About the Role
Stoel Rives LLP has an immediate opening for an e-Discovery Project Manager. This is a key consultative and client service team member responsible for the overall eDiscovery management of a case, from consulting on best collection practices through document production. The Project Manager works closely with the legal case team to provide excellent service and support to end clients.
Responsibilities
- As a subject matter expert for e-discovery, provides guidance and general oversight for clients during the entire e-discovery life cycle.
- Plans, coordinates, executes, and delivers electronic discovery projects.
- Facilitates communication and collaboration between and among clients and their respective resources, including technology staff, legal case teams, vendors, outside counsel legal teams, and support staff.
- Consults and coordinates the collection, management, review, processing, and/or production of ESI, and provides clients with the highest level of daily status, data integrity, and service quality.
- Gathers, documents, and coordinates project specifications from the client and works with the eDiscovery Project Analyst and/or vendor to ensure requirements and timelines are understood.
- Identifies and manages issues and risks.
- Utilizes critical thinking and troubleshooting skills to communicate cost-effective solutions to clients.
- Performs quality control and quality assurance of project data prior to client delivery.
- Documents project expectations with formal statements of work, project specifications, and design documentation.
Requirements
- Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Must possess excellent interpersonal communication skills.
- Must possess strong oral presentation, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
- Must possess highly developed planning and organizational skills.
- Ability to learn new concepts.
- Ability to identify and resolve problems.
- Good judgment and discretion.
- Teamwork/cooperation.
- Initiative, adaptability.
- Customer service orientation.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Ability to handle multiple demands/priorities and a variety of projects.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to understand and practice confidentiality.
- Must be responsive, flexible, and professional.
- Ability to apply system analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users to determine hardware, software, or system functional specifications.
- Ability to type on a computer keyboard in a sitting position.
- Ability to operate telephone, photocopy, fax, and other office equipment.
- Requires prolonged sitting, occasional standing, bending and lifting.
- Must have ability to read and comprehend hand written and typed notes or correspondence.
- Must have ability to be resourceful in seeking out information, anticipating consequences, and making sound judgments and decisions.
- Ability to effectively prioritize workload.
- Ability to analyze, initiate action, and take responsibility for outcome.
Skills
- Strong knowledge of the electronic discovery records model (EDRM).
- Strong knowledge of electronically stored information (ESI).
- Strong knowledge of litigation review platforms.
- Use of Technology Assisted Review.
- Use of Gen LLM.
- Use of RAG.
- Extensive knowledge of the concepts, principles, management, and processing of ESI as they relate to legal matters.
- Knowledge of various ESI management and review tools and applications.
- Advanced knowledge of eDiscovery review platforms, such as Concordance and Relativity.
- Strong working knowledge of Technology Assisted Review and Gen AI.
Location
- Pacific Time
Work Type
- Remote work options
Experience Level
- Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience in the litigation support/legal industry.
- 2-3 years of Project Management experience with on-time deliverables and strong problem-solving skills and high attention to detail.
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree required
- PMP Certification preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $84,000 - $184,000
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Paid family & medical leave
- Competitive PTO
- Remote work options
- Competitive and robust medical, dental, vision, life long-term disability, AD&D, EAP, FSA and Voluntary Life, ADD, and LTC options.
- Generous firm-contributed health savings account
- Pre-tax transportation/parking plan including an employer monthly subsidy of $100 for individuals who work 3+ days/week in the office
- Annual contribution into the employee’s retirement plan
About the Company
- Stoel Rives is a leading U.S. corporate and litigation law firm providing sophisticated business clients high quality legal services.
- With offices in seven states and Washington, D.C., Stoel Rives is a nationally recognized leader in project finance and the energy and natural resources industries.
- From deals and disputes to compliance and counseling, clients turn to Stoel Rives for their most complex business challenges.
- Learn more at www.stoel.com.
