eDiscovery Technician for Federal Agency

CGS Federal (Contact Government Services); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

CGS Federal (Contact Government Services) in San Francisco seeks an eDiscovery Technician to support the legal division of a large Federal agency. The role focuses on logging productions, evaluating cover letters, and ensuring load readiness in Relativity.

You will perform virus scanning, password retrieval with producers, and follow strict protocols for various document types while coordinating with Lit Support staff.

Qualifications

• Three years of eDiscovery technical experience in compiling, analyzing, and synthesizing information to support project task requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree; three years of additional relevant work experience may substitute for the degree.
• Knowledge of information resources.
• Excellent analytical capabilities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to deliver high-quality work under extreme pressure and tight deadlines.
• Experience managing multiple tasks as defined in Duties & Responsibilities above.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Log the production in the Agency's eDiscovery Tracking System.
• Digest the cover letter (which may be several pages long) and provide a brief description of the production.
• If the media received is encrypted and no password is provided, call the producing party to obtain the password.
• Determine if the cover letter contains substantive information that would qualify it for loading into Relativity.
• Virus scan the production off-network, using multiple virus protection software and other tools.
• If issues are detected, follow protocol to either address the issue or reject the production.
• Copy the production to the Agency's network after it is determined to be clean.
• Follow protocol and procedures when handling various types of documents (whistleblower, RFPA, MOUs, International, BSA, audio files, transcripts, laptops, paper).
• Analyze the productions to determine processing requirements and which protocol to follow.
• Analyze the data to ensure its completeness.
• If the data is load ready, inspect it to ensure all components are present and communicate issues if incomplete.
• Monitor for incoming productions arriving via email and via the Agency's FTP site.
• Scan and OCR small amounts of paper documents in preparation for loading into Relativity.
• Coordinate off-site scanning for productions with multiple boxes of paper.

Skills

eDiscovery

Analytical skills

Written and verbal communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

CGS Federal (Contact Government Services) in San Francisco seeks an eDiscovery Technician to support the legal division of a large Federal agency. The role focuses on logging productions, evaluating cover letters, and ensuring load readiness in Relativity.

You will perform virus scanning, password retrieval with producers, and follow strict protocols for various document types while coordinating with Lit Support staff.