eDiscovery Project Coordinator
New York City; Up to $120K plus OT
Job Description:
The Project Coordinator provides project support and guidance for discovery on large client/matters and develops and executes effective and efficient plans and workflows. The Project Coordinator is part of the Project Management Team and is expected to work on multiple matters at any given time either as an assigned project lead or supporting colleagues within the department. Project Coordinators are expected to guide and train Project Analysts.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plans, coordinates, executes and delivers projects of varying size and scope, ensuring that EDLS team efforts are delivered on time, on budget and meet project specifications and requirements. Projects may include large matters/sets of matters.
- Facilitates communication and collaboration among stakeholders which may include clients, partners, associates, litigation analysts, information technology staff (internal and external), vendors and EDLS staff.
- Consults, collaborates and participates with legal team on client IT assessments, collection planning and meet-and-confers.
- Ensures complete and accurate project documentation is created and maintained, and identifies and escalates potential issues and risks as appropriate.
- Assists in vendor selection and management processes.
- Logs, checks and duplicates media.
- Assists with quality control procedures.
- Assists with day-to-day technical support of review and production databases, e.g., create tags, execute complex searches and print requests, production prep.
- Guides, trains and mentors Project Coordinators and Analysts.
- In addition, responsibilities related to maintaining firm and client information are to be adhered to by all employees. This includes complying with the firm’s information security policies, protecting firm assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference, and reporting security events or potential events or other security risks to management.
Qualifications:
- Demonstrated knowledge of all phases of the discovery lifecycle.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to work effectively with people at all levels both within and outside of the Firm.
- Highly detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
- Exercises sound judgment in a fast-moving environment; able to adapt quickly to evolving project goals and deadlines.
- Effectively interprets and translates technical jargon for attorneys and other case team members.
- Hands-on experience with review tools such as Viewpoint, Concordanceand Relativity.
- Proficient with MS Excel and MS Word.
Education and Experience:
- College degree and 5+ years of experience in litigation support and/or electronic discovery. Law firm experience required.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
