Overview:
Elevate is recruiting a Team Lead to join Elevate as part of our Disputes & Investigations team. This team will support global law firm and in-house law department customers with litigation document review, cyber incident response, and eDiscovery in ongoing complex litigations and data breaches.
Specifically, you will
- Be responsible for performing quality checks and running audits on document review projects; expected to participate in the development and refinement of efficient audits.
- Assist the manager in organizing, planning, and implementing strategy.
- Need to have good written communication skills to create engagement reference documents, emails or drafts that are used for communications with external stakeholders (e.g. e-discovery platform vendors; customers/outside counsel).
- Review documents for: legal and/or factual relevance to the case/investigation; legal privilege; and special (matter-specific) concepts as per customer instructions.
- Ensure that the entire project is running smoothly without any issues and risk to the deadlines.
- Manage the team and the process.
- Be an expert on the protocol and instructions governing the case; regularly contribute to development and preparation of training material and actively participate in project-specific training sessions. You should be comfortable disseminating this learning to small sub-teams, or more generally to juniors on the team.
- Need to have good knowledge of e-discovery platforms and workflow should go beyond management of individual assignments; should be able to understand and run advanced searches on multiple e-discovery platforms; should be able to create workflows.
- Create a robust environment to lead and manage document review and data breach projects.
- Handle the management and execution of document review and data breach processes.
- Be expected to innovate and improve upon document review and data breach processes and techniques.
- Maximize platform reporting/tracking ability.
- Need to have strong subject matter expertise, display significant ability to engage with the subject matter expert of the department’s projects (Industries include Financial, Intellectual Property etc.)
Skills for Success:
- Skilled in the most used e-discovery platforms, including managing assignments, workflow (including the ability to suggest changes to workflow)
- Searches: understands search syntax (and the ways in which they vary) on platforms; ability to run error-free searches and to train juniors on the same; test the effectiveness of the search results Attention to detail.
- Excellent analytical & logical skills
- Advanced knowledge of MS word, excel, power point.
- Attention to detail.
- Displays leadership potential by way of “floor presence” and ability to motivate juniors. Able to run very small projects under close supervision of manager.
- Excellent oral written communication skills Ability to perform well under stringent deadline pressure.
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency with MS Office Suite of applications
- Experience using Discovery database platforms tools like Relativity, Brainspace, Everlaw, Nuix, etc.
Experience:
- Prior experience with document review, eDiscovery, and data breach.
- 3+ years in Law Industry with extensive experience in document review and data breach.
Qualifications:
- Minimum LLB
- LLM (would be an added advantage)
- Experience in managing PII, HIPPA, and DSAR reviews desired.
Company Information
Elevate is the Law Company. We provide consulting, technology and services to law departments and law firms. The company's legal, business and technology professionals extend and enable the resources and capabilities of customers worldwide. Elevate's achievements and distinctions include:
- For the seventh consecutive year, in 2022, Chambers & Partners named Elevate as a Top Global Services Provider, ranking us as Band 1 (highest ranking) in all applicable categories (Contract Lifecycle Management, Litigation Services, and Flexible Legal Staffing)
- Co-winner, 2022 Financial Times Collaborative Innovation Award for Industry Impact
- Winner, Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, and 2016
- Named by ALM Intelligence as the only Pacesetter in the Legal category in its 2021-2022 Legal Department Legal Operations report
- The first non-lawyer-owned global legal services provider to receive an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) License to provide legal services in the US
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