Butler Snow is seeking an E-Discovery attorney to join the team.
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
What you will do: - Advise clients and legal teams on e-discovery obligations, including preservation and production of ESI.
- Develop and implement defensible legal holds, collection strategies, and discovery protocols.
- Manage large-scale document review and production projects from discovery through trial.
- Analyze electronically stored information, including emails, documents, databases, chat messages, and other digital records.
- Work with litigation-support teams, vendors, forensic specialists, and outside counsel.
- Draft and negotiate ESI protocols, discovery agreements, search terms, and protective orders.
- Address discovery disputes, including challenges involving scope, relevance, proportionality, privilege, and data preservation.
- Advise on privilege review, confidentiality, data privacy, and cross-border discovery issues.
- Oversee document-review teams and quality-control processes.
- Stay current with developments in FRCP, e-discovery case law, AI-assisted review, TAR, and emerging discovery technologies.
- Represent clients in discovery conferences, hearings, and related litigation matters as needed.
- Discovery Strategy: Develop discovery plans, search terms, collection protocols, and review workflows.
- Technology Management: Work with litigation-support teams and e-discovery vendors using platforms such as Relativity, Everlaw, DISCO, or similar systems.
- Discovery Disputes: Handle disputes concerning preservation, search methodology, scope, proportionality, privilege, and adequacy of productions.
- Vendor Management: Coordinate with forensic specialists, outside vendors, contract attorneys, and litigation-support professionals.
- Project Management: Track discovery deadlines, budgets, review progress, production schedules, and case milestones.
Qualifications and Skills required: - J.D. from an accredited law school.
- Active bar admission in the relevant jurisdiction.
- 3 years of experience with litigation, investigations, or e-discovery.
- Strong understanding of FRCP Rules 26, 34, 37, and 45 and applicable state discovery rules.
- Familiarity with platforms such as Relativity, Everlaw, DISCO, Logikcull, or similar e-discovery tools.
- Strong legal research, writing, negotiation, project-management, and analytical skills.
- Ability to manage complex, high-volume matters and communicate technical concepts to attorneys and clients.
Why Butler Snow: - Opportunity to work with highly intelligent and accomplished attorneys working on complex matters with sophisticated clients
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision as well as Life, Long Term Disability and Short-Term Disability;
- Generous Paternity/Maternity Leave*;
- Paid Parking;
- Cell Phone Reimbursement;
- 401(k) & Profit Sharing*;
- 10 Paid Holidays plus 2 floating holidays; and
- Learning and Development opportunities including CLE.
*Once eligibility requirements are satisfied
