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<p>Senior Staff Attorneys – remote - for top tier law firm. Positions are remote but candidates must live within commuting distance to an office in San Francisco, Palo Alto or Los Angeles, CA.</p><p><br></p><p>Primarily responsible for supervising teams of Staff Attorneys and/or contract attorneys working on large litigation, investigatory, and regulatory matters in the discovery phase.</p><p><br></p><p>Ensure the review teams are meeting quality/output expectations and coordinate between the review team and the associates/partners on cases. Senior Staff Attorneys may also perform document review and analysis work.</p><p><br></p><p>Duties: Supervision of document review teams ensuring team members are working efficiently and meeting quality and output expectations. Enable communication between document review team and the associates/partners on the case. Coordinate with the litigation support group and/or eDiscovery vendors to resolve end user problems with databases and review systems. Review/analyze/categorize documents/information in online-document review databases and/or hard-copy collections. Assist with review quality control and review metrics reporting processes. Assist in preparing privilege logs and similar tasks.</p><p><br></p><p>Position Requirements: JD from accredited US law school. Current Relativity Review Management Specialist certification required. **Will consider equivalent certification or demonstration of the same skill set. Current Relativity Certified Administrator certification is preferred. Must have a minimum of three years of document review supervisory experience in an AMLAW 100 or 200 law firm working on large litigation matters. Must have active/current good standing in the CA Bar. Flexibility to work OT. Strong prior experience with discovery document review projects/typical workflows. Significant experience with on-line document review systems; Relativity, Nuix Discover, or similar. Fluency in a second language in addition to English is preferred but not required.</p><p><br></p><p>**Please include a cover letter with your resume submission.</p><p><br></p><p>The salary range is $130k plus paid OT, bonus and generous benefits.</p>

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