The project manager plans and executes the discovery workflow, coordinates vendors, manages review teams and budgets, tracks volumes and costs, and documents the process for defensibility.
The role may sit at a firm, vendor, or corporate legal department.
Alternative Names:
EDPM, Discovery Project Manager
Why it Matters?
Process documentation is the function that matters when methodology is challenged, since a project manager who recorded search terms, validation steps, and decisions produces the record supporting defensibility. Without that record the firm must reconstruct the process from memory. The project manager frequently becomes the witness on methodology disputes, which makes their documentation practices consequential.
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Which function matters most?
Who testifies on methodology disputes?
