Staff Attorney - eDiscovery

The role

This Staff Attorney will support the litigation practice with an emphasis on defending cases involving personal injury, consumer health products and other consumer goods. The role involves assisting litigation teams with eDiscovery workflows, document review, and trial preparation.

What you will do

• Assist litigation teams with eDiscovery and related projects, including some written discovery, in large MDLs, class actions and mass torts
• Assist with the management of and execution of eDiscovery workflows across matters, including identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, and production of ESI
• Conduct responsiveness and privilege analysis, create and run searches and analytical queries, manage coding and assist with production
• Conduct second-level document review for relevance, privilege, confidentiality, and key issues
• Partner with case teams to develop and execute review strategies, including use of analytics and technology-assisted review (TAR)
• Assist with preparing draft responses to discovery related documents such as requests for production, confidentiality challenges, etc.
• Assist in preparing privilege logs and redactions
• Support deposition and trial preparation through identification and organization of key documents
• Prepare fact summaries, case chronologies, and case analyses to support motions, hearings, and trial strategy

Required qualifications

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school
• Admission in good-standing with the State Bar
• Minimum 2+ years of litigation experience in eDiscovery, litigation support, or complex litigation
• Experience with leading eDiscovery platforms (e.g., Relativity, Everlaw, Disco, or similar)
• Effective communicator with excellent project management skills and attention to detail
• A proactive and collaborative mindset, with a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and innovation
• Strong organizational skills, analytical ability, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Nice to have

• Experience with personal injury, product liability and mass tort litigation
• medical malpractice or commercial litigation experience
• Familiarity with TAR, analytics tools, and data visualization techniques

Benefits

• health and life insurance
• paid time off
• medical/dental/vision benefits

Before you apply

• attorney must put any existing or future projects (self-employment or at other firms) on pause for the duration of the position
• cannot work for their own practice or another firm while employed with us

About the company

Barnes & Thornburg LLP is an AmLaw 100 firm nationally recognized for its product liability and mass tort litigation.