Legal Technology Consulting Director - Discovery and Data Management

The posting, as Harbor wrote it

Harbor is seeking a Legal Technology Consulting Director - Discovery and Data Management to join our Corporate Legal Solutions practice. The Corporate Legal Solutions practice provides services to corporate law departments around the areas of Contract Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Legal Management, and Discovery and Data Management. This role is for our Discovery and Data Management service line, which helps Fortune 500 companies establish, refresh, and effectively manage defensible eDiscovery programs. As a Director, you will help lead and deliver on a strong pipeline of legal hold and broader discovery assessment and implementation projects. This remote role is open to candidates nationwide, with a preference for those based in Chicago, our headquarters, where part of the Discovery team is located.

The following is an overview of the services the Discovery team provides to help clients manage their eDiscovery obligations:

• Assess : Conduct eDiscovery process, structure, technology, and spend assessments and provide recommendations to enact change
• Implement : Perform the end-to-end selection, implementation, and migration of legal hold, data preservation, data collection, data processing, ECA, and document review systems
• Enhance : Drive process and program improvement initiatives, including designing operating models and related roles, establishing discovery service preferred provider programs, defining workflows, drafting eDiscovery playbooks, creating discovery dashboards, and more
• Remediate : Profile systems to create data inventories, map data flow for eDiscovery, regulatory, or compliance purposes, advise on good data hygiene, and assist with defensible disposition initiatives
• Support : Provide augmented eDiscovery case management support to drive progress on individual cases, serve as eDiscovery system administrators, and provide legal hold managed services

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead multiple client engagements and relationships
• Oversee all aspects of project delivery and administration
• Mentor and guide team members to drive timely completion of high-quality client deliverables
• Cultivate strong client relationships by consistently delivering exceptional service
• Contribute to business development and marketing initiatives to fuel team and company growth

Client and Project Management

• Facilitate workshops with senior legal and IT stakeholders to understand current state processes and gather future state goals and objectives
• Benchmark eDiscovery processes, technologies, reporting and metrics, cost structures, spend, and team structures against industry best practices
• Identify eDiscovery service providers and available technologies to satisfy client requirements
• Develop and present recommendations and implementation roadmaps to client leadership teams on how to mitigate risk, lower costs, scale, and/or achieve operational efficiencies
• Map current state workflows to new technolog

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ence and education

• Demonstrated knowledge of the following areas:
• Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM)
• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)
• Industry leading eDiscovery technologies and service providers
• eDiscovery stakeholders and their typical roles and responsibilities
• Common legal operations and eDiscovery platform integrations
• Information governance and good data hygiene practices
• IT implementation methodologies and controls
• Managing project budgets, resources, and timelines
• Ability to independently managing multiple concurrent engagements and clients
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills (written, via data and deliverables, and verbally)
• Keen attention to detail and capability to prepare polished client deliverables
• Willingness to self-study and learn new concepts or technologies to solve problems
• Aptitude and desire to learn and develop generative or other AI-enabled solutions
• Have permanent US work authorization

About Us

Harbor is the preeminent provider of expert services across strategy, legal technology, operations, and intelligence. Our globally integrated team of 900+ strategists, technologists, and specialists navigate alongside our clients – leading law firms, corporations, and their law departments – to provide essential resources and invaluable insights. Anchored in a rich heritage of deep knowledge, steadfast relationships, and mutual respect, our unwavering dedication lies in shaping the future of the legal industry and fostering enduring partnerships within our community and ecosystem.

Harbor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, national origin, ancestry, age, parental status, disabled status, veteran status, or any other legally protected classification, in accordance with applicable law.