The work of the Discovery Center team involves:
Responding to and providing advice, guidance, information, and support to home office business partners, branches, and/or clients related to:Third-party subpoenasCourt ordersNon-wage garnishments and leviesAssisting on regulatory matters, lawsuits, and arbitrationsAnalyzing our incoming matters and coordinating with potentially impacted partners to mitigate riskLeveraging data, experience, legal research, and technology to spot trends, maintain consistency and create guardrails and guidance for the firm*Responsibility Summary:*
Work flexibly across different work streams, particularly including litigation, third-party subpoenas and regulatory requests.Provide support for eDiscovery and other services, including tracking and controlling data collection activities, interpreting data requests, searching, analyzing, organizing data for production, and importing and exporting data to/from case management software or other systems for eDiscovery purposes.Keep abreast of current best-practices, emerging technologies and solutions in the context of eDiscovery, particularly as it relates to custodian data from emails, chat, etc.Troubleshoot, research, diagnose, and resolve reported incidents and issues in collaboration with others.Proactively contribute to continious improvement of eDiscovery services.Assist others on the team with aspects of matter management that may involve greater risk, sensitivity or complexity.Some general case and matter management responsibilities, prioritized by complexity, risk and volumes, which may include interviewing witnesses or stakeholders, review and analysis of financial records, legal documents and regulatory inquiries in order to prepare final or near final responses/statements/affidavits or give guidance, and file maintenance.Legal research with minimal direction needed (e.g., state statues and rules of procedure).Front-line communications with home office associates, branch teams, outside counsel, courts and regulators.Provide support to in-house attorneys and legal professionals and, as needed, external attorneys and paralegals representing the firm.Appropriately identify and safeguard private, sensitive and privileged information.Analyze and summarize various case-related records and other information as needed.Train and guide colleagues and contractors as necessary (e.g., new technology, new procedures, etc.).Participate and, as needed, present in team and other group settings.Assist in special projects, as needed.Bachelor's degree or paralegal certificate required.
Minimum five years experience in a functionally-equivalent environment (i.e., prior experience in a private practice or in-house litigation or legal-regulatory environment) required.
Understanding of the legal and regulatory environment applicable to financial institutions.