruiting, client services, continuous improvement, and third-party providers.
- Develop and maintain onboarding, training, assessment, remediation resources, and scalable program infrastructure to promote consistency across matters.
- Collaborate with program leadership, continuous improvement, client services, operations, recruiting, and technology teams to identify recurring needs, create training resources, standardize best practices, and implement program improvements.
- Assist with time entry oversight, invoice review, project wrap-up, performance documentation, and other administrative or operational tasks supporting accurate billing, budget management, and matter closeout.
Requirements
- Juris Doctorate (JD) degree and valid, active state bar admission in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- Legal qualification and litigation practice experience in at least one jurisdiction.
- Minimum five (5) years of experience in eDiscovery, litigation support, legal project management, managed review, or comparable legal services.
- Experience in law firm, corporate legal department, or managed review vendor environments preferred.
- Strong understanding of the litigation lifecycle, including discovery, document review, second level review, deposition preparation, fact development, motion support, witness preparation, trial preparation, and case analysis.
- Extensive knowledge of electronically stored information (ESI) management, processing, review, analysis, and production.
- Significant experience with eDiscovery tools such as Relativity or comparable platforms.
- Experience developing and implementing workflows leveraging structured analytics (email threading, near duplicate identification), conceptual analytics, active learning, and AI.
- Excellent data searching and analysis skills to uncover facts that support case strategy and evidence development.
- Proven ability to manage multiple complex matters or workstreams simultaneously while balancing client service, attorney team management, quality control, budget, and operational priorities.
- Experience designing workflows, drafting protocols, creating training materials, leading attorney teams, assessing performance, and implementing scalable processes.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel (formulas, pivot tables, reporting, formatting).
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including leading client calls, internal meetings, training sessions, and substantive discussions.
- Strong issue spotting, judgment, problem-solving, organizational, collaboration, and personnel management skills with attention to detail.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $120,000 to $130,000 annually.
- Eligibility for an annual bonus.
- Salary determined based on location market rate, candidate abilities, interview performance, and pay parity.
- Additional benefits details provided during the screening process.
Location
- Remote position within the United States.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The organization complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws and prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status, reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status, or any other protected basis under applicable law. Affirmative action is taken for minorities, women, covered veterans, and individuals with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the application process for individuals with disabilities. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered where applicable by law.