Domain Expert - Legal(NetDocuments)

Pay: $70 – $100/hour
Commitment: Hourly, ~40 h/week
Field: Law

To qualify you must use NetDocuments regularly - weekly or more - as a working part of your job, with 2+ years of experience in a law firm or legal department.

NetDocuments knowledge we require

Core (required of all candidates)

• Knows how matter-centric filing works: cabinets, workspaces, folders, and profile metadata (client, matter, document type, author), and how misprofiled documents get lost
• Knows how versioning works: official vs. draft versions, check-in and check-out, and which version controls
• Knows how ethical walls and access controls work, and when moving or sharing a document breaches one
• Knows how to file email and attachments to the right matter (ndMail or equivalent) and find them again
• Knows how retention, legal holds, and records disposition apply, and when a document must not be deleted or moved

Specialized depth (strong working knowledge in at least 2–3 of the following)

• Litigation support: productions, privilege review, Bates numbering and redaction
• Records management and matter closing or archiving
• Conflicts and new-matter intake
• Knowledge management, templates, and precedent libraries
• NetDocuments administration: security, cabinet configuration, PatternBuilder and automation
• Transactional practice: closing sets, deal rooms, document comparison

What you'll do

• Confirm a document is filed, profiled, versioned, and secured correctly for the matter, not just that it exists somewhere
• Catch documents filed to the wrong matter, the wrong official version, broken ethical walls, and changes to documents the task did not ask to touch
• Judge completeness: were all related documents and emails handled, or only the first one found
• Distinguish "the system allowed it" from "a records manager or partner would approve it"
• Verify that a request that should be refused (deleting a document under legal hold, sharing across an ethical wall) is refused rather than forced through

Requirements

• Frequent NetDocuments use - weekly or more - in your current or recent role
• 2+ years as a paralegal, legal assistant, records manager, litigation support specialist, DMS administrator, or practicing attorney
• Can spot a misfiled document, a wrong official version, or a confidentiality breach on sight
• Paralegal certificate, J.D., or equivalent law firm experience; iManage or other DMS experience is a plus
• Strong working knowledge in at least 2–3 specialized areas above
• Prior data annotation, labeling, or AI evaluation experience is a plus