Senior eDiscovery Technical Advisor (Top Secret Clearance Required)

Employment Type: Full-Time, Executive-Level
Department: Legal

About the role

CGS is seeking a dedicated Senior eDiscovery Technical Advisor to join a fast-paced and hard-working team to assist with legal accounts. As an eDiscovery Technical Advisor, you will play a key role in supporting various aspects of the company's portfolio. CGS brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve the government’s most dynamic problems with cutting-edge technology. We are seeking candidates who are excited to contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at CGS, we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported, and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise in identifying, preserving, collecting, processing, and producing ESI in support of civil and criminal litigation, select FOIA requests, Congressional requests, and other inquiries.
• Provide expertise specifically in criminal discovery support, including identifying, preserving, collecting, processing, and producing ESI.
• Serve as the expert technical user of electronic discovery applications, including Enterprise Vault, Discovery Accelerator, Legal Hold Management Tool (LHMT), and the Veritas eDiscovery Platform.
• Work with the litigation team to develop a discovery plan documenting electronic discovery search parameters (e.g., date range, keywords, and custodians) for a particular case.
• Use electronic discovery software applications to collect data from various FBI storage locations on FBI IT systems (e.g., MS-Exchange servers, shared drives, desktops, text, and instant messages) in accordance with the discovery plan to support OGC attorneys, paralegal specialists, Information Management Division personnel, and case agents responsible for responding to pre-trial discovery motions, requests, subpoenas related to civil and criminal matters, congressional inquiries, FOIA requests, and other inquiries.
• Analyze search/collection results for data gaps.
• Administer data inputs into an electronic discovery review platform (i.e., eDP), including but not limited to: creating cases; adding collected source data; handling user access rights; uploading data logs; de-duplicating collected source data; identifying data gaps; merging/verifying data; and assuring electronic discovery production quality in Bates numbering and load file creation.
• Coordinate electronic discovery collection results with FBI units responsible for processing discovery for review/redaction/release.
• Adhere to policies and technical procedures for use of available electronic discovery software applications and provide agency attorneys, paralegals, and other users of the FBI's electronic discovery review platform with training and technical assistance.
• Provide information and advice on instructions regarding the FBI's process for identifying, preserving, collecting, analyzing, and organizing ESI, including the use of electronic discovery software programs.
• Provide ad hoc support to end users of the electronic discovery review platform repository.
• Document electronic discovery plans and procedures for each individual case.
• Facilitate requests for legal hold implementation, amendment, and/or lift submitted by various requesters in LHMT.
• Provide eDiscovery collections on criminal cases.

Requirements

• 5 years of eDiscovery/litigation support experience with a focus on client solutions.
• 3 years of progressively more responsible experience on major litigation support projects.
• 2 years of experience in Relativity, beyond document review coding.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with both eDiscovery technical teams and non-technical business leaders and team players.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and agile work environment.
• Experience and familiarity with eDiscovery Services covering all realms of the EDRM (File to Trial).
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• The ability to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance (active clearance preferred).
• BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience (JD highly preferred).

About CGS

Contact Government Services (CGS) strives to simplify and enhance government bureaucracy through the optimization of human, technical, and financial resources. We combine cutting-edge technology with world-class personnel to deliver customized solutions that fit our client’s specific needs. We are committed to solving the most challenging and dynamic problems. For the past seven years, we’ve been growing our government-contracting portfolio, and along the way, we’ve created valuable partnerships by demonstrating a commitment to honesty, professionalism, and quality work.

Here at CGS, we value honesty through hard work and self-awareness, professionalism in all we do, and delivering the best quality to our consumers, mending those relations for years to come.

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401k
• Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
• Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays

Pay

$176,400 - $254,800 a year