E-Discovery Attorney (Huntsville, AL)

Butler Snow is seeking an E-Discovery attorney to join the team.

Location: Huntsville, Alabama

What you will do:

• Advise clients and legal teams on e-discovery obligations, including preservation and production of ESI.
• Develop and implement defensible legal holds, collection strategies, and discovery protocols.
• Manage large-scale document review and production projects from discovery through trial.
• Analyze electronically stored information, including emails, documents, databases, chat messages, and other digital records.
• Work with litigation-support teams, vendors, forensic specialists, and outside counsel.
• Draft and negotiate ESI protocols, discovery agreements, search terms, and protective orders.
• Address discovery disputes, including challenges involving scope, relevance, proportionality, privilege, and data preservation.
• Advise on privilege review, confidentiality, data privacy, and cross-border discovery issues.
• Oversee document-review teams and quality-control processes.
• Stay current with developments in FRCP, e-discovery case law, AI-assisted review, TAR, and emerging discovery technologies.
• Represent clients in discovery conferences, hearings, and related litigation matters as needed.
• Discovery Strategy: Develop discovery plans, search terms, collection protocols, and review workflows.
• Technology Management: Work with litigation-support teams and e-discovery vendors using platforms such as Relativity, Everlaw, DISCO, or similar systems.
• Discovery Disputes: Handle disputes concerning preservation, search methodology, scope, proportionality, privilege, and adequacy of productions.
• Vendor Management: Coordinate with forensic specialists, outside vendors, contract attorneys, and litigation-support professionals.
• Project Management: Track discovery deadlines, budgets, review progress, production schedules, and case milestones.

Qualifications and Skills required:

• J.D. from an accredited law school.
• Active bar admission in the relevant jurisdiction.
• 3 years of experience with litigation, investigations, or e-discovery.
• Strong understanding of FRCP Rules 26, 34, 37, and 45 and applicable state discovery rules.
• Familiarity with platforms such as Relativity, Everlaw, DISCO, Logikcull, or similar e-discovery tools.
• Strong legal research, writing, negotiation, project-management, and analytical skills.
• Ability to manage complex, high-volume matters and communicate technical concepts to attorneys and clients.

Why Butler Snow:

• Opportunity to work with highly intelligent and accomplished attorneys working on complex matters with sophisticated clients
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision as well as Life, Long Term Disability and Short-Term Disability;
• Generous Paternity/Maternity Leave*;
• Paid Parking;
• Cell Phone Reimbursement;
• 401(k) & Profit Sharing*;
• 10 Paid Holidays plus 2 floating holidays; and
• Learning and Development opportunities including CLE.

*Once eligibility requirements are satisfied