Position Summary
Lead sophisticated eDiscovery matters while building a broader career in legal services. This is first and foremost a hands-on eDiscovery and litigation support role: your primary responsibility will be to manage complex matters from inception through completion, combining technical expertise, disciplined project management, and practical client advice.
You will serve as the primary liaison among attorneys, clients, review teams, forensic professionals, and vendors, delivering accurate, defensible results on time and within budget. Alongside this core responsibility, you will have opportunities to gain exposure to and manage projects across Konexo's wider services as business needs and your capabilities develop.
Key Responsibilities:
eDiscovery project and matter management
- Manage the full eDiscovery lifecycle, including identification, preservation, collection, processing, early case assessment, review, analysis, production, and disposition.
- Develop matter-specific plans, workflows, timelines, estimates, and budgets. Lead kickoff and status meetings, coordinate resources, and manage multiple matters with competing priorities.
- Track scope, costs, milestones, and quality; communicate changes and their impact; review vendor estimates and invoices as appropriate; and escalate risks early with recommended solutions.
- Maintain clear documentation of requirements, technical decisions, changes, and quality-control results, and provide useful reporting to case teams, clients, and leadership.
Relativity, data, and production
- Build and administer Relativity workspaces, including fields, layouts, views, coding panels, permissions, searches, and review workflows. Manage imports, exports, processing sets, and productions.
- Develop advanced search and culling strategies, including Search Term Reports, email threading, near-duplicate identification, clustering, and conceptual analytics.
- Coordinate defensible ESI collection from Microsoft 365, email, network locations, cloud repositories, mobile devices, and other sources, working with forensic specialists and vendors when needed.
- Manage large, complex data sets; troubleshoot processing and database issues; investigate anomalies; and perform final production quality control against agreed ESI protocols, specifications, and deadlines.
Document review, analytics, and AI
- Design review workflows for responsiveness, privilege, confidentiality, and issues. Establish review protocols and quality controls, coordinate privilege logs, and monitor progress, productivity, quality, and budget.
- Design and manage Technology Assisted Review (TAR), Continuous Active Learning, Review Center, and other AI-assisted workflows. Advise case teams on appropriate use and validation to reduce review volume, time, and cost.
Client advice, leadership, and growth
Consultative advice and executive communication
- Translate complex technical issues into clear, concise presentations and recommendations for senior executives, clients, and partners. Explain options, trade-offs, costs, and risks so stakeholders can make informed decisions.
- Bring a creative, consultative mindset: understand the underlying business need, find practical paths to yes, and propose workable alternatives that enable the business while protecting confidentiality, quality, and defensibility.
- Advise on discovery strategy, ESI protocols, technology, and workflows. Mentor colleagues, provide training, and improve standard procedures, templates, reporting, and quality controls.
Broader Konexo exposure and development
- Build experience across interim resourcing, legal technology and consulting, legal projects, privacy, and managed services, with opportunities to support and manage engagements in these areas alongside your primary eDiscovery responsibilities.
- Collaborate across service lines, learn unfamiliar subject matter, and adapt your project-management approach to different client needs. Remain flexible as priorities change, seek coaching, and put feedback into practice.
You are not expected to arrive as an expert in every Konexo service. Strong eDiscovery delivery comes first; broader assignments offer opportunities to learn, contribute, and grow.
What you will bring
- At least 7 years of eDiscovery, litigation support, or legal technology experience, with substantial responsibility independently managing complex litigation, investigations, or regulatory matters.
- Advanced hands-on Relativity expertise and a strong understanding of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), ESI preservation and collection, processing, review, analytics, production, and disposition.
- Experience with advanced searching, TAR, AI-assisted review, document review quality controls, and large, technically complex data sets.
- Practical Microsoft Access/SQL skills, including creating and modifying queries, working with relational data, and troubleshooting data-related issues.
- Strong project-management and commercial judgment, including developing estimates, managing budgets and vendors, allocating resources, and balancing multiple deadlines.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to make complex technical information clear, concise, and relevant to senior executives, clients, partners, and nontechnical audiences.
- A collaborative, consultative approach: curiosity, creative problem-solving, ownership, flexibility, adaptability, and coachability. You welcome feedback and are willing to stretch beyond your existing expertise.
- An avid user of AI in daily work and personal life, with practical examples of experimentation and improved outcomes. You critically assess outputs and use approved tools in line with confidentiality, security, and client requirements.
- A bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
This is a hybrid role, with a preference for candidates who can work from one of our office locations. However, we are also open to considering highly qualified remote candidates, particularly those located in the Central or Eastern time zones. The range for this position is from $110,00 - $135,000, with offers contingent upon the various factors. The firm’s compensation strategy includes not just a base salary but also comprehensive benefits such as healthcare, paid time off, discretionary merit bonuses, life and disability insurance, retirement plans and tailored learning opportunities.
Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion within our Firm and in the larger legal profession. We believe that diverse skills, knowledge and viewpoints make us a stronger firm. Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP maintains a policy of affording all employees and applicants equal employment opportunities without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity or expression or transgender status), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital or familial status, domestic violence victim status, ancestry, amnesty, citizenship status, ethnicity, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation will not be tolerated in any of the Firm’s offices or any other work-related setting. Qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for a position or to enable them to perform the essential functions of a position for which they are otherwise qualified. EEO
