Litigation Paralegal

Kennedys, a global law firm with offices throughout the US, seeks a full-time Paralegal with 3+ years of solid insurance defense litigation experience to join our team in our New York City Office. This is a really exciting opportunity for an ambitious Paralegal to join a growing, global law firm and prepare cases for trial.


Key Responsibilities

• Prepare discovery demands and assist with pleadings and discovery responses.
• Review and summarize medical records and prepare medical chronologies for trial.
• Prepare discovery motions and assist with dispositive motions, including motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment.
• E-file pleadings, motions, and trial documents in state and federal courts.
• Conduct legal research using LexisNexis, Westlaw, and other online sources for trial.
• Review, organize, and summarize discovery materials, medical records, and other relevant documents for trial preparation, including page/line summaries.
• Prepare and maintain exhibit lists, witness lists, deposition designations, and trial subpoenas.
• Coordinate fact witnesses, corporate representatives, and expert witnesses for depositions and trial testimony.
• Manage trial exhibits, including organization, labeling, tracking, and admissibility review.
• Assist in preparing demonstrative exhibits, trial graphics, and evidentiary summaries for use in trial.
• Support attorneys during trial by maintaining exhibit logs, preparing digests of trial transcripts, tracking admitted evidence, and assisting with real-time document retrieval.
• Assist in coordinating mock trials, focus groups, mediations, and settlement conferences.
• Maintain case deadlines and ensure compliance with court scheduling orders and pretrial deadlines.
• Attend trials and provide in-courtroom support to attorneys throughout proceedings.

Our ideal candidate should have

• 3+ years of relevant experience [Insurance Defense Litigation]
• Strong knowledge of state and federal court rules, procedures, and filing requirements.
• Proficiency with LexisNexis, Westlaw, Microsoft Office Suite including PowerPoint, PowerPDF, IManage, records collection vendors and litigation support software.
• Thorough working knowledge of and experience working the Federal and New York court system, including PACER, NYSCEF, E-Courts, and eLaw.
• Experience drafting/posting billable time entries [annual billing requirement is 1400 hours] - Experience with Elite, a plus
• Excellent analytical, communication and organizational skills with a keen attention to detail
• Must be able to manage large case load and manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced litigation and trial environment.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
• College graduate and/or Paralegal Certificate from an ABA accredited program preferred or relevant years of experience.
• Ability to work 3 days in Manhattan office/2 days at home

The annualized salary range for this role is $75,000-$90,000. However, this is contingent upon level of experience, location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.


FLSA Status: Non-exempt


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About Kennedys


Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 48 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.


Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.


We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.


What do we have to offer?


We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.


Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.


The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.


We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.


Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.