Project Manager, eDiscovery Staffing

What is special about Lighthouse?

Lighthouse is built on a foundation of unique, compassionate, highly driven individuals.   We elevate the strengths and talents of those around us while leveraging opportunities for growth. We offer the experience of solving complex problems while continuing to grow multiple facets of your career. Lighthouse is where innovation meets support and where collaboration is the key ingredient to success.  We grow together and are stronger together. 

What’s unique about this role?

As the eDiscovery Staffing Project Manager, you will be a dedicated team member and subject matter expert seconded to a client to help execute their eDiscovery and document review initiatives. As such you will contribute to designing, implementing, and reporting on customer’s programs such as eDiscovery, collection, document review, legal hold, and legal technology solutions. This includes both supporting the client by executing tasks across the eDiscovery lifecycle including having the knowledge of and ability to provide solutions with the other dedicated secondees as well as leveraging the peripheral Lighthouse teams when needed. In aligning with solving the client’s problems, you will ensure that they are aware of and leverage as many of Lighthouse’s solutions as possible to maximize efficiency and value.

• Able to maintain strict confidentiality of the firm's internal affairs and client information.  Understands ethics of position including ethical rules in regards to confidentiality, billing, and client representation and advocacy.
• Able to interact effectively and professionally with clients and all levels of personnel, including attorneys, co-workers, management and support staff.
• Must be flexible in order to respond quickly and positively to shifting demands and opportunities; able to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple, detailed tasks.
• Able to own professional development by seeking out feedback and learning new skills.
• Able to embrace new processes and incorporate new technology to meet client demands as they evolve.
• High attention to detail and able to follow up and follow through.
• Excellent organization and project management skills.
• Must deliver high quality work product and display ownership, having the ability to follow up and follow through.
• Must possess the ability to work independently, as well as on teams, in a fast-paced environment.

What will this person do?

• Contributing to the delivery of solutions to meet the client’s needs 
• Ensuring the clients are aware of and informed about the breadth of Lighthouse’s products and services promoting expansion when appropriate  
• Helping to assess metrics, and quality steps for discovery  
• Assisting to refine workflow requirements, , and to implement technical discovery solutions 
• Executing work for the client in and Relativity to facilitate cases and investigations moving forward
• Serving as a key go-to resource for the client’s in-house legal teams for day-to-day task execution across the myriad of supported departments  
• Track, maintain and help to coordinate paper and electronic document collections, reviews and productions, and client files, including corporate minute books, board books and stock records. Calendar and maintain deadline-driven documents and filings.
• Assemble and provide quality checks on exhibits and appendices for court filings and/or hearings, depositions and trials. Utilize Adobe to assist and prepare e-binders and hard copy binders for case teams.
• Obtain docket sheets and other court papers utilizing electronic tools such as PACER. Utilize legal research software such as Westlaw and Lexis/Nexis for case retrieval and citation reference.
• Prepare for and attend depositions, hearings trials and arbitrations and client and team meetings.
• Communicate, correspond and interact with clients and outside entities, such as government agencies, expert witnesses, corporations and other law firms to gather information or data.
• The position will work closely with the Spectra team and customers to achieve these objectives.   
• Create and modify searches in Relativity to efficiently identify relevant documents for case team review.
• Perform quality control checks on processed data and productions, ensuring compliance with production specifications and applicable agreements.
• Willingness to learn database creation, management (creating user accounts, granting access) and data import and export.
• Create and maintain coding panels, issue tags, and custom field