Document Review Services Team Lead

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Job Description:

Summary:

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Team Lead for our Document Review Services team at Epiq Global in Hyderabad, India. The ideal candidate will bring expertise in e-discovery, legal analysis, and project management, and will be responsible for overseeing document review projects, maintaining quality standards, and ensuring timely delivery in line with client expectations.

Job Responsibilities:

• Review documents for relevancy, privilege, and other issues as directed by our clients.
• Assist with research on technical and industry-specific issues.
• Assist with drafting of reports and findings, including the preparation of tables, exhibits, and charts.
• Participate in QC review and prepare draft questions for escalations to clients.
• Create, run, and validate complex searches.
• Creation of review workflow as per client’s requirements.
• Handle document review projects having teams varying from 10–20 members, under the oversight of a review manager.
• Provide status and progress updates on the project.
• Escalate issues and follow up for responses.
• Act as the initial escalation point and SME for the project team.

Key Skills and Competencies Required:

• Sound knowledge of the document review and e-discovery/litigation industry.
• Knowledge of litigation management software: Relativity, Xerox, and/or DocuMatrix.
• Industry-specific subject matter knowledge/understanding.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint).
• Familiarity with the U.S. judicial system and understanding of legal fundamentals, methods, and procedures from the U.S. perspective.
• Good communication skills—both written and oral; strong English reading comprehension.
• Professional demeanour.
• Analytical skills: Independently solves complex problems.
• Decision-making: Exercises good judgment and assumes responsibility.
• Maintain quality standards as per service level commitments.
• Team player, open to feedback, and contributes to building a positive team spirit.
• Ethics: Treats people with respect, keeps commitments, and works with integrity.
• Adaptability to changing needs and deadlines, with the ability to remain calm under pressure.
• Able to evaluate and analyze data from multiple sources in a fast-paced environment.
• Assist in data collection/report preparation on various metrics.
• Should be able to create, run, and validate complex search strings.

Qualification and Experience:

• LLB (three- or five-year program); LLM (optional) from India or abroad.
• Minimum 5+ years of document review experience required.
• Must have hands-on experience with Relativity tools.
• Minimum 1+ years of experience managing a team as a Team Lead.
• Must be comfortable supporting U.S. business hours based on business needs.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

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