Senior Consultant, Advisory Services

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?

The Senior eDiscovery Consultant works as a member of Lighthouse’s Information Governance Consulting team and collaborates with clients and internal operational teams to manage and support work associated with helping organizations expand and update their eDiscovery programs. 

The Senior eDiscovery Consultant will lead client workstreams and work in collaboration with and at the direction of Associate Project Manager(s), Project Manager(s), Associate Director(s), and Managers to ensure project requirements are met.

The role contributes to the execution of world-class program development, providing a consultative approach to problem solving, and identifying critical paths to project completion with a focus on helping clients reduce costs, increase agility, and reduce risk.  

What will this person do?

• Support the client projects by executing project-specific tasks in Microsoft Purview eDiscovery and Relativity including: data loading, searching and analysis (including term normalization and reporting), providing review support (including the use of TAR/CAL where appropriate), and analytics support
• Gain an understanding of the critical paths needed to progress work through the system, and tools used by Lighthouse to manage workflows and develop client relationships
• Work with clients to understand the full end-to-end lifecycle of eDiscovery from a technical perspective, starting with identification, preservation, collection, processing, and review of data in both Microsoft Purview and Relativity 
• Lead client-facing demonstrations of Microsoft Purview and Relativity and related eDiscovery tools
• As requested, participate in project management tasks including custom reporting, kick-off calls, documentation of workflows and standards, and project closure tasks
• Draft client deliverables, including high-level design documents, workflow diagrams, PowerPoint decks explaining technical concepts
• Participate in process improvement initiatives as identified by Information Governance practice team leaders
• Maintain an understanding of eDiscovery, market competitors and the tools used to support the industry, with a special emphasis on Microsoft Purview
• Maintain and grow knowledge and expertise in how Microsoft Purview, Relativity, and Lighthouse-specific eDiscovery tools can form an ecosystem of technology to support the eDiscovery programs of large, multi-national enterprises 

Bring your passion and together we will shine.  It would also be great if you have the following:

• 5+ years’ experience using one or more of the following:
  1. Relativity
  2. NUIX
  3. Microsoft Purview Premium eDiscovery
• Accreditation preferred but not essential OR experience working in-house on a corporate eDiscovery team to support identification, collection, processing, review, and production of ESI using insourced and outsourced technologies and service providers
• Previous experience in an eDiscovery role is essential for this position, applicants without relevant experience will not be considered 
• Willingness to learn and develop skills in a fast-paced and challenging environment
• Eagerness to support sales related activities, i.e., conduct demonstration or support technical discussions during sales presentations
• Ability to read and understand detailed technology documentation 
• Experience working in an eDiscovery environment at either a law firm, service provider, in house or government body
• Experience within Relativity and other eDiscovery software applications (such as Nuix, Brainspace) desirable
• Knowledge of SQL desirable
• Knowledge of Microsoft Purview and PowerShell desirable (not required)
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Office applications, specifically Excel
• Ability to solve problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standards exist
• Strong analytical and logical skills
• Effective written and oral communication skills, including having the ability to deal with difficult situations and manage conflicts to successful resolutions
• Outstanding organizational skills, attention to detail and the ability to multitask
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