Our client is a professional services firm that provides transaction, litigation, regulatory compliance, and general counsel legal services to corporations, public entities, nonprofits, and public-private partnerships throughout California. We are recruiting for a Construction Litigation Paralegal. This is a direct hire role that requires three days onsite in downtown Oakland.
We are seeking a Litigation Paralegal who will be responsible for providing Firm attorneys with the full range of litigation paralegal support. You will work closely with attorneys and team members to proactively oversee case management from inception through and after trial or settlement. Draft, review, and revise legal documents.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITES:
- Work closely with attorneys and team members to oversee case management from inception through trial/settlement and post-trial/post-settlement
- Draft, review, and revise legal documents; Cite-check briefs
- Manage hard copy and electronic case documents, including email and electronic files; update discovery logs and indices; and prepare hard copy documents
- Assist with document review and develop expertise in use of e-discovery technology and document review tools, including gaining the ability to prepare sets of documents to be produced and perform key-term searches over that data and ability to train other team members
- Assist with deposition and hearing preparation, including identifying and gathering exhibit documents and creating witness outlines
- Perform litigation support duties such as Bates stamping exhibits, preparing spreadsheets and flash drives, hyperlinking PDFs, reviewing litigation dockets, and ensuring that dates are calendared correctly
- Draft and arrange for service of subpoenas
- Monitor pending decisions and conduct legal research
- Complete accurate and detailed billable-time entries and timecards
- Assist with document review and coordinate with Litigation Support Group for back-end database management using Concordance
- Maintain composure and work efficiently and accurately during stressful, high-energy circumstances involving frequently changing priorities
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Construction industry experience and/or work in a construction-related legal practice
- Strong technical eDiscovery skills and understanding of litigation support
- Prior experience using Trial Director
- Trial experience; and
- Experience with iPro, Relativity, Disco and other data management systems.
