Litigation Support IT Specialist

Litigation Support IT Specialist

The Litigation Support IT Specialist is a senior level position in the firm's Information department. The Litigation Support IT Specialist will report to the Associate Director, Operations and Infrastructure, of IT, and will support the firm - in particular, the Office of the General Counsel ("OGC") - in all aspects of preserving, searching for, identifying, collecting, harvesting, and producing electronic records and other electronically-stored information ("ESI") in connection with litigation, subpoenas, internal investigations, and responses to other forms of legal process (often referred to, generically, as "e-discovery"). The Litigation Support IT Specialist will also have a dotted line reporting relationship with the firm's Deputy General Counsel.

Essential Functions :

Working with appropriate stakeholders, principally lawyers and the paralegal in OGC, as well as individual ESI custodians :

• Develop and implement procedures / protocols to ensure consistency and effectiveness in preservation of ESI in response to litigation holds and other preservation requests;
• Review and analyze preservation and discovery requests to identify and locate categories of responsive ESI;
• Coordinate with and interview ESI custodians to determine the locations, format, and volume of relevant ESI;
• Conduct the preservation and secure storage of ESI, including forensic images and active-file archives;
• Develop chain-of-custody and record-keeping procedures / protocols;
• Support all aspects of e-discovery, including the collection, harvesting, processing, review, analysis, and production of ESI;
• Assist other IS&T personnel with computer forensic investigation and analysis (for example, in connection with possible data security incidents);
• Work with outside counsel and external litigation-support vendors, as needed;
• Provide other litigation support, as needed;
• Stay current on the latest e-discovery and computer forensics trends and technology; and
• Manage multiple projects at once, often with short deadlines.

Qualifications & Technical Skills :