Project Manager, eDiscovery Cyber Services

Job Description

At Norton Rose Fulbright, people thrive because of a shared commitment to quality, unity and integrity. The highly regarded law firm consistently receives recognition from Great Place to Work and Top Workplaces, two companies that specialize in assessing organizational culture. Teams collaborate across regions, value new ideas and deliver meaningful client solutions, supported by a culture that embraces ambition, development and shared success. With more than 3,000 lawyers and 3,000 business services professionals working together across 50 offices worldwide, this global law firm provides a full range of legal services to leading corporations and financial institutions operating in key markets and sectors.

The Global eDiscovery Services Department provides strategic technology and proven methodologies to the firm’s disputes lawyers and clients. The Project Manager, eDiscovery Cyber Services will be part of a team that supports the firm’s thriving cybersecurity practice area. The Project Manager will be dedicated to supporting the eDiscovery processes of cyber incident response (CIR) matters and will function as a liaison to third party providers involved in the delivery of this complex service. 

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Work with legal teams, preferred CIR providers and clients to develop strategy for analyzing and reporting on impacted data. This includes, but is not limited to, initial file listing analysis, document review, extraction, normalization and notification
• Support legal teams throughout the CIR process in the rigorous application of statistical sampling, search term calibration and other related analytics
• Coordinate with legal teams and vendors to scope and support review and extraction of sensitive data by teams of contract personnel
• Work with legal teams and CIR providers to analyze and report on key metrics regarding the exfiltrated data types and sources
• Support data normalization, entity deduping and notification and reporting workstreams both inside and outside of review platform (Relativity)
• Analyze and report on reviewer productivity and quality metrics
• Support and update documentation reflecting key actions taken throughout the project

How you will grow

• Learn from industry leaders and lawyers in the firm’s Information Governance, Cyber and eDiscovery practices
• Participate in the department’s process improvement initiatives
• Participate in SMART goal initiatives aimed at professional development and achieving career objectives

Other duties

Please note this job description does not cover or contain all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

This position is remote and can therefore be located in any city where we have a US office. Flexibility to visit the office for training or meetings is required.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required
• Minimum of three years of experience in litigation support, eDiscovery, technology assisted review and project management, preferably including direct experience supporting CIR matters
• In lieu of bachelor’s degree, seven years of relevant experience in litigation support, eDiscovery, technology assisted review and project management
• Proactive interest to research different technologies as it relates to project requirements
• Advanced Excel skills required, including XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, Power Query, and Power Pivot/DAX, along with experience analyzing, formatting and reporting large structured and semi-structured data sets
• A minimum of two years of Relativity experience required
• Excellent analytical, problem identification and resolution skills
• Experience with discovery involving complex structured and unstructured data
• Understanding of sensitive data elements including PII, PHI and GDPR
• Experience with applying technology and data mining techniques to identify and classify data
• Ability to work efficiently under rigorous deadlines in high-pressure situations with limited direction
• Flexibility and availability to work across a broad range of business hours, including early mornings, evenings and occasional weekends to support time-sensitive matters and global stakeholders
• Familiarity with database concepts and technologies, such as MS SQL, Access and Oracle
• Ability to support multiple projects simultaneously with consistently high quality results
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to closely adhere to established procedures and exercise good judgment in sensitive and stressful situations

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is committed to providing employees with a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that supports you, your health, and your family. Benefit packages include access to three medical plans, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance. Employees can also access pre-tax benefits such as health savings and flexible spending accounts. Norton Rose Fulbright helps provide financial security by allowing employees to participate in a 401(k) savings plan and profit-sharing plans if eligible. Full- time employees are eligible to access fertility benefits designed to support fertility and family-forming journeys.

In addition to the Firm’s health and welfare benefits above, we offer a competitive paid time off plan, which provides a minimum of 20 days off based on your role and tenure with the firm. The firm offers a generous paid parental leave benefit allowing parents to take a minimum of 14 weeks of paid leave to bond with your newborn, or adopted child(ren). Employees are also entitled to 11 Firm holidays.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal laws and their implementing regulations that require the collection and recording of certain data and information. The information we receive will not be used to make any decision regarding employment and will be kept separate from your application. Similarly, self-identification information is kept confidential and used only in accordance with applicable federal laws and regulations. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to providing reasonable accommodation as an Equal Opportunity Employer to applicants with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation to complete your application, please contact us.hr@nortonrosefulbright.com. Please provide your contact information and a description of your accessibility issue. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the firm, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).