Hybrid Litigation Trial Paralegal

Job Description

Job Description

Foley & Mansfield, a professional limited liability partnership, is a national law firm with more than 110 attorneys in offices from coast to coast. We provide legal expertise, creative solutions and extensive trial experience for large corporations, small businesses, and individuals.

We have an opportunity for an experienced Trial Paralegal to join our California office located in the Monrovia/Los Angeles area. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced trial environment, is highly organized, and excels at managing complex logistics before and during trial.

This position is hybrid: 2 days in office, 3 days remote when out of trial. And, when supporting the attorneys at trial, full on-site presence is required. Role may travel to northern California for trial on occasion.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage all aspects of assigned cases with a strong focus on trial preparation and trial support, from pre-trial through verdict
• Serve as a key member of the trial team, responsible for organizing and running the trial war room
• Prepare, organize, and maintain trial notebooks, trial binders, trial boxes, and exhibit sets for court, witnesses, and counsel
• Coordinate, track, and manage trial exhibits, including exhibit lists, numbering, labeling, and admission status
• Manage and organize trial documents and demonstratives, ensuring real-time access for attorneys during trial
• Receive, process, and organize documents into the firm’s document management system and electronic document repository
• Assist with preparing motions in limine, trial briefs, exhibit lists, witness lists, and jury instructions
• Manage, organize, and summarize certified transcripts, including deposition and trial transcripts
• Coordinate with experts regarding retention, scheduling, document exchange, and trial testimony
• Maintain client extranets with up-to-date case and trial materials and use as a primary communication tool with clients
• Assist with and manage document productions, including trial-related productions
• Enter and track pertinent case data (interrogatory responses, records, earnings information, etc.) into databases
• Provide hands-on support during trial, including courtroom setup, daily exhibit management, and end-of-day organization
• Perform other duties as assigned in support of trial attorneys and litigation teams
• Track billable time in firm’s time entry system

Qualifications • At least three years of litigation paralegal experience • Asbestos, Toxic Tort, Products Liability, or Personal Injury experience preferred • Ability to work in fast paced environment and handle large volume of work • Ability to attend trials, both locally and nationally • Experience with trial war room and trial support.

In return for your talents, we offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes flexible benefits for healthcare/dental/vision, life insurance, disability, 401(k), professional development and training, generous PTO and paid holidays, mental health benefit, and more.

We encourage all qualified candidates to submit your resume and salary requirements for consideration.

Foley & Mansfield believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees, staff, applicants and candidates is critical to our success as a national firm, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Foley & Mansfield is an equal opportunity employer and provides an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and candidates without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable state and federal laws.

Foley & Mansfield PLLP participates in the federal government's E-Verify program. We provide the Social Security Administration and, if applicable, the US Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.