McGuireWoods
E-Discovery Attorney
Charlotte, NC
Oct 26, 2024
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The Charlotte office of McGuireWoods is seeking an E-Discovery Attorney for their Financial Services & Securities Enforcement Department.

The cornerstone of McGuireWoods’ financial services and securities enforcement group is the team’s ability to effectively represent the interests of the vital, growing and increasingly complex financial services sector. This representation includes securities, lender liability, regulatory issues, loan workouts, foreclosures, class actions and credit card-related matters. Lawyers’ experience encompasses the expanding services offered by financial institutions, including recent cases involving securities fraud, failed asset securitizations and defaulted syndicated loans. The firm also represents banks in connection with commercial disputes, business torts and intellectual property matters.


McGuireWoods, one of the world’s leading law firms, has provided legal solutions to corporate, individual, and nonprofit clients since 1834. Diversity and inclusion are essential to how we do business, informing how we recruit, retain and promote lawyers and staff to serve clients. Along with excellent benefits, McGuireWoods offers our attorneys a competitive salary with hours and merit bonus opportunities, billable hours credit for pro bono work, and a hybrid remote option allowing flexibility and work-life balance. Our Applicant Disclosures describe your rights. Our Privacy Statement describes how we will process and safeguard your personal data.

  • Qualified candidates will have 2+ years of e-discovery experience and ideally, litigation experience as well. 
  • Manage discovery start to finish from preservation through review and production and creation of privilege logs. 
  • Advising the client on preservation issues and assisting with the implementation of the hold.
  • Interviewing witnesses to assess the scope and volume of documents to collect.
  • Evaluating discovery requests and objections to those requests.
  • Working with the case team to determine the proper and proportional scope of discovery.
  • Managing the collection, review and production of documents. 
  • Keep the case team abreast of progress during discovery operations, report on work that has been accomplished, work remaining and estimated costs and timetables for completion. 
  • Help determine, document and execute project planning, scheduling and technical requirements. 
  • Work with the case team, the client, Litigation Support, document review services and vendors, to define the project’s budgets, goals and objectives and develop a plan for achieving these tasks. 
  • Must understand the substantive aspects of the litigation and have practical experience managing large e-discovery projects. 
  • Must also have substantial experience with Relativity and know how to work in the tool, perform searches, etc. 
  • Take ownership for this process, shepherding the project through the planning, collection, processing, review and production, including the ultimate use of productions in depositions, motions practice and trial. 
  • Assist the case team in developing the facts of the case, interviewing witnesses and transferring this information to the document review team. 
  • Will be flexible and able to adapt to the unexpected, navigate difficult deadlines and manage the many internal and external participants in the process. 
  • Experience with Relativity and other review platforms expected.
  • Significant experience managing e-discovery projects a plus.  


NOTICE TO SEARCH FIRMS: Firms that wish to present candidates to McGuireWoods LLP must have an active agreement in place.  All search firm candidates should be submitted via the Search Firm Portal.  All other unsolicited submissions by search firms will be deemed not accepted.  For questions or access to the portal, please contact the appropriate Attorney Recruiting Manager.

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