Alston Discovery Staff Attorney/Discovery & Analytics Counsel

Alston & Bird; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Alston & Bird is seeking a Staff Attorney/Discovery & Analytics Counsel to manage eDiscovery matters, privilege reviews, and related analytics projects. The role emphasizes leadership, cross-training with attorneys and technology professionals, and collaboration with client teams to enhance efficiency.

The candidate should have strong technical expertise in eDiscovery platforms, analytics, and privilege work, with a track record in supervising complex reviews and maintaining project governance.

Qualifications

• Experience handling eDiscovery matters and privilege reviews.
• Leadership, management and supervisory capabilities.
• Strong analytical skills with familiarity of analytics tools and TAR concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead team building and knowledge sharing among project attorneys, staff, tech professionals and client teams.
• Coordinate with Alston Discovery leadership and internal/external client teams.
• Develop protocols/workflows for analysis of electronic data.
• Oversee complex document reviews, contract analysis and analytics projects.
• Supervise privilege reviews and maintain client witness files and timelines.

Skills

Relativity certifications

Excel

Heretic

Tools

Excel

Heretic

Job description

THE FIRM

As a leading international law firm, we are dedicated to excellence through impactful communication, collaboration, and community involvement. Our company culture has earned us one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” for 27 consecutive years. This honor, along with many others, highlights our commitment to innovation and professional development. At Alston & Bird LLP, our foundation is made of trust, reliability, and compassion.

JOB DESCRIPTION

An Alston Discovery Staff Attorney/Discovery & Analytics Counsel (“Staff Attorney”) is a hybrid full time salaried position with certain HR benefits. Staff Attorneys assist in the management and supervision of eDiscovery matters, privilege reviews and privilege logs, transactional due diligence projects, research projects, lease or contract reviews, and other work as assigned. They will be responsible for team building, knowledge sharing, and cross-training with our current project attorneys, staff attorneys, and technology professionals to enable them to function at a higher level. Additional information about Staff Attorney duties is set forth below.

Candidates must be licensed attorneys in good standing in the State of Georgia and must live and work in the State of Georgia. In evaluating candidates, consideration will be given to (1)technical expertise with eDiscovery review platforms, advanced analytics and technology assisted review (TAR), contract analysis platforms, Excel spreadsheets and other technology tools; (2)the demonstration of, or potential for, excellent leadership, management and supervisory skills and experience; (3)depth of experience with eDiscovery, analytics, and other developing AI tools generally; (4)in depth knowledge of and experience with privilege reviews and privilege logs; and (5)the ability to effectively work and interact with lawyers at the Firm and our clients and serve as a representative of the Firm’s legal team. The billable hours expectation for this position will be 1,800.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

The essential duties of a Staff Attorney may include, but are not limited to:

• Team building, knowledge sharing, and cross-training of project attorneys, other staff attorneys, technology professionals, and client teams.
• Coordinate with Alston Discovery leadership and with internal and external Client Teams.
• Assist in the development of protocols and workflows for the analysis of electronic data.
• Manage and supervise complex document reviews, contract analysis, analytics projects, and other projects.
• Develop and maintain primary responsibility with case teams for non-review special projects (such as research, surveys and contract analysis) that demonstrates in-depth substantive knowledge in a specific legal area or client business.
• Oversee and work collaboratively with our Legal Technology & Consulting Services team on design and implementation of Alston Analytics projects.
• Perform 2nd tier review or quality control on a document review.
• Perform and supervise privilege reviews.
• Assist client teams in the development of witness files, timelines, chronologies, deposition and trial outlines and memoranda.
• Create, revise and update document decision and privilege logs.
• Preserve confidentiality of client matters.
• Maintain current and accurate time entry records.
• Maintain knowledge of and adherence to the Firm’s policies and procedures, including established best practices.

SKILLS NEEDED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

The skills needed to be successful will vary with the particular matter to which a Staff Attorney is assigned but may include:

• Advanced Relativity certifications.
• Skilled in software tools, such as Heretic, Excel, etc.
• Superior legal analysis skills.
• Significant experience applying state-of-the-...>