Senior Project Manager, eDiscovery Cyber Services

Job Description

We are a global law firm with a powerful strategic focus and real momentum. Our industry-focused strategy is seeing us take on pioneering work in places that others have yet to reach. Our shared values define our culture and our workplace. You will find us to be unusually collegial, team-oriented, and ready to innovate. We work seamlessly across practices, offices and around the world. This elimination of boundaries has allowed us to evolve into a law firm that works as hard for its culture as it does for its clients.

The Global eDiscovery Services Department offers advanced technology and effective methodologies to support the firm’s disputes lawyers and clients. The Senior Project Manager, eDiscovery Cyber Services, will join a team focused on supporting the firm’s thriving cybersecurity practice. This role involves managing the eDiscovery processes for cyber incident response (CIR) matters and acting as a liaison with third-party providers to ensure the seamless delivery of these complex services.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with legal team, vendor, and client to develop and execute the strategy for handling a CIR matter, from initial identification and analysis through notification and reporting
• Provide legal team and client with effective CIR solutions through complex modeling, statistical sampling protocols and strategic application of technology
• Coordinate with forensic vendor, legal team and client regarding secure assessment and transfer of exfiltrated data to eDiscovery platform
• Leverage scripting techniques to validate and compare activity logs of compromised systems
• Coordinate with legal team to analyze and document impact assessment results, classify sensitive data categories for further analysis, and consult on high impact sources containing sensitive data
• Coordinate with legal team and vendor to scope and define workstreams for review and extraction of sensitive data
• Support data normalization, entity deduping and notification and reporting workstreams.
• Perform customized reporting to create entity level and document level review metrics, including application of SQL queries to generate ad hoc reports
• Prepare address validation matching queries to support implementation of data from address lookup vendors and clients’ IT systems
• Work with data analysts to analyze entity notification lists for anomalies and near duplication by applying scripts to entity reports
• Leverage SQL and Excel techniques to support and respond to inquiries from legal team, client, and regulators

How you will grow

• Leverage the opportunity of a newly created role to further shape the department’s service model, while also pursuing your own professional development goals
• Participate in the department’s process improvement initiatives
• Learn from industry leaders and lawyers in the firm’s Information Governance, Cyber and eDiscovery practices
• 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 full-time 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
• 5+ years of litigation support and eDiscovery experience
• Minimum of one year experience in managing cyber incident response matters required
• Proficient in VBA and advanced Excel (including pivot tables and complex formulas)
• Experience with applying technology and data mining techniques to identify and classify sensitive data preferred but not required
• Relativity certification preferred but not required
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI and Tableau preferred but not required
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects with high-quality results under tight deadlines
• Ability to closely adhere to procedures and exercise good judgment in sensitive and stressful situations
• Ability to train, manage and delegate while maintaining an active role in driving and completing tasks
• Willingness to provide after hours and weekend support as necessary

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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