Legal Project Manager, Employment Litigation & Discovery

Consilio LLC; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Consilio LLC is seeking a highly skilled Legal Project Manager for Employment Litigation & Discovery to support a corporate legal department within a client-facing legal services team. This hybrid role oversees employment-related discovery from inception through production, partnering with attorneys, HR, IT, compliance, and outside counsel to deliver timely, defensible results.

The ideal candidate will be proactive, adaptable, and capable of learning new technology quickly while delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or comparable experience required.
• 5–8+ years of experience in litigation support or the legal industry, including significant project management experience.
• Strong experience managing complex discovery processes, particularly employment-related matters.
• Proficiency with e-discovery tools and legal technology; ability to quickly learn new systems.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, communication, and client-management skills.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced litigation environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide litigation support to attorneys by establishing and managing cases from inception through the discovery phase.
• Ability to utilize multiple systems to setup cases.
• Prepare accurate and detail-oriented legal hold notices, ensuring documentation and compliance with preservation requirements.
• Collect, organize, and review company records in support of litigation.
• Lead and coordinate discovery meetings across teams to facilitate information gathering and production of documents.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and internal protocols throughout case management and discovery processes.
• Preparation of electronic data in compliance with legal and court-mandated protocols.
• Provide end-to-end oversight of multiple concurrent discovery matters and serve as the primary client contact.

Skills

Litigation support

Project management

e-discovery tools

Legal technology

Education

Bachelor’s degree or comparable experience

Tools

e-discovery tools

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Legal Project Manager, Employment Litigation & Discovery, to support a corporate legal department as part of a client-facing legal services team. Embedded within the client's legal function, this hybrid role combines litigation support, discovery management, and legal project management responsibilities. The successful candidate will oversee employment-related discovery matters from inception through production, partnering closely with attorneys, HR, IT, compliance, and outside counsel to deliver timely, defensible, and high-quality results. The ideal candidate is a proactive, resourceful, and adaptable professional who takes ownership of assigned responsibilities, learns new technology and systems quickly, and consistently delivers accurate, high-quality work while supporting the needs of the litigation team.

Responsibilities

Paralegal

• Provide litigation support to attorneys by establishing and managing cases from inception through the completion of the discovery phase, including new case setup, drafting legal holds, providing guidance for outside counsel, maintaining case files, tracking deadlines, coordinating discovery activities, and ensuring timely completion of case-related tasks.
• Ability to utilize multiple systems to setup cases
• Prepare accurate and detail-oriented legal hold notices, ensuring documentation and compliance with document preservation requirements
• Collect, organize, and review company records, documents and policies in support of litigation
• Lead and coordinate discovery meetings across multiple teams to facilitate information gathering, establish priorities, track progress, and ensure timely collection and production of responsive documents and records
• Ensure compliance with established company policies, procedures, and internal protocols throughout case management and discovery processes
• Preparation of electronic data in compliance with legal, court-mandated protocols

Project & Client Management

• Provide end-to-end oversight of multiple concurrent discovery matters, serving as the primary point of contact for
• Serve as the primary point of contact for designated client stakeholders, attorneys, outside counsel, and cross-functional business partners.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Manage project teams and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver work on time and within scope.
• Proactively manage client expectations and build strong, consultative relationships.
• Deliver a high level of client service by anticipating needs, providing proactive communication, identifying risks, and ensuring timely resolution of issues.
• Meet established service level commitments, quality standards, and client expectations

E-Discovery & Litigation Support

• Manage the full e-discovery lifecycle in compliance with the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM).
• Oversee data collections, custodian interviews, processing, review workflows, analytics, and productions.
• Support complex discovery efforts, including responses to discovery requests, document production, and ESI stipulations.
• Execute searches and leverage analytics to identify relevant data.

Process Improvement & Reporting

• Identify and implement process improvements related to discovery, document review, and legal operations.
• Define and monitor quality standards across all project deliverables.
• Generate and distribute reporting metrics and KPIs to support legal and business decision-making.

Collaboration & Communication

• Partner with internal teams (HR, compliance, I.T) and outside counsel to support ongoing legal matters.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or comparable experience required.
• 5–8+ years of experience in litigation support or the legal industry, including significant project management experience.
• Strong experience managing complex discovery processes, particularly employment-related matters.
• Proficiency with e-discovery tools and legal technology; ability to quickly learn new systems.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, communication, and client-management skills.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced litigation environment.

Consilio’s True North Values

Client Experience

Listen for the “why”. Clearly define success. Be accountable. Go the extra distance to create moments that matter.

Collaboration

Treat everyone with respect. Welcome diverse views. Partner across geography, generations, and teams. Rally around final decisions.

Innovation

Always be curious (ABC). Challenge the status quo. Experiment and fail forward. Build for the future.

Grit

Focus on what matters. Work with passion and persistence. Think like an owner. Deliver results you’re proud of.

Consilio, LLC is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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