Practice Support Senior Technical Analyst

This is an exciting opportunity to work for one of the top law firms in the U.S.! Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is looking for a Practice Support Senior Technical Analyst to join our team in our Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, or San Francisco offices.  This position offers the flexibility to be fully remote while working within reasonable commuting distance from any of the listed offices.   The Senior Technical Analyst (Sr. Analyst) will work directly with the Practice Support Department Manager and broader Practice Support team to guide and support legal teams with exceptional litigation support and eDiscovery services, while ensuring quality and timeliness of each project. This position requires a focus on Relativity technical skills across the product. In particular, the Sr. Analyst will assist with the coordination of all-phases of eDiscovery on matters while executing advanced technical skills, including analytics, early case assessment, document review workflow planning and execution, including active learning and other technology review features, and document productions. The Sr. Analyst is also an active participant in the training, education, and mentoring of fellow team members and case teams (as needed) on eDiscovery processes and procedures, industry best practices associated with electronically stored information, and the use of litigation technologies, specifically the firm’s eDiscovery platform, Relativity. In addition, this Sr. Analyst position will also assist with the completion of social media and website/webpage collections and captures.  The Senior Technical Analyst is responsible for handling multiple projects concurrently and providing technical support to the department and case teams, ranging from strategic level technical expertise and methodologies to effective Relativity database design and back-end operational support. The Sr. Analyst reports to the Practice Support Department Manager and/or the Practice Support ESI Processing Technology Manager, in addition to the Director of eDiscovery and Practice Technologies. At Davis Wright Tremaine, you will find challenging assignments, opportunities for professional growth and community involvement, and a culture of inclusion. DWT fosters inclusiveness and authenticity. Regardless of position, everyone here has a voice and the support is unparalleled. On a typical day you will:

• Sr. Analyst Support
• Standard platform (Relativity) support including primary aspects of Relativity, specifically:
• Creating firm standardized workspaces
• Loading documents, including incoming productions
• Creating custom views and layouts as directed or identified by legal teams and/or document review teams
• Assisting with document searches, including vetting applicable search terms and/or deployment of analytics
• Working with various document production formats, styles, issues, and re-productions
• Manipulating load files (DAT, OPT) to solve problems
• Assist with testing new workflows and new features and integrations
• Advanced features of Relativity, including:
• Working with STRs and vetting and refinement of search term syntax
• Email threading workflows and batch review
• Versed in details and usage of textual near duplicate analysis
• Setting up review batches based on various criteria
• Conceptual analytics, analytics indexes, and clusters
• Security access settings
• Use of Excel, ReadySuite, or other tools to solve technical issues
• Various analyses of documents and metadata
• Native redaction (e.g., Blackout) and other advanced tools
• Active learning and/or other technology assisted review features and support
• Custom workflows and/or using Relativity scripts to solve problems
• Technical troubleshooting
• Department Support
• Support Practice Support Department Manager and assist with development and deployment of department workflows, processes, and documentation to further department initiatives
• Understand, contribute, improve, and evangelize department practices and procedures
• Harness creativity and collaboration with team members to innovate and solve litigation support challenges
• Dedication to self-education regarding eDiscovery industry news, developments, challenges, technologies, and other practice support topics
• Provide visibility to legal