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Manager, E-Discovery

Hilco Global
2 days ago
Full-time
On-site
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$135,000 - $175,000 USD yearly

Company Overview

Hilco Global is a diversified financial services, advisory, and capital solutions company with a long-standing reputation for helping clients maximize value, solve complex problems, and navigate critical business moments. Across its platform, Hilco provides a broad range of services and solutions spanning valuation, restructuring, advisory, monetization, transactions, and capital solutions for corporations, lenders, investors, private equity sponsors, boards, and legal counsel.

What differentiates Hilco is the strength and breadth of its platform. The firm is trusted in high-stakes, complex, and often time-sensitive situations where financial, operational, strategic, and legal issues intersect. Hilco brings together deep experience, commercial judgment, and execution capability across the business lifecycle - from healthy companies seeking growth or strategic alternatives to stressed and distressed situations requiring decisive action.

Built on that foundation, Hilco Global is expanding its Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice. This growing practice advises clients on matters involving fraud and misconduct investigations, forensic accounting and financial analysis, post-acquisition and other commercial disputes, bribery and corruption matters, asset tracing, investigative due diligence, litigation support, regulatory response, digital forensics and cyber-enabled investigations, e-discovery, and other sensitive situations requiring rigorous analysis, sound judgment, and clear communication.

This is not a standalone niche practice being built in isolation. It is being developed within a powerful platform that already has deep client relationships, strong market credibility, and meaningful adjacency to restructuring, valuation, capital solutions, and other advisory capabilities. For the right professionals, that creates a rare opportunity: the chance to build within an established platform that already matters in the market.

Why Hilco Global

There are many firms that offer investigations, digital forensics, cyber investigations, and e-discovery work. Very few offer the combination of platform strength, market relevance, entrepreneurial upside, and cross-disciplinary opportunity that Hilco does.

Joining Hilco's Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice means joining at a time of strong momentum. The practice is being actively built and expanded, with the benefit of Hilco's broader brand, relationships, and capabilities across capital solutions, restructuring, valuation, advisory, and special situations.

For professionals who are ambitious, commercial, and excited by the idea of helping shape a market-facing practice, Hilco offers a differentiated proposition:

·       A powerful platform behind the practice, with meaningful credibility and access across lenders, investors, boards, law firms, and corporate clients

·       A true build opportunity - the chance to help shape a leading global investigations and disputes offering, not simply join a mature team with limited room to influence direction

·       Complex, high-value matters at the intersection of digital evidence, accounting, finance, investigations, disputes, transactions, restructurings, and distressed situations

·       Cross-platform opportunity, with natural adjacency to Hilco's capital solutions, restructuring, valuation, and advisory capabilities

·       Meaningful responsibility and career upside for professionals who combine technical excellence, sound judgment, and initiative

At Hilco, professionals are not joining a static organization. They are joining a platform with real market strength and the ambition to build a premier practice.

Position Overview

As a Manager in Hilco Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice, you will lead day-to-day execution of e-discovery and document-intensive workstreams in investigations, disputes, regulatory response, litigation support, and other sensitive matters.

You will help clients and counsel manage the discovery lifecycle, including data identification, preservation coordination, collection planning, processing, hosting, review workflows, analytics, production, privilege and confidentiality workflows, quality control, and defensible reporting.

Managers are expected to combine strong technical capability with project management, communication, and team leadership. This role is particularly attractive for professionals seeking broader responsibility and the opportunity to help build a growing e-discovery capability within an integrated investigations and disputes platform.

Key Responsibilities

·       Lead day-to-day execution of e-discovery workstreams, including data identification, preservation coordination, collection planning, processing, hosting, review management, production, and reporting

·       Develop and maintain discovery plans, review protocols, document review workflows, quality-control procedures, privilege and confidentiality tracking, redaction protocols, and production specifications

·       Coordinate with clients, counsel, custodians, vendors, managed review teams, forensic technology professionals, and internal engagement teams

·       Manage Relativity or similar review databases, including matter setup, search term implementation, batching, layouts, fields, coding panels, analytics, redactions, and productions

·       Use analytics, technology-assisted review, email threading, near-duplicate detection, clustering, communication analysis, and other tools to improve efficiency and quality where appropriate

·       Review and synthesize findings from documents, communications, structured data, and other sources to support investigations and disputes

·       Prepare and review client-facing reports, status updates, review metrics, issue summaries, chronologies, and production logs

·       Supervise, coach, and develop Analysts, Associates, review teams, and other team members through active review and feedback

·       Coordinate with senior professionals on engagement planning, budgets, deadlines, data security, and client communications

·       Support proposals, pitch materials, recruiting, training, technology evaluation, and other internal practice-building initiatives

Desired Qualifications

·       Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, business, legal studies, accounting, finance, economics, or a related discipline required; candidates with master's degrees or JD degrees are strongly encouraged and will be prioritized

·       Approximately 4-7 years of relevant experience in e-discovery, litigation support, forensic technology, managed review, investigations, disputes, or related professional services

·       Strong experience managing discovery workstreams and reviewing the work of junior professionals, review teams, vendors, or contractors

·       Experience with Relativity, RelativityOne, Everlaw, Reveal, DISCO, Nuix, Brainspace, Casepoint, Microsoft Purview, Google Vault, or similar e-discovery and review platforms is preferred

·       Strong understanding of the EDRM lifecycle, preservation and collection principles, review workflows, production formats, privilege workflows, redaction processes, and quality-control procedures

·       Strong report-writing, presentation, project management, and client communication skills

·       Ability to manage multiple engagements and deadlines while maintaining high standards of quality

·       Professional credentials such as RCA, CEDS, ACEDS, Relativity certifications, PMP, CFE, or other relevant credentials are a plus

·       Willingness to travel as needed

Annual base salary gross: $135,000 - $175,000. The base salary range represents the estimated low and high end of Hilco’s salary for this position based on geography. Actual base salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. The base pay is one component of Hilco’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include cash bonuses, long term incentives, health insurance, accident and life insurance, and retirement benefits.

Hilco Global is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered on merits and without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, marital status, gender, veteran, or disability status.

Hilco Global strives to comply with all applicable local/state regulations regarding displaying salary ranges. Any offered salary is determined based on relevant factors such as applicant's skills, job responsibilities, prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications and market considerations. In addition, Hilco Global is proud to offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, with options designed to help you make the best decisions for yourself, your family, and your lifestyle. Available benefits are based on eligibility. Our Total Rewards package includes a variety of medical and dental plans, vision coverage, disability and life insurance, 401(k) plans, and a robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support your mental health. https://hilcoglobal.com/careers-about/