Senior eDiscovery Specialist

Senior eDiscovery Specialist

The Global Senior eDiscovery Specialist in our Toronto office acts as a catalyst for digital transformation in litigation and investigations, leveraging advanced AI tools and analytics to proactively identify, preserve, collect, review, and produce ESI. Champions process innovation and continuous improvement, driving smarter, faster, and more defensible outcomes across global matters.

Embraces an AI-first approach, continuously seeking opportunities to integrate AI and automation into workflows. Stays ahead of emerging technologies and legal tech trends, fostering a culture of experimentation, learning, and knowledge sharing within the team

About the Role
In this opportunity as a Senior eDiscovery Specialist, you will be responsible for:   

Legal Compliance & Strategy

• Design and implement next-generation eDiscovery workflows using AI and predictive analytics. Collaborate cross-functionally with Thomson Reuters product team to pilot and evaluate innovative solutions.
• Collaborate with and advise multiple stakeholders across HR, internal audit, technology, compliance, and litigation teams on e-discovery techniques, technologies, and corresponding workflows.
• Provide training and support to stakeholders on e-discovery tools, workflows and best practices.

Legal Holds

• Assist in identifying custodians who should be subject to legal holds in connection with litigation, legal demands for documents, or investigations.
• Assist litigation teams and other stakeholders with preservation of relevant data sources.
• Draft, execute and manage legal holds for legal, regulatory, subpoenas, and internal investigation matters.

Data Management and Collection

• Develop and manage secure handling of ESI across all matters
• Document data sources, custodians, and chain of custody for all preserved and collected data.
• Coordinate and monitor data collection efforts across internal teams and external vendors.
• Assist legal teams with custodian interviews and identification of relevant documents for collection.
• Collaborate with IT, outside counsel, and e-discovery vendors to execute appropriate discovery plans.
• Ensure data privacy measures are adhered to during the collection process.

Document Review & Production

• Configure review workspaces in eDiscovery platforms.
• Provide key insight to the litigation team regarding document review functions, best practices and cutting-edge technology. Prepare document productions in accordance with established protocols and deadlines.

About You
You're a fit for the role of Senior eDiscovery Specialist if your background includes:

• Experience: Minimum 5 years of litigation support and e-discovery project management experience in a law firm or corporate legal department.
• AI Proficiency and Innovation Mindset: Demonstrated experience with AI-powered solutions.
• Technical Proficiency: Strong command of e-discovery/collection platforms and tools such as RelativityOne, Purview and Exterro, including experience with advanced functions. Demonstrated experience with AI-powered solutions.
• Legal Knowledge: Solid understanding of litigation processes, ESI lifecycle, data preservation, and legal hold protocols.
• Soft Skills: Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, ability to work collaboratively and ability to manage large datasets and multiple concurrent matters.
• Education & Certifications: Advanced legal/technical degree preferred, E-Discovery Certifications.

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What's in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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