About Gowling Wlg

At Gowling WLG, our commitment to excellence begins with our people. As an international law firm with offices in Canada, the U.K., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, we’re proud to recruit and retain top talent who bring energy, insight, and a singular focus on delivering exceptional experiences – for our clients and each other.

About Gowling Wlg

At Gowling WLG, our commitment to excellence begins with our people. As an international law firm with offices in Canada, the U.K., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, we’re proud to recruit and retain top talent who bring energy, insight, and a singular focus on delivering exceptional experiences – for our clients and each other.

We’re intentional about building a workplace that’s both high-performing and supportive, ensuring that everyone is empowered to do your best work and reach their full potential. Our culture is grounded in our shared values: Raise the Bar, Embrace Differences, and Thrive Together. These values shape how we collaborate, lead, and succeed – across teams, time zones, and career paths.

Whether you’re pursuing a role in law or business services, explore what’s possible and make your mark with Gowling WLG.

PROFILE

The Litigation Support Specialist provides eDiscovery, case management, project management, and litigation support to the firm’s clients and professionals across Canada. This role manages eDiscovery work through all phases of the EDRM for litigation, investigations, and regulatory and compliance matters. The Litigation Support Specialist will act as a liaison between lawyers, paraprofessionals, clients, IT, review teams, and outside vendors ensuring electronically stored information (ESI) is handled in a defensible,



efficient, and cost-effective manner. Provides strategic advice on eDiscovery best practices, drawing on technical skill, case management, and project management expertise.

This position can be based in any of our Canadian offices and requires hybrid attendance in the office.

Responsibilities

Project Management and Data Governance

- Coordinate the full EDRM process: identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, analysis, and production of ESI.
- Develop and manage project plans, budgets, metrics, timelines, and workflows so work is delivered on time and on budget.
- Monitor progress, identify risks, and elevate issues to case teams and other stakeholders.
- Provide regular reports on status, risks, and key milestones.
- Defensibly advise on, oversee, and execute data retention and disposition workflows.

Data Identification, Collection, and Processing

- Work with legal teams and clients to identify, preserve, and collect relevant ESI including engagement and oversight of external forensic vendors.
- Advise on defensible collection methods and attend collection calls and meetings when required.
- Ingest, process, import, export, client data, troubleshoot and resolve processing and ingestion errors.

Database Administration and Technical Support

- Administer Relativity and other review platforms,



including views, layouts, fields, imaging, and OCR sets, leveraging structured analytics, technology assisted review, and Relativity aiR suite of tools.
- Set up user access, group security, and workspace permissions.
- Run search queries and work with case teams on culling, search, and review strategies.
- Troubleshoot technical problems with eDiscovery tools and processes.
- Create and maintain documentation of workflows, processes, and protocols for each matter.

Document Review, Quality Control, and Production

- Support document review and analysis so results are accurate, consistent, and defensible.
- Prepare productions that meet agreed upon production exchange specifications.
- Run quality control checks throughout each phase of a project to ensure productions are accurate, complete, and defensible.
- Work with internal and external review teams to meet document review milestones and deadlines.
- Produce reports and analytics to assist legal teams with review and production strategy.

Training and Continuous Improvement

- Train eDiscovery team members, lawyers, law clerks, paraprofessionals, and business services teams on eDiscovery tools, workflows, processes, and best practices as required.
- Assist with process improvement by updating templates, standards, guidelines, specifications, and training materials.
- Stay abreast of recent eDiscovery and AI technologies, tools, trends, processes, and workflows impacting eDiscovery and litigation support.

Availability

- Hybrid schedule with flexible hours, including on-site work and weeknight or weekend overtime for urgent deadlines.

Qualifications

Education an

📌 Litigation Support Specialist (Calgary)
🏢 Gowling WLG
📍 Calgary