Senior Managing Attorney

About this role

At Epiq , your work contributes to complex, global legal outcomes. You’ll join a values‑driven community where integrity guides decisions, relentless service sets the bar, and we thrive on big challenges together. We invest in your growth with enterprise‑wide learning and mobility. We celebrate who you are, and we respect life beyond work with flexibility that’s recognized externally. Enabled by modern platforms and AI, you’ll do the most meaningful work of your career and see your impact at scale.

Job Description: Job Title:                     Senior Managing Attorney Location:                      Remote, United States Business Unit:             Legal Solutions Reports to:                   TBD                                                                 Position Summary: The Senior Managing Attorney is a senior client-facing legal and operational leader responsible for delivering high-quality services across the litigation lifecycle for corporations and law firms. This role is multifaceted and involves project management, substantive legal analysis, team leadership. The Senior Managing Attorney serves as a trusted advisor to clients and case teams, a primary escalation point for Epiq associates and lead attorneys, and a key partner to program leadership in delivering consistent, defensible, efficient, and technology-enabled legal work product.

The Senior Managing Attorney must have a strong understanding of the litigation lifecycle, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, and the technologies used to increase efficiency, reduce costs, identify key facts and case themes, and deliver exceptional service. The role requires the ability to manage multiple active matters, support advisory engagements such as deposition preparation and fact development, consult on workflow design and technology, including agentic AI solutions, and oversee attorney performance and work product,. The Senior Managing Attorney will represent the mission, vision, and values of Epiq and will demonstrate leadership, technical fluency, sound judgment, empathy, and professionalism across all spheres of the business, including as it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Primary Responsibilities: • Serve as a senior point of contact and trusted advisor for clients, counsel, program leadership, and the program attorney teams across active matters, advisory engagements, and program initiatives. • Lead, scope, and execute program engagements for litigation, investigations, discovery-related workflows including deposition preparation, fact development, witness preparation support, second level review, and other legal analysis workstreams. • Serve as a primary escalation point for program attorneys including Lead Attorneys, Associate Managing Attorneys, and Managing Attorneys, and substantive legal issues, workflow questions, technology needs, performance concerns, and client communications. • Consult with clients and case teams on the design, development, and implementation of efficient and defensible workflows, including review protocols, escalation procedures, training guidelines, quality control plans, and reporting structures. • Manage client expectations regarding deliverables, timelines, budgets, staffing, productivity, quality, and changes in scope, and communicate project status and performance to stakeholders on a regular basis. • Oversee the execution of discovery-related workflows including deposition preparation and advisory workflows, including identification of key documents, development of witness-specific materials, fact chronologies, issue outlines, key document summaries, timelines, and written memoranda. • Implement and supervise workflows within document review and litigation technology platforms, including batch sets, fields, choices, layouts, views, rules, security, persistent highlighting, search term reports, analytics, and other matter-specific configurations. • Leverage structured analytics, conceptual analytics, artificial intelligence, technology-assisted review, email threading, near-duplicate identification, clustering, advanced search techniques, statistical sampling, and custom scripts to improve accuracy, consistency, productivity, and defensibility. • Oversee quality control and quality assurance processes, including calibration exercises, sampling, issue escalation, query logs, reviewer feedback loops, and validation of production or disclosure sets. • Monitor and report on matter progress, attorney productivity, accuracy, budget performance, training completion, and individual or team performance, including daily or weekly reporting as appropriate. • Lead, mentor, motivate, and provide substantive feedback to program attorney teams, including Lead Attorneys and other attorney team members, to promote consistent performance, professional development, and high-quality work product. • Oversee or support onboarding, offboarding, attorney readiness, placement candidate assignments, requisition processes, assignment end forms, and related coordination with recruiting, client services, continuous improvement, and third-party providers. • Develop, maintain, and improve the Attorney Bench onboarding, Lead Attorney training, team training, assessment processes, remediation resources, and scalable program infrastructure that promotes consistency across matters. • Collaborate with program leadership, Continuous Improvement, Client Services, operations, recruiting, and technology teams to identify recurring needs, create training resources, standardize best practices, and convert matter-level lessons learned into repeatable program improvements. • Assist with time entry oversight, invoice review, project wrap-up, performance documentation, and other administrative or operational needs that support accurate billing, budget management, and matter closeout.

Qualifications: • Juris Doctorate (JD) degree and valid, active state bar association admission in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

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