IP Litigation Support Project Manager
Role Overview
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.
The ideal candidate combines strong legal operations rigor with the ability to manage highly technical, data-intensive litigation environments.
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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
- Success Measures
- Matters are launched with clear plans, governance structures, and financial discipline
- Cross-functional teams remain aligned and informed throughout execution
- Discovery, expert, and trial activities are timely, organized, and well-managed
- Leadership receives accurate, concise reporting on status, risks, and spend
- Outside counsel and vendors meet defined performance and cost expectations
- The Compensation range for this role is $40-$50 USD hourly and may be eligible for an annual bonus.
- Your specific salary will be determined based on several factors:
- Location-based market rate for the role
- Your abilities in relation to the job specification
- Performance during screening and interview
- Pay parity with the wider team in the considered location
- Further details about the package will be provided during the initial screening call with the Talent Acquisition Team.
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- Epiq Leadership Compass
- Fosters Relationships & Collaboration
- Builds trust and alignment through open communication, shared goals, and strong partnerships to drive collective success.
- Build trust-based partnerships
- Nurture long-term relationships
- Remove collaboration barriers
- Celebrate cross-team success
- Engages & Influences
- Inspires action and alignment through clear communication, purposeful influence, and a compelling vision.
- Use storytelling to build buy-in
- Align communication with organizational goals
- Guild alignment through strong engagement
- Maximizes Performance
- Sets and reinforces performance standards that drive results, ensure accountability, and align with Epiq’s goals.
- Use data to identify improvement opportunities
- Make informed decisions
- Align team goals with boarder strategy
- Empower teams to manage their own goals
- Translate vision into clear priorities
- Prepare for disruptions with strong change management
- Achieves Operational Success
- Drives continuous improvement and operational excellence through smart processes, data insights, and quality execution.
- Improve workflows for team efficiency
- Use clear documentation and expectations
- Resolve issues quickly using data and feedback
- It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. In addition Epiq will take affirmative action for minorities, women, covered veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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