eDiscovery Document Reviewer Employment Contract UK

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

• Review documents under the approved protocol.
• Apply relevance issue and privilege coding.
• Escalate uncertain or significant material.
• Meet security and confidentiality controls.
• Maintain quality query and productivity records.

A realistic working scenario

You review document sets in the matter-management and document-management systems, tag privilege and responsiveness, update case records, note key deadlines, prepare bundles or productions, and flag conflicts or client-money, undertaking, deadline or professional-conduct concerns to the practice or department manager for approval or escalation.

Outputs to agree

• Privilege logs and redaction instructions for productions.
• Reviewed and coded document sets with responsiveness and issue tags.
• Drafted production bundles, Bates ranges and secure transfer packages.
• Updated matter-management entries: review progress, deadlines and reviewer notes.

Records and evidence

• Matter-management entries showing review progress, reviewer ID and deadlines.
• Document-management records: coding, privilege tags, redaction notes and Bates ranges.
• Conflicts register checks and any recorded conflict results.
• Attendance notes and client communication drafts relating to document decisions.
• Escalation records and approvals from the practice or department manager.
• Client files.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Supervising Solicitor, Practice Manager, Legal Director or Head of Department. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

• You may tag documents for reviewer attention, apply privilege and responsiveness coding, and prepare draft redactions and productions. You must not approve final productions, resolve recorded conflicts, release client money, sign undertakings or close matters—such approvals rest with the practice or department manager, partners or authorised fee earners. Escalate suspected privilege breaches, client-money anomalies, undertaking requests, missed judicial deadlines or professional-conduct concerns immediately to the practice or department manager.
• Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

• Case management systems.
• Document management systems.
• Secure email.
• Legal research tools.
• Deadline or diary systems.

Workplace context

• Legal office, client meeting rooms, court or tribunal locations where required and secure administration spaces.

Contract priorities

• Protect client confidentiality, legal privilege and settlement strategy when handling documents.
• Complete conflict checks before working on a matter and record the outcome in the conflicts register.
• Maintain accurate matter-management entries for review progress, deadlines and reviewer notes.
• Escalate suspected privilege loss, client-money anomalies, undertaking requests, missed judicial deadlines or professional-conduct concerns to the practice or department manager.
• Follow secure transfer processes for productions and log Bates ranges and redactions in document-management.

Information the employer should prepare

• the matters clients and review scope
• the platform access and location restrictions
• the coding protocol and escalation rules
• the quality sampling and target measures
• the privilege conflict and project-end process