eDiscovery Specialist

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)

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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 and a new agenda of service expansion we are looking to hire an eDiscovery Specialist (comparable to a Senior Consultant level) in Australia.

Reporting to one of our eDiscovery Managers you will work as part of a national team providing cutting edge eDiscovery services to our clients and internal practice groups. Responsibilities include:

• Leading matters and the delivery of those through all phases of eDiscovery
• Applying a consultative approach to solving eDiscovery challenges, along with advising key stakeholders on best practices
• Assisting with internal projects to assess and onboard new technology, methodologies and workflows
• Proactively liaising with clients of Ashurst, and internal legal teams to discuss and support eDiscovery matters and best practices

Please review the job description attached to the role on our careers site as it goes into more detail on the role, responsibilities, and what we can offer.

About you:

• Minimum of 5 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 streamlined and repeatable solutions
• Proven record in searching, building structured workflows, and completing productions using technology platform such as Nuix Workstation, Discover, Reveal or Relativity
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, solutions focused environment with strict and short deadlines
• Experience using analytical tools, in particular GenAI and Continuous Active Learning (CAL) workflows or Technology Assisted Review
• A broad understanding of document processing and Evidence handling workflows
• Tertiary qualifications in either Law, Computer Science, Commerce, or software engineering

We value diverse perspectives at Ashurst, so even if you don't feel you meet all of the requirements, we still encourage you to apply.

For more information or if you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process or in the workplace, we encourage you to contact: for a confidential conversation.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Ashurst. We prefer to talk with you personally and are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies.