eDiscovery Consultant – Any Office

Freeths; Leicester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Freeths seeks an eDiscovery Consultant for its Disputes division. This role offers the opportunity to support and grow the eDiscovery functionalities, enhancing services across the firm. The ideal candidate will have extensive eDiscovery experience, especially with RelativityOne, and strong analytical skills to address challenges and streamline processes within legal teams.

Qualifications

• 2+ years practical experience in eDiscovery.
• Proficiency in RelativityOne required.
• Strong analytical and logical problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the eDiscovery PM with data scoping and preservation.
• Deliver technical and consulting eDiscovery services to legal teams.
• Engage internal stakeholders to enhance eDiscovery services.

Skills

Data scoping

Data preservation

Analytical problem-solving

Effective communication

Organizational skills

Education

Degree in Computer Forensics, Computer Science, or eDiscovery related discipline

Tools

RelativityOne

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About The Team

Freeths national and award-winning Commercial Disputes Resolution (“CDR”) team comprises over 100 lawyers across our 13 national offices. This team was awarded UK Litigation Team of the Year by The Lawyer Awards 2020 and the equivalent award by The British Legal Awards 2020 for taking on a major High Court group action against the Post Office, which exposed one of the largest miscarriages of justice in British legal history.

About The Team

Freeths national and award-winning Commercial Disputes Resolution (“CDR”) team comprises over 100 lawyers across our 13 national offices. This team was awarded UK Litigation Team of the Year by The Lawyer Awards 2020 and the equivalent award by The British Legal Awards 2020 for taking on a major High Court group action against the Post Office, which exposed one of the largest miscarriages of justice in British legal history.

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team within the new eDiscovery capability for Freeths’ Disputes division. The successful candidate will support the eDiscovery PM across data scoping, preservation, and collection; provide operational assistance for data processing, review management, and production; and engage with internal and external stakeholders to enhance the eDiscovery services at Freeths.

The eDiscovery function sits within the CDR division, reporting into the National Head of Dispute Resolution, James Hartley. This role directly reports into the eDiscovery lead, Jake Pennington-Slater. The successful candidate will be responsible for:

Growing the eDiscovery Function

• Supporting the eDiscovery PM with:
• Collaborating with key internal stakeholders to expand the scope of technical and supporting eDiscovery services provided;
• Managing the requirements and portfolio mix for the firm’s network of external support services, having regard to business requirements;
• Engaging with internal stakeholders across the firm to establish awareness, understanding, and adoption of eDiscovery capabilities; and
• Ongoing development of documentation of protocols, processes, and other resources to present within the firm’s knowledge systems and BD literature, to ensure the firm works effectively with the function, and communicates its successes and value.
  

Delivering the eDiscovery Function

• Delivery of technical and consulting eDiscovery services to legal teams, having regard to each stage of the EDRM, with a focus on:
• Supporting legal teams with data scoping;
• Data preservation and forensic collection services;
• Data processing and quality assurance workflows;
• Delivery of operational support across the Relativity suite;
• Provision of disclosures/productions.
• Ensuring that projects are carried out to the best standard, within agreed timeframes, with close adherence to agreed budgets, protocols, and processes.
• Providing creative ideas and solutions to technical challenges, ensuring the legal teams are taking best advantage of the technical capabilities of the available tools.
• Providing clear and proactive communications/collaboration with eDiscovery PM, legal teams and clients on the structure and progress of delivery, including effective expectation management and transparency/auditability of processes.
• Supporting eDiscovery PM in providing regular training and awareness sessions in relation to new capabilities that will allow for continuous improvement in management of eDiscovery projects.
  
  

Most importantly, we are looking for someone with a positive, enthusiastic and collaborative attitude, who has confidence and ambition in building out the business value of this new offering for the firm and its clients.

Essential:

Skills And Experience

• 2+ years practical experience in eDiscovery.
• Proficiency in RelativityOne.
• Data scoping and collection experience.
• Adaptability to an expanding and evolving workload.
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Strong analytical and logical problem-solving skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
  
  
  

Desirable

• RCA Qualification.
• SQL Script Writing Experience.
• Degree in Computer Forensics, Computer Science, or other eDiscovery related discipline
• Industry specific or technology related certifications
  
  
  

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