Technical Assistant - eDiscovery

McCann FitzGerald LLP; Dublin; On-site; EUR 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

McCann FitzGerald LLP is seeking a Technical Assistant - eDiscovery to join our Project Services team. You will support the use of legal technology, build and manage HighQ Collaborate workflows, and assist with ediscovery tools to ensure efficient project delivery.

The successful candidate will be a recent graduate, capable of autonomous work while thriving in a collaborative team environment, with a focus on training and professional development in legal technology.

Qualifications

• A recent graduate with interest in evolving legal services.
• Comfortable working autonomously but also in a strong team environment.

Responsibilities

• Support use of legal technology in the Project Services team.
• Build and manage HighQ Collaborate transactions and iSheets.
• Support ediscovery and document review software tools like Contract Express and RelativityOne.
• Liaise with legal technology providers to request bespoke solutions.
• Provide training on technology to internal teams and clients.
• Keep up with emerging legal technologies and implement them without disrupting services.
• Offer tech support to clients and internal users as needed.
• Create and maintain software documentation and training materials.

Skills

Recent graduate

Team player

Training oriented

Tools

HighQ

RelativityOne

Contract Express

Job description

At McCann FitzGerald, we are a group of committed and passionate people who together create the strength of our firm. We combine world-class legal thinking with a human approach, to create advantage and unlock potential for our clients.

We work collaboratively, bringing the best people and teams together to solve complex issues, seize opportunities, and create better outcomes for clients.

The expectations of our clients, the competitive marketplace and our own ambitions have grown consistently over recent years. To ensure that we have the right supports in place to achieve our goals we are currently recruiting for a Technical Assistant - eDiscovery to join our dynamic Project Services team.

Our Project Services team is a dedicated and specific resource which provides our clients with cost-effective and integrated solutions to manage large projects. Its tiered offering combines the skills of our project managers, technologists, senior associates, review analysts and case team to create and implement strategies for managing projects of this scale.

Responsibilities -

• Work in our growing Project Services team to support their use of legal technology including:
• The use of the firm’s HighQ Collaborate platform, building and managing complex transactions in Virtual Data Rooms, utilising and developing legal project management tools and workflows,
• Designing and maintaining HighQ Collaborate iSheets with a broad range of complexity and project requirements;
• Working with tools such as Contract Express & RelativityOne and supporting the team’s use of all of its ediscovery and document review software;
• Liaising with legal technology service providers to raise user queries, request bespoke solutions etc.
• Providing training on the use of our legal technology applications to internal teams as well as to clients and other external users;
• Keeping abreast of emerging legal technologies and apply them into operations and activities as well as implementing new abilities in our existing technology without disrupting the provision of our services to our clients;
• Offering tech support to clients over the variety of services, systems and applications the Group offers over the course of the day as well as out of hours as needed
• Creating and maintaining software documentation including training materials and capability overviews;

Requirements -

The successful candidate will be:

• A recent graduate who has an interest in the evolving nature of legal services and who can bring their positive and proactive attitude to a team that are experts in their field who will invest in training you to the highest industry standards
• Comfortable working autonomously but also capable of working within a strong team environment