eDiscovery Project Manager

About this role

eDiscovery Project Manager

Full-time · Remote (preference for candidates based on the West Coast)

Fisher Phillips, a premier international labor and employment law firm, is seeking a skilled and experienced eDiscovery Project Manager to join our team. In this essential role, you will support the seamless operation of our eDiscovery services, contributing to exceptional client service and helping the department maintain its commitment to excellence.

The eDiscovery Project Manager plays a key role in ensuring high-quality service to clients and supporting our attorneys and paralegals. This includes performing high-quality billable work, demonstrating expertise in collecting and organizing discovery, using eDiscovery tools, managing data, and overseeing advanced analytics projects.

Individuals in this role are generally expected to record 1,500 or more recorded billable hours during the performance year, which begins October 1 and ends September 30.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise and support attorneys and paralegals across all phases of discovery, including preservation, collection, review, production, archiving, and forensic requests, serving as a subject-matter expert in the firm’s eDiscovery tools and practices.
• Coordinate and execute eDiscovery technical operations, including processing electronically stored information (ESI), database and image loading, production subset creation, and ongoing database maintenance, ensuring compliance with client, court, and regulatory requirements.
• Configure eDiscovery workspaces, manage user access, and provide training and support on litigation applications and databases, particularly Relativity. Administer, maintain, troubleshoot, and resolve application or database issues as needed.
• Partner with case teams to optimize data hosting, reduce costs, and leverage early case assessment (ECA), data culling, artificial intelligence (AI), and advanced analytics techniques such as search terms, email t...