About Gilbert + Tobin
Gilbert + Tobin is built on enduring values of excellence, trust, respect, integrity and good corporate citizenship. We are a leading firm with over 500 lawyers, trusted by our clients to navigate today’s increasingly complex world.
We are purpose-built for our clients’ most complex work - across transactions, disputes and regulation. Our partners are leaders in their fields, delivering the highest quality of legal advice and providing an exceptional edge for our clients. They also provide our lawyers the opportunity to work with and learn from them. We are innovators in the use of technology, redefining value and service in the legal industry.
Our open, merit-based culture attracts and inspires the best legal talent. Founded in 1988, G+T’s journey has been one of relentless ambition and rapid progress, achieving extraordinary success in just over three decades.
We remain as determined as ever to be the best it’s possible to be
Our Legal Informatics Team
The Legal Informatics team at Gilbert + Tobin specialises in the application of technology to complex and time critical legal matters. Our work enables the handling of large volumes of electronic evidence in disputes and investigations, enabling efficient due diligence in high-profile deals and navigating bespoke datasets. Our expert application of market-leading technologies enables a scalable and secure approach to every legal matter, giving our clients a strategic advantage.
About the role
We are currently seeking a Legal Informatics Manager to lead the delivery of electronic discovery, document management, data room, data analytics and associated legal technology services to the lawyers and clients of the firm. Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the day-to-day delivery of large scale and complex document reviews in Relativity, including data imports, auditing, analytics and modelling, preparation of evidence and data exports;
- Managing eDiscovery processing workflows, including data collection and transfers, preparing and manipulating data, processing, quality control and issue resolution;
- Leading the use of the Relativity aiR suite and other AI-assisted review tools, including workflow design, validation and quality assurance;
- Designing, establishing and improving Legal Informatics best practice workflows for large scale document reviews, investigations and data rooms;
- Advising legal teams on the setup and effective use of Harvey vaults and other technology-enabled legal workflows;
- Leading technical support for Court/Commissions/Inquiries as required and coordinating delivery across Legal Informatics team members;
- Managing due diligence AI tools, virtual data rooms and deal rooms, including allocation of work, quality control and stakeholder communication; and
- Identifying opportunities to improve delivery through data analysis, scripting, automation, integrations and repeatable workflows.
About you
As our successful candidate you should be able to demonstrate the ability to lead high profile and technically challenging discovery, regulatory and transactional matters. You should combine strong technical capability with sound judgement, clear stakeholder communication and the ability to supervise and develop others. You will play an important role in developing the firm’s Legal Informatics capabilities and ensuring matters are delivered efficiently, defensibly and to a consistently high standard. In addition, you will have:
- Substantial experience working on large scale and complex eDiscovery or legal technology matters
- A strong understanding of the eDiscovery process, defensible workflows, quality control and legal matter requirements
- Demonstrated ability to lead matters end to end in accordance with the standard EDRM model
- Superior analytical, problem-solving, project management and communication skills
- Experience supervising technical staff, allocating work and reviewing outputs
- The ability to scope work, manage competing priorities and deliver against agreed timeframes and budgets
Other preferred skills and certifications include:
- Holding a Relativity Certified Administrator (RCA) qualification or equivalent advanced Relativity experience
- Experience designing and implementing Relativity Dynamic Objects and advanced workflows
- Experience using and managing Relativity Integration Points and other integrations
- Strong use of JIRA and Confluence for project and knowledge management
- Command-line and PowerShell interfacing
- SQL scripting and data analysis
- Familiarity with deployment of cloud infrastructure
- Python scripting and workflow automation
- Experience with Relativity application development, APIs or other integration frameworks
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to work calmly under pressure on time critical matters.
What we offer
Gilbert + Tobin will offer you a friendly, flexible and professional working environment. In addition to top of market remuneration, we provide our people with benefits such as up to 26 weeks’ paid parental leave, additional annual leave, a subsidised café and gym membership, end-of-trip facilities, exclusive retail discounts, social events and more benefits, which you can view here: http://bit.ly/GTFLYER
Our Sydney office is based in beautiful sunlit open planned offices with panoramic views of the city and easy access to public transport, restaurants, cafes and exercise facilities.
Additional InformationPlease submit your interest via our career’s website with a resume.
We are committed to providing and maintaining a diverse and inclusive environment and a culture where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute.
