Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Risk

• Support the firm's Matter Mobility Program, assisting with the onboarding of lateral partners' client files, coordinating with partners' previous firms, maintaining records of client authorizations for file transfers, and handling the export of files for departing partners.
• Assist with the closing set process by supporting stewardship of “closing” documents in the Firm’s document management system, ensuring proper document formatting and classification, creating and formatting Word closing tables for internal purposes, and utilizing Closing Folders for external closing set preparation when requested.
• Provide day-to-day support to the firm's Information Governance Program, including file intakes, releases, destructions, and data access procedures.
• Collaborate with IT, Knowledge & Innovation, and legal professionals to create, organize, and document data collection, sharing, protection, and storage processes.
• Process and manage hardcopy legal documents by identifying different document types, entering information into the Firm’s Information Governance platform, creating paralegal indices, reviewing materials prior to updating databases, preparing files for off-site archiving, and submitting service requests via the offsite storage vendor portal.
• Identify locations of unstructured data on the network and organize/migrate data to official repositories or prepare for disposition as appropriate.
• Periodic travel to the West Coast offices

Regional Information Governance Supervisor