eDiscovery Specialist

City Of Chicago • Chicago, IL

412d • $80,628 - $80,628

About The Position

The eDiscovery Specialist is responsible for managing the identification, preservation, collection, and analysis of data related to eDiscovery and litigation requests within the Department of Technology & Innovation. This role involves working closely with various stakeholders to ensure compliance with information requests and to support legal processes through effective data management and analysis.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Law, or a directly related field.
• Three (3) years of eDiscovery experience, technical litigation support, or public records research, analysis, and reporting experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Responsibilities

• Receives, reviews, and prioritizes internal and external information requests for electronically stored data, images, and documents.
• Follows established guidelines and requirements to validate requests for information.
• Tracks and manages information requests from various sources and ensures expectations and deadlines are met.
• Fulfills ESI data collection, data processing, and document production in response to discovery requests.
• Constructs and executes complex queries across various systems to fulfill eDiscovery/ESI search requests.
• Extracts, indexes, merges, and manipulates large and multiple data sets.
• Uses discovery and legal review software to extract information from internal and external data sources.
• Exports data from various sources and uses application tools to organize and convert information into a variety of formats.
• Validates large volumes of data sets for accuracy and completeness and resolves discrepancies of duplicate, incorrect, or missing information.
• Prepares reports to summarize findings and provides data to support analysis of FOIA landscape.
• Provides consultative services to internal City stakeholders relating to the planning, design, development, and implementation of public records related technology and database systems.
• Works closely with Department of Law and confers with attorneys to discuss the methodology and results of findings.
• Acts as subject matter expert on eDiscovery procedures and digital records coverage; stays up to date on relevant discovery software functionality and updates.
• Works with supervisor and Department of Law to develop and maintain business procedures for end-to-end eDiscovery processing, including data collection, recordkeeping, case processing, and export/production.
• Maintains a level of understanding of the business uses for the databases/systems from which data is being requested.

Benefits

• Starting Annual Salary: $80,628.00
• Flexible working hours from 8:00am to 4:00pm, Monday to Friday.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
• Education Level: High school or GED