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eDiscovery Project Manager
eDISCOVERY PROJECT MANAGER
Overview
The Project Manager role is responsible for high level management, delegation, and execution of day-to-day e-discovery project tasks. The role involves concurrently managing multiple projects of varying complexity. The incumbent will collaborate with attorneys, paralegals, IT personnel, and other members of the counsel and/or client legal team to ensure the successful completion of e-discovery matters. Project Manager must also mentor, train and delegate to an assigned team of Project Coordinators.
Overview
The Project Manager role is responsible for high level management, delegation, and execution of day-to-day e-discovery project tasks. The role involves concurrently managing multiple projects of varying complexity. The incumbent will collaborate with attorneys, paralegals, IT personnel, and other members of the counsel and/or client legal team to ensure the successful completion of e-discovery matters. Project Manager must also mentor, train and delegate to an assigned team of Project Coordinators.
- Responsibilities
- Providing end-to-end oversight of discovery matters and serving as primary client point of contact.
- Providing expertise and consultative advice regarding data collections, processing, review workflows, analytics, and production/export deliverables.
- Creating and maintaining project schedules, including defining activities, sequence, dependencies, work effort, duration and associated resource requirements.
- Developing and managing relationships with internal teams.
- Defining, communicating, implementing and monitoring quality standards on all project deliverables.
- Planning and managing internal and external project communications, ensuring effective exchange of project information and deliverables.
- Serving as expert on Right Discovery’s review platforms and proprietary offerings.
- Forecasting, tracking and managing project budgets and invoices.
- Successfully overseeing multiple, concurrent projects.
- Generating and distributing reporting metrics for processed requests and KPI’s on a regular basis.
- Developing strong client relationships through collaborative, consultative service.
- Project Team Leadership:
- Leading an assigned team of project managers and project coordinators.
- Serve as a point of escalation for junior members of the team.
- Managing utilization and project assignment within the project team.
- Providing training and supervision for junior team members.
- Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree or minimum of 5 years in the litigation support / legal industry.
- Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Senior Project Manager.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of Relativity review platform.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple, concurrent projects involving cross-functional teams within budgetary and schedule constraints.
- Demonstrated ability to manage client expectations and maintain client satisfaction.
- A proactive approach to problem-solving and the ability to anticipate client needs.
- The ability to confront unexpected problems quickly and effectively.
- Strong teamwork, communication (written and oral), client management, and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage project teams, including teams of supporting project managers.
- Experience with or understanding handling forensic collections is a plus.