Legal Hold Specialist
About The Position
Join us as a Legal Hold Specialist and play a critical role in managing the end-to-end lifecycle of legal holds within a global financial services environment. This position partners closely with Legal, business technology teams, and Records Management teams to ensure proper identification, preservation, and defensible handling of data. You will act as a subject matter expert in Discovery and disposal holds, advising stakeholders on best practices and regulatory requirements. The role also involves driving process improvements, supporting lawyers, and overseeing legal hold solutions. This is an excellent opportunity for a detail oriented professional to influence enterprise-wide data governance and legal risk mitigation strategies.
Requirements
- Experience in eDiscovery, legal hold, or records management, ideally within a financial services or regulated environment
- Proven understanding of legal hold lifecycle, including identification, preservation, and release processes
- Ability to partner with attorneys, compliance, and records management teams to scope and manage legal holds
- Knowledge of regulatory frameworks related to data retention and disposal obligations
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with or supporting litigation and legal hold platforms
- Stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence cross functional teams
- Demonstrated ability to analyze processes and recommend improvements for efficiency and risk reduction
- Problem solving, organizational, and multitasking skills in a fast-paced environment
Responsibilities
- Partnership with internal stakeholders, outside counsel and eDiscovery suppliers throughout lifecycle of a matter to oversee matter activities, ensuring best practices are implemented with an eye to advocacy, reduction of risk and management of costs.
- Management of eDiscovery matters, including identification and preservation of relevant data sources, retrieval, search, processing of data, analysis/ review of data for production of data in response to legal or regulatory requests as well as internal investigations and proactive compliance matters.
- Management of Disposal Hold and Defensible Disposal processes as well as eDiscovery activities in compliance with records and data management standards, including those related to data protection and data retention.
- Developing and delivering training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to eDiscovery and disposal hold processes.
- Relationship management with eDiscovery vendors, including selecting and retaining vendors, negotiating contracts, and ensuring that vendors provide high-quality eDiscovery services. This includes security and privacy requirements.
- Development and implementation of eDiscovery and disposal hold policies and procedures.
- Collaboration on strategic initiatives and projects to reduce cost and risk associated with the use of electronic data.
- Collaboration and/or consultiion with internal and/or external parties to leverage technology to increase efficiency during the retrieval process for new and existing e-comms data sources.
- Management and implementation of retrieval according to standard operational procedures for centralised data sources as well as preservation processes.
Benefits
- Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
- This position is eligible for an incentive award.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
