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Purpose of Role
What is the primary purpose of the role? How does it contribute to the achievement of overall business objectives?
Description
Staff level typically comprise the first stage (first-line review or "FLR") of the document review process (however, depending on their performance during FLR, they may be elevated to quality control and/or audit functions over the life of a particular project). Stated differently, the core responsibility of staff is to analyze and interpret documents, and to classify them based on their potential relevance to particular legal or factual issues, cases, investigations, or other proceedings. Staff are lawyers who have a solid understanding of court systems (typically of the US, but potentially of other common law jurisdictions such as the UK, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia as well), familiarity with global litigation procedures, and and a good understanding of basic discovery/disclosure concepts, including as these concepts might apply in the context of regulatory inquiries in various common law jurisdictions.
Responsibilities
What are this role’s major responsibilities/accountabilities
Description
- Reviews documents for: legal and/or factual relevance to the case/investigation; legal privilege; and special (matter-specific) concepts as per client instructions. Reviews documents for relevance to the case, privileged and special concepts as per client instructions.
- Good knowledge of e-discovery platforms, including managing individual assignments, and (where the staff is assigned with quality control or audit responsibilities) managing workflow (including the ability to suggest changes to workflow). Staff should work towards attaining a high level of proficiency in at least two e-discovery platforms.
- Attends all mandatory training and certification courses.
- Volume count and accuracy is consistent with project/engagement average.
- Comprehends the case and the subject matter – with training understands the overall purpose of the review and applies that knowledge to future reviews.
- Responsible to analyze and interpret moderately complex documents, and to classify them based on their potential relevance to particular legal or factual issues, cases, investigations, or other proceedings.
- Reviews moderately complex documents for: legal and/or factual relevance to the case/investigation; legal privilege; and special (matter-specific) concepts as per client instructions.
- Reviews for relevance to the case, privileged and special concepts as per client instructions
- Comprehends the case and the subject matter – understands the overall purpose of the review. "
Scope and Impact
- Financial responsibilities (e.g. budget, revenue, OI, gross sales, etc.)
- Business impact and geographic scope of role?
- People management responsibilities? (include typical team size
Description
- Financial responsibilities - NA
- Business impact and geographic scope of role - Critical to delivery of document review services in GDS Forensics center in Pune.
Skills
What are the critical skills that a successful incumbent would possess, e.g. languages, special math or writing skills, experience with specific tools, equipment, computer hardware or software, knowledge of special terminology
Description
- Excellent communication and writing skills
- Good legal knowledge
- Excellent analytical and logical skills
- Basic knowledge of MS word, excel, power point
- Good attention to detail
- Must be computer savvy and able to learn and adapt to e-discovery platforms. With training, able to engage with and understand the logic underlying e-discovery platform functions
Behavioral Competencies
What are the critical competencies that a successful incumbent would possess?
Description
- Exercises good judgment with respect to the protocol: escalates documents and issues when (s) he is unsure; suggests alterations to the protocol as appropriate, and is unafraid to escalate issues pertaining to particular documents or client instructions, even if these differ from what the majority-view on the team.
- Thorough and meticulous – considers all relevant and privilege codes/categories.
- Thorough and meticulous – does not mechanically code for privilege simply because attorney names are present.
- Organized and efficient – handles particular responsibility assigned to him/her quickly and accurately.
- Reasonably effective on the floor in terms of sharing learning/insights with peers/juniors/seniors.
- Spots/addresses/escalates issues that aren’t substantive issues (e.g. a workflow p...