Practice Support Project Manager

Responsibilities

Assisting attorneys and paralegals with search queries, email threading, document review database analytics, creation of custom tags, review batches, batch-printing, reports, exhibit/case management, productions, depositions, and trial presentations.

Monitoring and managing the team's email inbox, ensuring that all incoming communications are reviewed promptly and providing timely and professional responses to internal and external stakeholders.

Crafting clear, concise, and professional emails that effectively convey complex information, ensuring mutual understanding and alignment with project objectives.

Collaborating with the team to define project timelines and project milestones within the litigation lifecycle.

Maintaining comprehensive project documentation such as chain of custody and project trackers.

Supporting the development of best practices and tools for project execution and management.

Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains.

Qualifications

Display a strong understanding of e-discovery and the e-discovery reference model (EDRM).

Demonstrate strong project management skills, with an emphasis on directly supporting teams of attorneys and support staff.

Possess the ability to quickly learn new skills.

An associate’s degree; a minimum of six (6) years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

A minimum of five (5) years of technical experience in a legal environment or at a vendor specializing in providing legal technology processing services.

Benefits & Additional Information

Successful candidates will not only be provided with an outstanding career opportunity and welcoming environment, but will also be provided with a generous total compensation package with bonuses awarded in recognition of both individual and firm performance.

Eligible employees can participate in Latham’s comprehensive benefit program which includes:

• Healthcare, life and disability insurance
• A generous 401k plan
• At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
• Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
• Professional development programs
• Employee discounts
• Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff

Latham & Watkins is an equal opportunity employer. The Firm prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race (including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status (including veterans of the Vietnam era), gender expression, marital status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by applicable statute.

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Pay Range: USD $120,000.00 - USD $160,000.00 /Yr.