eDiscovery Coordinator

About us:

Linklaters is a global law firm, with 31 offices in 21 countries worldwide.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

The Role:

We are looking for an eDiscovery Coordinator to support the delivery of global eDiscovery projects, reporting into the eDiscovery Senior Technical Lead. You'll collaborate across UK and US teams to optimise legal operations and enhance client value. This role offers variety, visibility, and the chance to shape outcomes in a dynamic and high-performing team.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Helps process and organise collected data, preparing it for review and analysis by legal teams, while ensuring data integrity and security.

• Maintains detailed records of data collection, processing activities, and chain of custody documentation to ensure traceability and accountability.

• Operates eDiscovery software and tools to facilitate efficient data review and management, and assists with troubleshooting any technical issues that arise.

• Ensures all eDiscovery activities are defensible and comply with relevant procedures and guidelines to mitigate risks.

• Carry out eDiscovery tasks, such as setting up and customising review platforms, processing data, running searches and culling data, creating review batches, customising coding templates and creating user roles

• Provides basic training to internal stakeholders on eDiscovery tools and processes, enhancing overall team proficiency and understanding.

• Contributes to the evaluation of eDiscovery processes and makes suggestions for improvements, supporting the development of best practices and enhanced efficiency.

• Establish and maintain relationships with key business stakeholders, such as the practice, technology etc.

What we're looking for:

• Experience in managing eDiscovery tools and handling of electronically stored information (ESI) in a global professional services firm, preferably in the legal sector.

• Experience in overseeing the collection, processing and storage of large volumes of ESI, and ensuring technical activities adhere to security protocols and compliance standards.

• 2:1 Degree (or equivalent)

• Previous experience or formal training in a technology, data processing or eDiscovery related field.

What's on offer:

This role can be based in our London offices, with a hybrid working model available.

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance

• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships

• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance

• Pension and flexible savings options

• Income protection and life assurance

• Mortgage advice and will-writing services.

Family & Lifestyle

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes.

• Emergency family care

• Additional holiday/birthday leave.

• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave.

• Travel insurance and season ticket loan

• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders ( [email protected] for legal roles or [email protected] for business team roles).