Ediscovery Manager

**About Ashurst Advance**

Ashurst Advance is a global leader in the delivery of innovative and digitally enabled legal services. Leveraging our deep experience across delivery, managed services, digital, legal operations and flexible resourcing, we work seamlessly with our legal advisory and risk consulting teams to provide fully integrated solutions to address our client's most complex legal challenges.

Our market leading offering has been globally recognised including:

- Band One in Chambers NewLaw (Global LPO)
- Most Innovative Law Firm, APAC & Europe (FT Innovative Lawyer Awards)
- Most Innovative Firm Headquartered outside Asia-Pacific (Financial Times APAC Innovative Law Awards)
- Innovation in the Business of Law: Client Solutions (Financial Times APAC Innovative Law Awards)

**What we can offer you**

The future of legal services is at the centre of the firm's strategy, and we want to attract the best talent to help us achieve our objectives and grow our unique offering. By joining us you will be at the forefront of change in the legal industry and part of a team devoted to innovation, global collaboration, diversity, and growth. We also offer award winning Learning & Organisational Development and Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging programs and a range of benefits including, subsidised gym membership, discounted health insurance, complimentary health and wellbeing support programs, study support, annual bonuses (in accordance with our bonus scheme), flexible working, and 26 weeks parental leave, to name a few.

If you are looking for a career with a difference and want to be part of a global team working with high profile clients doing cutting-edge work, we would love to hear from you.

**About the role**

Ashurst Advance eDiscovery and Digital Services provides dynamic solutions to our clients' focusing on three key areas of legal service delivery: people, process and technology. Our technologists bring together a combination of market leading data interrogation and review technology platforms that are industry leading and bring AI capabilities to the forefront of our clients and legal teams.

Wherever possible, we adopt a 'follow-the-sun' approach to resourcing - ensuring matters and projects are supported across our Australian and UK offices.

As a result of ongoing growth in the team and a new agenda of service expansion we are looking to hire an eDiscovery Manager in Sydney or Perth. You will be part of a national team providing cutting edge eDiscovery services to our clients and internal practice groups.

This role demands a proactive, solutions-oriented individual with a strong background in eDiscovery, excellent leadership skills, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a broad range of stakeholders.

Please review the job description attached to the role on our careers site for much more detail on the role, responsibilities and what we are looking for.

**About you**
- Minimum of 8 years eDiscovery experience, working in a professional services firm, law firm or government agency.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot technical and non-technical issues that arise during a project and assist in implementing simplistic and repeatable solutions.
- Excellent understanding of the legal framework of eDiscovery including exchange protocols and best practices across the full EDRM model.
- Proven record in using advanced eDiscovery tools, such as GenAI and Continuous Active Learning (CAL) workflows, concept clustering, and search term analysis.
- Ability to oversee and support multiple eDiscovery matters, managing priorities and identifying efficient workflows.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, solutions focused environment with strict deadlines.
- Excellent communication skills, specifically the ability communicate technical solutions to a non-technical audience in a clear and concise manner.
- An acute attention to detail, and ability to develop quality assurance practices into all facets of work.
- Experience leading teams and coaching junior colleagues.
- Proficient with multiple platforms such as Nuix Discover, Relativity and Reveal.
- Understands eDiscovery workflow practices across different jurisdictions is favourable.
- Flexibility and willingness to undertake additional work outside of core hours and/or interstate travel when required.
- Tertiary qualifications in either Law, Computer Science, Commerce, or software engineering.