eDiscovery Project Coordinator

Phelps Dunbar LLP is an AmLaw 200 full-service law firm. This position is remote. The eDiscovery Project Coordinator position is responsible for coordinating technical aspects such as assisting with strategic and legal aspects for all assigned projects and matters involving electronic discovery. The candidate must be highly organized, detail oriented, deploy excellent communication skills, and have a deep understanding of eDiscovery.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as the point of contact throughout the discovery lifecycle, applying in-depth knowledge and experience to provide expert consultation and advice on technology and best practices.
• Consults with case teams to effectively develop and apply technical strategies, requirements, and goals to develop and implement project plans, including data collection, processing, document review, document production and trial.
• Advises legal team on technology options to respond to specific discovery needs including but not limited to recommendations for products to perform early case assessment, document search, and document reviews in the most efficient, timely, and cost-effective manner.
• Ensures standard procedures for electronic discovery and litigation support projects are consistently applied across the life of the case.
• Develops cost estimates and advises on maximizing efficiencies and cost reductions.
• Oversees the creation of statistical reports providing information on collection, filtering, processing, review, and productions.
• Delegates appropriate workflow tasks, including data management, constructing search queries, processing, production, and quality control.
• Coordinates efforts of others in response to discovery requests and provides regular reports and metrics as to the status of each phase of the project.
• Stays abreast of emerging electronic discovery litigation support technology and processes.
• Maintains current knowledge of available software applications and in area(s) of expertise.

Education and Experience Required:

• 4-Year degree preferred.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience providing eDiscovery services and litigation support on complex and large cases involving complex eDiscovery challenges.
• Must have demonstrated exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Must possess detailed planning and organizational skills and have a thorough understanding of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM); especially data collection, review, analytics and production.
• Candidate must possess solid, broad knowledge of Information Technology infrastructures including networks and other sources of data.
• Prior knowledge and experience managing eDiscovery projects and related technologies required.
• Advanced experience planning eDiscovery efforts, managing client expectations, and working with clients to minimize their risk exposure.
• Must be proficient in a wide range of technologies, databases and be knowledgeable as to eDiscovery industry “best practices” including an understanding of multiple tools and processes associated with large scale complex eDiscovery response.
• Must deploy established compliance with all directives for secured handling of documents.
• Must have proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining proper priorities and scheduling on extremely tight deadlines.
• Work as part of an exciting, detail oriented and dynamic team.