GTDocs Senior Manager + Lawyer

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This is a senior legal leadership role for a practising or recently practising lawyer who wants to apply legal judgement at scale: leading complex document and evidence workflows, supervising lawyers and managers, and shaping how a top-tier firm uses technology, analytics and market-leading Generative AI tools in live matters. You will be a senior legal voice in how G+T designs, prices and delivers document- and information-intensive legal work across disputes, investigations, regulatory matters and transactions. As the Melbourne GTDocs Senior Manager + Lawyer, you will report to the Head of GTDocs, lead and develop the Melbourne GTDocs team, work closely with the Sydney Senior Manager + Lawyer and Legal Informatics. About GTDocs GTDocs is an award-winning specialist team within Gilbert + Tobin dedicated to delivering document review, discovery, evidence review and related projects that are agile, cost effective, technology-enabled and consistently high quality. GTDocs brings together legal judgement, project management, review methodology, eDiscovery, analytics, technology-assisted review, market-leading Generative AI tools and flexible resourcing. We work closely with partners, legal teams, clients, Legal Informatics, Legal Project Management and external provider teams to deliver defensible and commercially sensible outcomes on complex matters. The team's work is central to G+T's strategic response to the changing legal services market. GTDocs helps convert matter delivery experience into better playbooks, quality assurance frameworks, pricing approaches, reporting models and repeatable GenAI-enabled evidence workflows. You will be accountable for senior leadership of the Melbourne GTDocs team and for the effective delivery of complex document- and evidence-intensive legal work nationally. The role combines legal supervision, people leadership, client and partner engagement, commercial judgement, review design and continuous improvement. More broadly, you will: Lead, coach and develop the Melbourne GTDocs team. Bring practising legal judgement to the design and supervision of review strategy, relevance, privilege, confidentiality, redaction, production, issue coding, evidence preparation and escalation workflows. Scope, price, resource and manage complex reviews across disputes, class actions, regulatory investigations, competition and consumer matters, internal investigations, cyber incident responses, due diligence and transaction support. Work directly with partners, senior lawyers and clients to translate legal issues into practical review protocols, assumptions, dashboards, quality controls, reporting and decision points. Oversee first-level review, second-level review, quality assurance, privilege review, confidentiality review, redactions, production checks, consistency analysis and risk escalation. Use review data to give clear, strategic insight on progress, review rates, responsiveness, privilege, quality outcomes, budget, completion risk and options for narrowing or accelerating review. Partner with Legal Informatics and Legal Project Management to apply the right mix of people, process and technology, including Relativity and other eDiscovery platforms, analytics, technology-assisted review, Generative AI tools like Harvey and approved legal AI workflows. Use, provide guidance on the use of, and embed market-leading Generative AI tools in review and evidence workflows, including prompt and workflow design, playbooks, guardrails, human-in-the-loop review, evaluation and escalation protocols. Manage onshore and offshore resourcing, including allocation, supervision and quality control of internal team members, contractors and provider resources. Create and maintain review playbooks, protocols, templates, training, matter debriefs and reusable process assets so that lessons from live matters improve future delivery. Act as a senior Melbourne point of contact for GTDocs and help strengthen relationships with practice groups, clients and specialist teams. About you This role is designed for a senior lawyer who wants to stay close to substantive legal work

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About Gilbert + Tobin Gilbert + Tobin is built on enduring values of excellence, trust, respect, integrity and good corporate citizenship. We are a leading firm with over 500 lawyers, trusted by our clients to navigate today's increasingly complex world. We are purpose-built for our clients' most complex work - across transactions, disputes and regulation. Our partners are leaders in their fields, delivering the highest quality of legal advice and providing an exceptional edge for our clients. They also provide our lawyers the opportunity to work with and learn from them. We are innovators in the use of technology, redefining value and service in the legal industry. Our open, merit-based culture attracts and inspires the best legal talent. We remain as determined as ever to be the best it's possible to be.

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