Fluent Arabic Staff Attorney - REMOTE.
For highly regarded global law firm client in Washington DC.
This position can be remote but must be local to the DC office and within commuting distance for occassional in office meetings.
Full benefits, paid time off, health insurance, parental leave, paid OT, yearly raise and bonus.
The Staff Attorney will work on teams involved in document review and production projects. Candidates must be currently DC barred and have strong document review experience including QC and priv experience.
Duties: Review, analyze, categorize, and, as appropriate, annotate and/or redact documents and other informational materials in document review database systems, and/or hard-copy document collections. Assist in preparation of privilege and redaction logs and other similar tasks attendant to document review and production projects. As needed draft outlines and memoranda relating to the fact discovery issues and findings. Assist with the review quality control and review metrics reporting processes as needed. Work with the Firm’s litigation support staff and/or e-discovery vendors to help resolve any operational issues with the document collections, databases and review systems in use.
Position requirements:
Fluent/Native Arabic Fluency required. At least one year of document review experience within or for an AMLAW 100 or 200 firm working on large litigation, investigation, or arbitration matters. Experience working on Arabic language doc review matter ideal.
Current good standing with the DC Bar.
Excellent organizational, interpersonal skills, and a strong service orientation; excellent oral and written communication skills.
Strong working knowledge of a discovery document review projects’ purpose and typical work-flows, and a thorough understanding of the rules and application of attorney-client and work product privilege.
Significant experience with on-line document review systems such as Relativity, Documatrix, FTI’s Ringtail, or other similar modern document review software tools.
Flexibility to work overtime as necessary.
Salary plus paid OT and benefits.
