Paralegal

Paralegal

The Paralegal works with the growing Consumer Financial Services litigation practice group, and is assigned to specific client matters, projects, and/or attorney teams. There is an annual billing component to this role.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct research in online legal resource platforms, such as Westlaw and LexisNexis.
• Analyze and summarize legal sources, such as case law, statutes, constitutions, legal journal articles, treatises, U.S. codes, and other law-related information relevant to practice area.
• Conduct research and run reports in PACER and other online court platforms.
• Work with litigation e-discovery and case management databases and perform certain functions, such as conducting searches, loading transcripts, and coding documents.
• Assist with deposition preparation, including preparation of deposition notebooks.
• Organize and maintain large matter files by accurately and timely saving correspondence, pleadings, discovery, court transcripts, and other case materials to the firm's and/or client's document management and/or collaboration platforms.
• Collect, organize, and Bates stamp documents for production.
• Review and analyze documents in large document productions.
• Collect, organize, and index documents by category, subject matter, and/or chronological order.
• Assist with trial preparation by drafting pretrial disclosures, organizing trial exhibits and notebooks, and assisting with onsite war room and courtroom logistics.
• Retrieve public records from online resources or directly from government institutions.
• Summarize depositions or other legal documents, as necessary.
• Draft and prepare legal documents appropriate to practice area.
• Perform all assignments in strict compliance with ethical guidelines governing the practice of law.
• Receive and follow complex instructions.
• Take appropriate action to monitor and meet deadlines.
• Establish priorities and work concurrently on a variety of projects.
• Ensure excellent teamwork within and among practice groups, offices, and firm to facilitate efficient delivery of legal services.
• Participate in the training and professional development of other paralegals in routine practice elements.
• Maintain the firm's official matter file utilizing the document management system.
• Track and record client-billable time and non-billable hours, meeting the firm's minimum billable hour requirement.
• Maintain and prioritize work responsibly and communicate if unable to meet daily responsibilities.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to use sound judgment and good discretion.
• Ability to effectively and professionally provide quality client service to both internal and external clients.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a deadline driven environment.
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn and develop skills.
• Willingness and ability to accept changing assignments and priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with database file management systems, such as iManage and other records management systems.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Products (Excel, Outlook, Word).
• Excellent grammar, punctuation, and proofreading skills.
• Ability to work independently and use initiative in accomplishing routine assignments with minimum supervision.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience as a litigation paralegal.
• Certificate from an ABA-approved paralegal program preferred.

Compensation is dependent on several factors, such as position, location, market, education, training, and/or experience.

Hiring Salary Range:

$85,000.00 - $125,000.00