Project Manager, eDiscovery Staffing

Lighthouse; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an eDiscovery Senior Project Manager to join their dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your expertise to guide clients through complex eDiscovery processes while collaborating with a diverse team of professionals. Your responsibilities will include managing projects, providing consultative guidance, and ensuring clients receive exceptional service tailored to their needs. This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in a supportive environment that values innovation and collaboration. If you're passionate about driving results and making a difference, this role is for you!

Qualifications

• 5+ years in law department or eDiscovery provider.
• Experience in providing legal advice on eDiscovery issues.

Responsibilities

• Manage client projects and lead dedicated PM teams.
• Design methods for legal hold and document review.

Skills

Project Management

eDiscovery Expertise

Legal Consulting

Client Relationship Management

Organizational Skills

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree or JD

Tools

Spectra

Relativity

Job description

What is special about Lighthouse?

Lighthouse is built on a foundation of unique, compassionate, highly driven individuals. We elevate the strengths and talents of those around us while leveraging opportunities for growth. We offer the experience of solving complex problems while continuing to grow multiple facets of your career. Lighthouse is where innovation meets support and where collaboration is the key ingredient to success. We grow together and are stronger together.

What’s unique about this role?

Spectra is a rapidly growing eDiscovery platform with customers around the globe ranging from Fortune 50 household names to boutique law firms. Using innovative technology and backed by global eDiscovery leader Lighthouse, Spectra delivers exceptional simplicity, power, and efficiency in a multi-billion dollar market.

As the eDiscovery Senior Project Manager, you will be a dedicated team member and subject matter expert seconded to a client to help execute their information governance, eDiscovery, and document review initiatives. As such you will contribute to designing, implementing, and reporting on customer’s programs such as eDiscovery, collection, legal hold, document review, and legal technology solutions. This includes supporting the client by executing tasks across the eDiscovery lifecycle and having the knowledge of and ability to provide solutions.

The position will work closely with the Lighthouse Client Services team, Account Management, Client Success, Spectra team, other Lighthouse teams such as Advisory, Digital Forensics, Review Management, etc., client, and client’s vendors to achieve these objectives.

What will this person do?

• Contribute to the delivery of solutions to meet the client’s needs
• Manage the client and lead a dedicated PM team while ensuring the delivery of the solution to meet the client’s needs
• Manage litigations and investigations and provide consultative guidance as needed
• Execute work for the client in Spectra and Relativity to facilitate cases and investigations
• Help design methods, processes, metrics, and quality steps for collection, legal hold, discovery, and document review
• Assist in defining requirements, selecting technology and services, and work with customers to implement technical discovery solutions
• Ensure the clients are aware of and informed about the breadth of Lighthouse’s products and services
• Serve as a key go-to resource for the client’s in-house legal teams for day-to-day task execution across supported departments such as Legal, IT, Finance, etc.

Bring your passion and together we will shine. It would also be great if you have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree (Masters or JD a plus)
• 5+ years of successful experience in a law department, law firm and/or a legal consulting firm or eDiscovery provider
• High energy, collaborative team-player, and self-starter
• Experience with providing substantive legal advice concerning electronic discovery issues, including all aspects of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), to the eDiscovery team, case teams, and clients
• Experience with developing defensible strategies for eDiscovery collections, processing, culling, searching, and productions
• Experience with interfacing with in-house and/or outside counsel regarding eDiscovery issues and disputes
• Experience with advising clients regarding records management and data governance issues that relate to or impact the discovery of electronically stored information (ESI) in disputes proceedings
• Experience with working effectively with the eDiscovery team to provide the full range of eDiscovery services to disputes teams and clients and to be a thought leader on eDiscovery and data governance issues
• Experience with identifying opportunities for improvements, recommending a viable solution to the client, and implementing the project
• Strong client empathy and ability to build relationships with clients
• Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to multitask

Work Environment and Physical Demands

• Duties are performed in a typical office environment while at a desk or computer table.
• Duties require the ability to use a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material, in a quiet and professional setting.
• Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).

Lighthouse celebrates and thrives on diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire, train, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We welcome any talents and contributions you can bring to the team and are deeply committed to growing an environment where everyone can feel safe, is respected, and can show up as themselves. Come as you are!