Description
At Epiq, you'll join a values-driven community where integrity guides decisions, relentless service sets the bar, and they thrive on big challenges together. You'll do the most meaningful work of your career and see your impact at scale.
The Project Manager serves as the operational lead across the full lifecycle of complex pharmaceutical IP litigation matters, including Hatch-Waxman ANDA and BPCIA biosimilar disputes. This role drives disciplined planning, execution, and governance while coordinating cross-functional stakeholders across legal, scientific, regulatory, and business functions.
Key Responsibilities
- Matter Planning & Execution: Lead matter intake and develop clear scope, assumptions, risk assessments, budgets, and milestone-driven plans. Proactively identify and resolve issues, ensuring continuity and disciplined execution throughout the matter lifecycle. Maintain integrated timelines, dashboards, and status reporting across active matters.
- Litigation & Workstream Management: Coordinate key litigation activities, including discovery, expert engagement, claim construction, and trial preparation. Support document collection, docket monitoring, and preparation of key filings and notices. Ensure alignment and execution across legal, expert, and technical workstreams.
- Governance & Cross-Functional Coordination: Establish clear roles, reporting cadences, and escalation pathways across stakeholders. Align legal, scientific, regulatory, and business teams through structured communication and planning. Drive accountability and transparency from intake through resolution.
- Scientific & Technical Support: Partner with R&D, regulatory, and commercial teams to support IP strategy and litigation readiness. Organize and manage complex scientific and technical materials, including clinical and lab data. Support Freedom to Operate (FTO) assessments and early-stage risk evaluations.
- Information & Data Management: Oversee document and data workflows, including collection, review, production, and tracking. Coordinate vendor activities across data-intensive and technically complex datasets. Ensure defensible, organized processes aligned with litigation requirements.
- Budget & Vendor Oversight: Support phase-based forecasting, accruals, and spend tracking. Manage outside counsel and vendor performance, invoicing, and compliance with agreed terms. Provide financial transparency and reporting across all resources.
- Process, Technology & Reporting: Support implementation and effective use of litigation tools and processes. Recommend best practices across project management, data management, and workflow optimization. Deliver concise, executive-ready reporting on status, risks, milestones, and financials.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience managing complex litigation or legal operations programs with multiple workstreams
- Strong project management capabilities, including scheduling, risk tracking, and executive reporting
- Experience coordinating discovery, vendors, and data-intensive workflows in a defensible manner
- Ability to operate effectively across legal, scientific, regulatory, and business stakeholders
- Demonstrated strength in budget management, vendor governance, and financial oversight
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complexity into clear, actionable insights
- Highly organized, self-directed, and able to manage competing priorities in fast-paced environments
Preferred Experience
- Pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences litigation experience
- Familiarity with Hatch-Waxman ANDA or BPCIA biosimilar disputes
- Experience supporting expert-driven, technical litigation matters
- Exposure to e-billing, legal spend management, and outside counsel oversight
- 5–10 years in legal operations or litigation project management
- Background in law firm or in-house litigation support environments
The Compensation range for this role is $40-$50 USD hourly and may be eligible for an annual bonus.