Role overview
RPC are seeking an experienced eDiscovery Project Manager to join our eDiscovery team. The team is a developed practice delivering high quality eDiscovery and legal technology solutions to RPC's legal teams and end clients. We support a wide range of discovery work, including cyber incident response, DSARs, investigations, and litigious exercises.
You will work collaboratively with RPC legal teams, providing clear, accessible support throughout all stages of the EDRM, advising as to the most efficient and effective solutions, and contributing to the ongoing development of RPC's eDiscovery practice.
We are committed to your professional development, offering a comprehensive range of learning opportunities to ensure you remain at the forefront of the legal sector. This includes ongoing training delivered by our in-house experts, leading external providers, and specialist programmes.
Key responsibilities
- Early engagement with legal teams around eDiscovery requirements, consulting and advising on appropriate solutions.
- Provide leadership in developing and enhancing eDiscovery services, driving process improvement, technology adoption, and knowledge sharing, while ensuring best practice and consistently high-quality outcomes.
- Ongoing proactive communication and consultation with legal teams, managing expectations around timing and cost, offering alternative solutions, and making reasoned recommendations.
- Driving workflow efficiency by identifying, evaluating, and integrating AI technologies and automation tools into eDiscovery processes.
- Troubleshooting technical issues throughout the project lifecycle.
- Delivering high quality and timely output to internal and external clients.
- Managing multiple eDiscovery projects of varying complexity on a range of platforms.
- Being a team player, working with the team towards an environment of constant improvement, enthusiastically sharing with and helping others, and taking responsibility for aspects of team development, such as process improvement, training, and research.
- This role is available either on a remote basis or from our Bristol office. The role reports to the eDiscovery and Client Data Manager, who is based in Bristol.
Knowledge, skills and experience
- Minimum of 3 years' experience of managing eDiscovery projects.
- Experience of Relativity is essential, accreditations preferable.
- Practical understanding of the EDRM and eDiscovery best practice.
- Legal or computer science degree desirable, not essential.
Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
We are problem solvers. Whether in front of clients or behind the scenes. To solve problems creatively for clients, we need diverse collaborative thinking; drawing on different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives. That means that everyone who either applies to, or works for, the firm is treated equitably. We believe in removing barriers to equal access not least because our people define us and define what we do. If you need support and adjustments to do your best work, whether that's during the recruitment process or throughout your time at RPC, we're here to help.
Flexible working that supports your commitments outside of work is an important part of our culture and, where possible, we will support this across all roles. Please get in touch with our recruitment team if you have any questions about our hybrid working approach or flexible working policy.
Recruitment policy
RPC manages all vacancies via our recruitment team. When external support is needed, roles are released to select agencies subject to RPC standard terms and conditions.
Speculative or unsolicited CVs or profiles sent to any RPC employee or partner will not be accepted as an introduction, and no fee will be payable. For full details of our Agency Policy, please go to our website.
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