Paralegal - eDiscovery & Legal Technology

Kiewit • Lenexa, KS

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Kiewit is seeking an experienced Paralegal - eDiscovery & Legal Technology to join its Legal Department and support complex litigation, claims, investigations, and other legal matters involving electronically stored information (ESI). This individual will combine traditional litigation paralegal responsibilities with hands-on eDiscovery and legal technology expertise, partnering closely with Kiewit attorneys, other paralegals, Kiewit Technology Group (KTG), outside counsel, and vendors. This role will support matters throughout the discovery lifecycle, including data ingestion and validation, early case assessment, search and analytics, document review, quality control, and production. The position will serve as a key administrator and advanced user of Kiewit's eDiscovery platform, currently Everlaw, and will help establish consistent, efficient, and defensible discovery practices. The ideal candidate brings a strong understanding of litigation and discovery, enjoys working with data and technology, and is interested in helping Kiewit expand its use of analytics, artificial intelligence, and emerging legal technologies. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role requiring a strong understanding of litigation and eDiscovery processes combined with practical experience using modern eDiscovery technology. This role will support significant, high-stakes litigation and claims associated with some of Kiewit's largest and most complex projects. The Legal Department is also actively expanding its use of eDiscovery technology, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and internally developed tools. The person joining the team will have an opportunity not only to support current projects, but also to help shape how Kiewit approaches discovery and legal technology going forward - developing processes, establishing protocols, partnering with technology teams, and helping evaluate and implement new capabilities as they emerge.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required for this position.
• Certificate or degree in Paralegal Studies, Law, Business, or a related field; bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience preferred.
• Five or more years of progressively responsible experience in litigation support, paralegal litigation work, eDiscovery, legal technology, or a closely related discipline.
• Experience working in a litigation-focused law firm, corporate legal department, eDiscovery services environment, or similar setting.
• Interest in emerging AI-powered legal technology and an aptitude for evaluating and adopting new tools and workflows.
• Hands-on experience supporting complex litigation or investigations through multiple phases of the eDiscovery lifecycle.
• Strong Practical experience with a leading eDiscovery platform such as Everlaw, Relativity/RelativityOne, DISCO, Nextpoint, or a comparable platform; direct Everlaw experience strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of eDiscovery concepts and practices, including ESI preservation and collection, metadata, document families, email threading, deduplication, search and analytics, review workflows, privilege, redaction, productions, and quality control.
• Experience administering, configuring, or serving as an advanced user of an eDiscovery platform.
• Experience working with Microsoft 365 information sources and tools such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Exchange/Outlook, and Microsoft Purview preferred.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, project-management, and organizational skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to work effectively with attorneys, paralegals, technology professionals, outside counsel, and vendors.
• Professional composure and the ability to work effectively under attorney and litigation deadlines.
• Ability to handle confidential, privileged, and sensitive information with discretion and sound judgment.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; experience with SharePoint, Adobe Acrobat, and Concur preferred.

Nice To Haves

• An active U.S. security clearance is preferred, but not required.
• Experience with technology-assisted review, predictive coding, advanced analytics, or AI-assisted eDiscovery workflows is preferred.
• Relevant professional certifications or training such as CEDS/ACEDS, RCA, Everlaw certification, or comparable eDiscovery credentials are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support complex litigation, claims, investigations, and other legal matters throughout the discovery lifecycle, including preservation, collection, ingestion, processing, early case assessment, review, analysis, production, and matter closeout.
• Respond to subpoenas and discovery requests by identifying, reviewing, gathering, preserving, and analyzing relevant electronic and physical records.
• Partner with attorneys and other paralegals to understand matter strategy and translate legal objectives into practical and defensible eDiscovery workflows.
• Administer eDiscovery matters within Everlaw or comparable platforms, including project configuration, users and permissions, coding structures, searches, analytics, review workflows, reporting, and related functionality.
• Coordinate electronic data collection from enterprise systems including Microsoft 365, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Exchange/Outlook, and other information sources.
• Partner with KTG, outside counsel, vendors, and platform support to obtain data, troubleshoot technical issues, and resolve collection or workflow challenges.
• Develop and execute search, filtering, deduplication, email threading, analytics, technology-assisted review (TAR), predictive coding, and other strategies to efficiently analyze large data sets.
• Support document review and production workflows, including privilege review, redactions, metadata, load files, quality control, exception handling, and final production preparation.
• Assist attorneys with litigation strategy and case development through research, chronologies, document analysis, employee interviews, and preparation of legal correspondence, memoranda, and presentations.
• Assist with internal investigations, cybersecurity incidents, data breaches, and other sensitive matters requiring rapid identification, organization, and analysis of information.
• Coordinate document execution and distribution and maintain organized legal matter files and pleadings.
• Use case management and legal technology systems to maintain matter information, generate reports, process invoices, and track legal expenses.
• Develop and maintain eDiscovery procedures, playbooks, templates, quality-control practices, and training materials to improve consistency and knowledge transfer.
• Maintain expertise in Everlaw and developments in eDiscovery, analytics, artificial intelligence, and other legal technologies.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve legal workflows and appropriately bring discovery capabilities in-house.
• Manage multiple concurrent matters and changing priorities in a deadline-driven legal environment.
• Regular, reliable attendance
• Work productively and meet deadlines timely
• Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment.
• Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
• Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.
• May work at various different locations and conditions may vary.

Benefits

• top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents
• voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs
• life insurance
• disability
• retirement plans with matching
• generous paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level