IP Litigation Support Project Manager
Mission & Culture
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Job Description
The Project Manager leads complex pharmaceutical IP litigation matters, including Hatch-Waxman ANDA and BPCIA biosimilar disputes. This role involves disciplined planning, execution, and governance, coordinating with legal, scientific, regulatory, and business teams.
Key Responsibilities
Matter Planning & Execution: Lead matter intake, develop clear scope, assumptions, risk assessments, budgets, and milestone-driven plans. Proactively identify and resolve issues, ensuring continuity and disciplined execution.
Litigation & Workstream Management: Coordinate key litigation activities, including discovery, expert engagement, claim construction, and trial preparation. Ensure alignment and execution across legal, expert, and technical workstreams.
Governance & Cross-Functional Coordination: Establish clear roles, reporting cadences, and escalation pathways across stakeholders. Align legal, scientific, regulatory, and business teams through structured communication and planning.
Scientific & Technical Support: Partner with R&D, regulatory, and commercial teams to support IP strategy and litigation readiness. Organize and manage complex scientific and technical materials, including clinical and lab data.
Information & Data Management: Oversee document and data workflows, including collection, review, production, and tracking. Coordinate vendor activities across data-intensive and technically complex datasets. Ensure defensible, organized processes aligned with litigation requirements.
Budget & Vendor Oversight: Support phase-based forecasting, accruals, and spend tracking. Manage outside counsel and vendor performance, invoicing, and compliance with agreed terms. Provide financial transparency and reporting across all resources.
Process, Technology & Reporting: Support implementation and effective use of litigation tools and processes. Recommend best practices across project management, data management, and workflow optimization. Deliver concise, executive-ready reporting on status, risks, milestones, and financials.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Requires strong collaboration across a diverse stakeholder group, including in-house legal leadership, outside counsel, scientific & technical teams, regulatory stakeholders, finance, procurement, and vendors.
Required Qualifications
Proven experience managing complex litigation or legal operations programs with multiple workstreams.
Strong project management capabilities, including scheduling, risk tracking, and executive reporting.
Experience coordinating discovery, vendors, and data-intensive workflows in a defensible manner.
Ability to operate effectively across legal, scientific, regulatory, and business stakeholders.
Demonstrated strength in budget management, vendor governance, and financial oversight.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complexity into clear, actionable insights.
Highly organized, self-directed, and able to manage competing priorities in fast-paced environments.
Preferred Experience
Pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences litigation experience.
Familiarity with Hatch-Waxman ANDA or BPCIA biosimilar disputes.
Experience supporting expert-driven, technical litigation matters.
Exposure to e-billing, legal spend management, and outside counsel oversight.
5–10 years in legal operations or litigation project management.
Background in law firm or in-house litigation support environments.
Success Measures
Matters are launched with clear plans, governance structures, and financial discipline.
Cross-functional teams remain aligned and informed throughout execution.
Discovery, expert, and trial activities are timely, organized, and well-managed.
Leadership receives accurate, concise reporting on status, risks, and spend.
Outside counsel and vendors meet defined performance and cost expectations.
Compensation
The compensation range for this role is $40-$50 USD hourly and may be eligible for an annual bonus. Your specific salary will be determined based on several factors: Location-based market rate for the role, Your abilities in relation to the job specification, Performance during screening and interview, Pay parity with the wider team in the considered location.
Benefits
Further details about the package will be provided during the initial screening call with the Talent Acquisition Team. Click Here To Learn About Epiq's Benefits.
Equal Opportunity
Epiq is committed to complying with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws. We prohibit unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. In addition, Epiq will take affirmative action for minorities, women, covered veterans, and individuals with disabilities.