Legal Discovery Project Manager

Job Description

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 2 years of experience in consulting/program management with a focus on discovery support or legal operations

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with SQL/MySQL and relational databases, as well as using business intelligence tools or dashboarding tools to track and report on metrics
• Project management certification or training
• Process-oriented and able to effectively manage complexity and multiple stakeholders
• Proactive, entrepreneurial approach to anticipating issues and solving problems
• Able to see the big picture and make connections, possessing strong business judgment and strategic thinking
• Comfort navigating online document review platforms

About the job

Our Legal team needs more than attorneys to keep things moving. Our Legal Operations team is charged with improving and maintaining the Legal team's internal processes, systems and tools. Responsible for tracking objectives, coordinating financial planning and solving technology challenges, you are entrepreneurial, proactive and highly organized. You keep costs down, engage third-party vendors and make the Legal team's services better, faster and more efficient.

As a Legal Discovery Project Manager for the Discovery and Litigation Support Team, you'll play an integral role in supporting Google's Lead and Outside Counsel on litigation and investigations. You’ll work with technical data exports and support multiple, fast-paced matters at once. Your responsibilities will include assisting in the day-to-day management of Google's data collection, processing, and production efforts, as well as serving as a solutions consultant on complex, cross-functional projects. You'll work closely with both internal stakeholders and external vendors with the goal of creating and managing the most efficient and cost-effective processes to support Google's responses to legal requests.

In this role you will be both strategic and operational. With a broad view of how Legal supports the business strategy, you will be relied on as a thought partner (strategic) and solutions-finder (operational), utilizing your resourcefulness and your creativity to connect people and issues to drive progress. This is a fast-paced role where each day will be different from the next and will offer diverse and interesting challenges.

20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Serve as project manager on a variety of legal matters, including patent and general litigation, internal and regulatory investigations, as well as competition matters
• Coordinate activities between in-house counsel, external counsel, and the operations team responsible for data collection, processing, hosting, and production
• Support the continuous improvement of discovery workflows and processes
• Assist in the development of new workflows and related documentation

Location

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