Senior E-Discovery Project Manager
Fawkes IDM, United States

A law firm in Washington, D.C. is seeking a full-time e-discovery project manager to join their team. The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for deadlines, budgets, and the scope of the case activities. They will work with case teams and clients on eDiscovery and other related technical projects. The Senior Project Manager will provide a case plan and will be responsible for the completion of work and tasks by both internal and external resources. The Senior Project Manager provides ongoing case, technical and software support to litigation team members either directly or indirectly.

Responsibilities

• Provide day to day management of technical case work on large and complex
• Provide case plans and reports for assigned
• Act as client facing resource with respect to cases, eDiscovery practices, and the department’s processes in documentation, daily correspondence, training, and conference calls and
• Maintain oversight and control of budget, scope, and timelines for assigned
• Utilize knowledge of eDiscovery software, litigation logistics, customer/client needs and vendor selection procedures to plan, design and execute appropriate information technology support necessary to improve efficiency for each case.
• Demonstrate knowledge of eDiscovery technology (Relativity) to streamline case practices and create time saving and cost saving

Requirements

• 3+ experience as project management of complex, large, and demanding cases
• Bachelor’s degree
• Project management, process management, management training
• Possesses or can obtain Relativity certification(s) within nine months
• Previous eDiscovery/litigation support or similar legal experience required, including previous experience working independently with clients and litigation teams
• 3+ years project management experience, including experience with managing eDiscovery, document coding, data collections, and scanning
• Experience with litigation support software (Relativity, Concordance, IPRO, LiveNote, CaseMap, TimeMap, DTSearch, Sanction, eCapture and other similar litigation support software), eDiscovery applications, network environments, word processing, relational database, and spreadsheet applications to coordinate technical resources for practice group support projects, including equipment, staffing and software/applications.
• Flexibility to work overtime or travel to regional office and/or trial locations, as required

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