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Job Description
Responsibilities
• Calendar and manage all deadlines, including meetings, pre-trial and trial deadlines, depositions, motions, IMEs/DMEs, mediations, etc.
• Under attorney direction, draft correspondence, pleadings, and discovery, and regularly communicate with clients, experts, and defense counsel in an effective and courteous manner.
• Proactively monitor files and escalate/prioritize issues requiring attorney involvement to avoid calendaring conflicts and completion of multiple simultaneous deadlines.
• Under attorney direction, draft pretrial and trial documents including lists of jury instructions, exhibit and witness lists, short statements of the case, and motions in limine.
• Prepare binders for mediations, depositions, and trials (exhibit and trial binders for final status conferences and trials primarily for cases in LA PI Hub).
• Organize and analyze discovery and documentary evidence including medical records, DME reports, depositions, discovery, investigative, and other documents.
• Review, interpret, and prepare medical chronologies and summaries of medical records and deposition testimony (page/line summaries).
• Prepare and handle tracking and disposition of subpoenas or other requests for information, including maintaining indexes of records received, when, and whether summarized.
• Ensure the organization of files including maintenance and management of all documents, including creating, maintaining, and updating indices, chronologies, witness lists, and witness files.
• Conduct research using online media for experts, background searches, and case investigation.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the attorney or administration.
Qualifications
• 4+ years of prior civil legal assistant experience supporting litigators in civil defense or plaintiff-oriented litigation.
• Strong working knowledge of civil litigation and procedural deadlines, including pre-trial deadlines of demands for experts, exchange of experts, and fact and expert discovery cut-offs.
• Work ethic, diligence, and attention to detail.
• Professionalism, civility, and respect.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Requires critical thinking skills, superior communication skills, decisive judgment, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Performs timely handling of highly sensitive issues and materials related to cases.
• Proofreads personal work product.
• High School Diploma and Paralegal Certificate (or 4+ years of relevant work experience)
Compensation
• Compensation will be based on the candidate's work experience.
• Compensation will range from $70k to $90k annually.
• Insurance benefits include health, vision, dental, and life coverage.
• 401k benefits include 100% safe harbor matching up to 3% employee contribution and scaled thereafter.
Job Responsibilities
- The individual in this role primarily supports the firm's litigation team in a fast-paced civil litigation firm
- Calendar and manage all deadlines, including meetings, pre-trial and trial deadlines, depositions, motions, IMEs/DMEs, mediations, etc
- Under attorney direction, draft correspondence, pleadings, and discovery, and regularly communicate with clients, experts, and defense counsel in an effective and courteous manner
- Proactively monitor files and escalate/prioritize issues requiring attorney involvement to avoid calendaring conflicts and completion of multiple simultaneous deadlines
- Under attorney direction, draft pretrial and trial documents including lists of jury instructions, exhibit and witness lists, short statements of the case, and motions in limine
- Prepare binders for mediations, depositions, and trials (exhibit and trial binders for final status conferences and trials primarily for cases in LA PI Hub)
- Organize and analyze discovery and documentary evidence including medical records, DME reports, depositions, discovery, investigative, and other documents
- Review, interpret, and prepare medical chronologies and summaries of medical records and deposition testimony (page/line summaries)
- Prepare and handle tracking and disposition of subpoenas or other requests for information, including maintaining indexes of records received, when, and whether summarized
- Ensure the organization of files including maintenance and management of all documents, including creating, maintaining, and updating indices, chronologies, witness lists, and witness files
- Conduct research using online media for experts, background searches, and case investigation
- Perform other duties as assigned by the attorney or administration
Requirements / Qualifications
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4+ years of prior civil legal assistant experience supporting litigators in civil defense or plaintiff-oriented litigation
-
Strong working knowledge of civil litigation and procedural deadlines, including pre-trial deadlines of demands for experts, exchange of experts, and fact and expert discovery cut-offs
-
Work ethic, diligence, and attention to detail
-
Professionalism, civility, and respect
-
Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
-
Requires critical thinking skills, superior communication skills, decisive judgment, and the ability to work with minimal supervision
-
Performs timely handling of highly sensitive issues and materials related to cases
-
Proofreads personal work product
-
High School Diploma and Paralegal Certificate (or 4+ years of relevant work experience)
Benefits/What We offer
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Compensation will be based on the candidate's work experience
-
Compensation will range from $70k to $90k annually
-
Insurance benefits include health, vision, dental, and life coverage
-
401k benefits include 100% safe harbor matching up to 3% employee contribution and scaled thereafter