E-Discovery Staff Attorney

About the role

The Richmond office of McGuireWoods seeks a Staff Attorney to join its Commercial Litigation Department. When company resources and reputations are at stake, clients count on McGuireWoods for help unraveling complex financial structures, strategic transactions and business relationships. Comprising more than 250 lawyers — many of them first-chair trial attorneys — McGuireWoods’ commercial litigation team litigates and defends clients' interests in commercial matters in courtrooms and tribunals around the world. These lawyers bring innovation and a business-minded focus to providing cost-effective, efficient solutions that further clients' business goals. McGuireWoods, one of the world’s leading law firms, has provided legal solutions to corporate, individual and nonprofit clients since 1834. Continually establishing new initiatives and enhancing existing efforts, we focus on meaningful support for our lawyers in their careers.

Responsibilities

• Steer the logistics of discovery from start to finish, establishing a transparent and trustworthy process for the case team and the client.
• Serve as a liaison between case teams, Litigation Support, contract document reviewers or document review services, trial services, the client, and vendors.
• Understand both the substantive and strategic aspects of the litigation to effectively guide discovery operations.
• Take ownership of the discovery process, shepherding projects through planning, collection, processing, review, and production, including the ultimate use of productions in depositions, motions practice, and trial.
• Help determine, document, and execute project planning, scheduling, and technical requirements, including defining budgets, goals, and objectives in collaboration with the case team, client, Litigation Support, and vendors.
• Supervise contract document reviewers or document review services and vendors and ensure case team instructions are followed and expectations are met.
• Keep the case team abreast of progress during discovery operations, reporting on work accomplished, work remaining, and estimated costs and timetables for completion.
• Assist the case team in developing the facts of the case, interviewing witnesses, and transferring relevant information to the document review team.
• Demonstrate flexibility and the ability to adapt to