Director - Litigation Support

Lathrop GPM, one of the nation's leading law firms, has an immediate opening for a Director - Litigation Support with a preference for our Minneapolis, MN or Kansas City, MO locations. This position is responsible for the operation of the firm’s Litigation Support and Docketing departments, including management and negotiations with outside vendors/technology companies that provide services or products for the firm’s docketing and litigation teams.

The position also requires a minimum of 500 hours of billable project work on document review, production, collection, review and/or creation of eDiscovery protocols, other case work on eDiscovery platforms and completing work as assigned by case teams.

Lathrop GPM is a full‑service, Am Law 200 law firm with offices in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Overland Park, St. Cloud, St. Louis, San Jose, Redwood Shores and Washington, D.C. Our clients are at the heart of everything we do. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, and a professional, challenging, yet comfortable hybrid working environment.

• Daily leadership and direction of the litigation support and firm docketing teams, creation of policies & procedures for delivery of excellent services to case teams and clients; responsibility for use and administration of technologies including Relativity, Everlaw, Jura Law, Case Natebook, Case Map, OnCue, Trial Pad, Collaborate, Box, and Share File; evaluation of new technologies including AI advancements and make recommendations to the Chief Legal Operations Officer related to same;
  
  and assistance with other tasks.
• Minimum of 500 hours of billable work, including completing document review, production, collection, and other work on eDiscovery platforms; working with case teams on discovery motions, trial work, or other needs; advising on eDiscovery protocols, and/or motion work related to discovery disputes.
• Managing the interactions with existing vendors providing managed services to firm for discovery services and other vendors that provide one‑off services like data collections for specific case teams.
• Creation of monthly billing reports & backup invoices so that clients are appropriately invoiced & charges collected for services rendered; meeting with billing partners to address questions regarding how charges are calculated & solutions to manage client spend.
• Collaboration with attorneys on drafting discovery orders, complying with discovery orders, responding to requests for production, requests for costs/fees, and other litigation related topics.
• Coordinating internal legal holds and assisting firm’s General Counsel (and others) with reviews of firm documents for subpoenas, litigation, and investigations.
• Administration and/or oversight of the firmwide ECF/Pacer accounts.
• Maintaining inventory of equipment and supplies needed for trials and coordinating set‑up and delivery of equipment and the deployment of services for trial teams in coordination with Paralegals, Attorneys, and Office Services; maintaining a list of graphics vendors in various geographies to support trial teams as needed with development of trial demonstratives.
• Assisting firm’s Information Governance & Management team with data transfers in and out of the firm specifically as it relates to litigation matters but also sometimes assisting with searches of firm email/data to identify items to be pulled before transfer.
• Managing the department’s firm budget, handling payment of expenses, and tracking client payments to yearly budget expectations.
• Meeting with all incoming timekeepers to provide orientation on services provided by Litigation Support and Firm Docketing; presenting at practice group meetings on timely or requested topics; and collaborating with firm professional development team to provide relevant educational opportunities to firm’s attorneys.
• Communicating and coordinating with clients and clients’ representatives at the request of case teams; developing discovery budgets and project plans; training of case teams in the use of document review platforms; interfacing between firm’s TSD and case teams;…