eDiscovery Attorney

Linklaters; Washington; On-site; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonuses

Benefits package

Job summary

Linklaters in Washington, DC area seeks a US-qualified lawyer with at least ten years post-qualification experience to lead eDiscovery strategy, collaborate with the team, and sign off on privilege, disclosure, and production workflows.

The role requires deep familiarity with eDiscovery lifecycle, analytics, and cross-border investigations, including Relativity and similar tools. Compensation aligns with market levels for senior eDiscovery counsel.

Qualifications

• US-qualified lawyer with a minimum of ten years post-qualification experience.
• Experience advising on eDiscovery, reviews, productions and investigations.
• Extensive experience using leading eDiscovery platforms such as Relativity or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide US-qualified legal advice and sign-off on privilege, disclosure obligations and legal risk within eDiscovery strategy for litigation matters, investigations, and regulatory cases.
• Coordinate with the eDiscovery team to integrate legal input into strategy and vendor-management functions.
• Support planning and execution of document preservation, collection, processing, review, analysis and production workflows.
• Provide legal sign-off that review and production strategies are proportionate, cost-effective and compliant.
• Liaise with partners, clients, vendors, forensic specialists and review teams to coordinate reviews and productions.
• Provide legal review and sign-off on document review and production protocols and training.
• Advise on legal defensibility of review tools and technology-assisted review.
• Assist matter teams with review planning, trainee training, escalation routes, quality control and consistency checks.
• Prepare matter updates, status reports and metrics for internal teams and clients.
• Advise on legal and regulatory compliance in external provider and client relationships managed by the eDiscovery team.
• Provide input into internal playbooks, templates and training on eDiscovery processes.
• Monitor developments in eDiscovery and share practical insights with teams.

Skills

US-qualified lawyer

eDiscovery leadership

Relativity platform

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Attention to detail

Education

Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent

Tools

Relativity

Job description

Key responsibilities

• Provide US-qualified legal advice and sign-off on privilege, disclosure obligations and legal risk within eDiscovery strategy for litigation matters, investigations, and regulatory cases, working with the eDiscovery team on the operational strategy itself.
• Coordinate closely with the eDiscovery team to ensure legal input is integrated into the eDiscovery team's existing strategy, best-practice and vendor-management functions.
• Support the matter team with respect to the planning and execution of document preservation, collection, processing, review, analysis and production workflows.
• Provide legal sign-off confirming that review and production strategies developed with the eDiscovery team are proportionate, cost-effective and aligned with relevant legal and procedural requirements.
• Liaise with partners, associates, clients, vendors, forensic specialists and review teams to coordinate reviews and productions.
• Provide legal review and sign-off on document review and production protocols and associated training prepared by the eDiscovery team.
• Advise on the legal defensibility of review tools, analytics, technology-assisted review and other eDiscovery technologies selected and operated by the eDiscovery team.
• Assist matter teams with review planning, including reviewer training, escalation routes, quality control and consistency checks.
• Prepare matter updates, status reports and metrics for internal teams and clients.
• Advise on legal and regulatory compliance considerations in external provider and client relationships managed by the eDiscovery team.
• Provide legal input into internal best practices, playbooks, templates and training on document review, production and eDiscovery processes owned by the eDiscovery team.
• Monitor legal, procedural and technological developments relevant to eDiscovery and share practical insights with teams.

Qualifications & Experience

• Self-starter, keen to take ownership of the role and develop it within the context of the service required.
• High degree of initiative
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Good interpersonal skills with the confidence to deal with all levels of staff
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong organizational skills and able to demonstrate a pragmatic approach
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and stakeholders.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• High attention to detail and a practical, solution-focused approach.
• Confidence working with legal teams, clients, data specialists and external vendors.
• US qualified lawyer with a minimum of ten years post qualification experience
• Experience advising on eDiscovery, reviews and productions and investigations
• Good understanding of the e-discovery lifecycle, including preservation, collection, review and production.
• Familiarity with relevant rules, practice directions and disclosure obligations in applicable jurisdictions.
• Extensive experience using leading eDiscovery platforms such as Relativity or similar tools.
• Understanding of analytics, email threading, deduplication, predictive coding and technology-assisted review.
• Experience with cross-border matters, data privacy issues and regulatory investigations would be an advantage.

The base salary range offered for this role will be between $220,000 and $260,000 and represents the firm's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent upon a number of factors, including but not limited to, the candidate's relevant experience, performance, qualifications, degrees and location, as well as the needs of the firm. The total compensation package for this position may include overtime pay, discretionary bonuses and other benefits.

Technical Skills:

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.