eDiscovery and Outside Counsel Manager

September 4

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

Although this job is listed in Colorado, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

+13 more states

🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🌺 Hawaii – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🎰 Nevada – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote ⚓ Rhode Island – Remote 🍁 Vermont – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $105.9k - $169.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🧑‍⚖️ General Counsel

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Zillow

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Real Estate • eCommerce • B2C

Zillow is a leading real estate and property rental marketplace that provides comprehensive information on homes, apartments, and properties for sale or rent. It offers users tools to search for properties, calculate mortgage rates, and connect with real estate agents. The platform also features innovative algorithms that provide Zestimates, which are estimated market values of homes. Zillow is a go-to resource for individuals looking to buy, sell, or rent properties, as well as for agents and brokers who want to reach a wider audience.

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2006

🏠 Real Estate

🛍️ eCommerce

👥 B2C

💰 $4.1M Post-IPO Equity on 2012-12

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary point of contact for law firm relationship management and partner with Legal and Compliance stakeholders to interview and select outside counsel • Establish budgets, negotiate rates, and optimize law firm use of legal technology tools, including AI, to drive efficiency and cost saving • Regularly review preferred firm panel based on performance, diversity, expertise, and cost; monitor outside counsel performance and conduct periodic evaluations • Partner with legal operations to set strategy, establish guidelines around use of external counsel, analyze legal spend, and enforce billing policies and matter management protocols • Own end-to-end e-discovery lifecycle from legal hold through collection, processing, review and production; oversee legal hold platforms and data preservation • Develop and implement e-discovery policies, workflows and best practices; provide guidance on data minimization, defensibility, and early case assessment • Develop and lead internal training on legal holds, data preservation obligations, and best practices for cross-functional teams • Act as thought leader on e-discovery trends, compliance requirements, and litigation technology; recommend litigation and subpoena-related technology tools and vendors • Primary point of contact for intake, tracking and management of third-party subpoenas; review and analyze subpoenas and communicate with requesting counsel or government agencies • Work with internal business units to collect, preserve, review and produce responsive documents; draft subpoena responses and generate reports and metrics

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in legal or litigation operations, managing e-discovery, third-party subpoena responses, and overseeing outside counsel management in-house or at law firm • Deep experience in outside counsel management, including pricing models and law firm pricing and billing practices, budgeting, and negotiation and evaluation of rates, including alternative fee arrangements • Extensive experience in legal data preservation practices, including managing legal holds and document collections and productions • Experience managing and overseeing all phases of responses to third-party subpoenas • In-depth experience with legal tech platforms (Logikcull or equivalent), subpoena management tools, and dashboard/reporting tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Excel, Smartsheet) • Strong financial acumen, experience with fiscal and budget management • Familiarity with Brightflag or other comparable legal e-billing systems and technological tools • Strong project management skills; highly organized, accountable, and responsive • Excellent communication skills and ability to distill complexity for executive audiences • Preferred: experience supporting legal, regulatory, or federal agency investigations at a technology company or highly regulated environment • U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions

🏖️ Benefits

• comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages • parental leave • family benefits • retirement contributions • paid time off • eligible for equity awards based on experience, performance and location • Cloud HQ flexible work arrangements (flexible work) • world-class benefits