Senior Associate, eDiscovery

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Practice Overview

At Bright Labs, an Ankura Company, we tailor our services to support our clients’ requirements across a variety of matter sizes and types. Our team of eDiscovery and digital forensic advisors provide consulting expertise and end-to-end project management across the full information lifecycle from identification through production, including managed review for investigations, or litigation. Our consultants work collaboratively with clients to design efficient workflows, proactively identify and mitigate risk, apply quality control checkpoints, solve technological challenges, and provide cost-effective solutions. Our eDiscovery and digital forensics advisory team have significant experience with a broad range of industry-standard technologies and procedures. Also, our professionals have served in some of the largest and most globally recognized eDiscovery investigations. For every unique engagement, we carefully customize our approach to ensure an efficient and well-planned deployment of resources and technology.

Role Overview

As a Senior Associate, you will be working closely with the project team to become familiar with the clients' big-picture objectives and challenges and execute critical project deliverables to ensure these objectives are met on time and with the highest quality.  With this knowledge, you will be responsible for designing and executing efficient, innovative analytical workflow solutions to address their issues. 

The role is located in New York City, Washington D.C, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Dallas. It will be a hybrid schedule within one of these locations.

Responsibilities

Will include, but will not be limited to, the following:

• Coordinating with client contacts to provide project deliverables, progress, timelines and advise on strategy, workflow, and best practices

• Designing and implementing intelligent workflow solutions to quickly identify the key facts, details, and merits of the case, and effectively reduce data volumes

• Analyzing and interpreting client requirements and applying them to complex unstructured datasets

• Providing project support to team leads and clients

• Responding to client requests and setting clear expectations to internal and external stakeholders

• Conducting quality control checks to ensure accuracy of tasks/deliverables related to searches, review workflow, productions, processing and exports

• Working with team leads to learn and take ownership of project tasks

• Performing the day-to-day client engagement activities, including interaction with client personnel, internal Bright Labs team members, and other stakeholders involved in the engagement

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a consulting environment overseeing electronic discovery.
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree. Preferred degree in law, engineering, computer science, finance, accounting, economics, information technology, forensics, data analytics, or work experience in a related field

Required Skills & Characteristic

• Possess strong quantitative and qualitative research and analytical skills.
• Possess strong team-oriented personality characteristics: hard-working, thoughtful, and collaborative, with a positive outlook and confidence.
• Familiarity with any of the following products/tools:
  • eDiscovery Review/Processing Platforms: Relativity, Reveal/Brainspace, Disco, Everlaw, CasePoint, Nuix, Law, or comparable. 
  • Forensic Software: EnCase, Cellebrite, Oxygen, BlackBag, FTK.
  • Email Systems: Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes/Domino, eVault, email archive platforms.
  • Collaboration/Cloud Tools: Onna, DropBox, Box, MS Teams, Slack, Jira, or comparable.
• Able to demonstrate excellent communication (written and verbal), mathematical, and organizational skills in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Able to adapt quickly in handling multiple/evolving tasks as a result of new engagements and/or re-prioritized deadlines
• Highly motivated, eager to learn, willing to travel, and able to motivate others
• Able to utilize technology to solve complex problems
• Able to produce high-quality and/or final work product under strict deadlines
• Flexibility to travel as required
• Ability to work extended hours as needed (evenings and weekends)
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future

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