Senior eDiscovery Project Manager
UnitedLex is seeking an experienced eDiscovery Project Manager to support our litigation engagements throughout the US. This PM will be responsible for successfully delivering end-to-end client services in a fast-paced, secure environment.
This is a remote position open to applicants throughout the United States.
Overview of the Position
As a Sr. eDiscovery Project Manager, you will lead and coordinate all aspects of eDiscovery projects, serving as a trusted advisor to clients and internal stakeholders. You will manage project kick-off through completion, ensuring high quality services clear communication, budget adherence and successful outcomes.
Responsibilities
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Lead and support all project management activities as part of a dedicated team supporting top tiered law firms and corporations, successfully delivering end-to-end client services in a fast-paced environment.
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Intelligently discuss and consult with case teams regarding collections, data processing, data hosting, review services, and productions. Coordinates calls with appropriate experts as needed, including collections teams, document review managers, consultants, etc. Drives revenue by introducing services and teams to solve critical client needs.
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Facilitates client and counsel calls with confidence to instill trust in UnitedLex processes, recommendations, and deliverables. Proactively contacts the case team to best serve clients' needs and to develop relationships for future work. Provides transparent and consistent communication regarding the status of each case to include scope of changes, cost changes, delays, risks, and more.
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Respond to email within 30 minutes during business hours and within 1 hour outside of reasonable business hours.
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Maintains constant awareness of the activity on assigned cases and proactively prepares other teams for incoming work.
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Demonstrate ownership and accountability for assigned projects and programs, driving them forward, resolving issues proactively and ensuring commitment are met
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Partners with the Document Review Manager to provide consolidated, consistent budgeting and reporting. Ensuring communication is collaborative and is oriented towards the client's needs, not internal team.
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Prepares a project intake document and runs intake call with a case team, including but not limited to the explicit determination of timeline, budget, case team members, production, and review requirements.
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Maintains the project tracker in a state that reflects the current status of the processing work, hosted database, and overall project.
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Performs production anomaly checks of documents to be produced, including but not limited to, conflict coding, redactions, privilege, and family breaks. Completes final production deliverable QC and ensures that at least two levels of QC have been performed and documented.
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Identify opportunities for improvement and proactively raise recommendations with your manager to improve potential processes, tools and service delivery.
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Analyzes active cases, works with Program Director (PD) and other Project Managers to assign a back-up during an absence, and communicates coverage plans to the client prior to leaving the office.
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Mentors and develops less experienced project managers.
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Fosters positive working relationships with other teams and departments to collaboratively serve clients.
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Performs quality checks and approves invoices in a timely manner during each billing cycle.
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Maintain 70% to 80% Billable utilization.
Qualifications
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3+ years as a Project Manager within eDiscovery, Litigation Support
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Conceptual understanding of options available in processing software and the ability to communicate those options to clients.
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Experience within Relativity platform and or Everlaw platform
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Experience in performing Early Data Assessment, including: consulting on search term refinement, and leveraging analytics tools (e.g. concept clustering, textual