Litigation Paralegal

A renowned Los Angeles education institution with offices in West LA is adding a contract paralegal to its in-house legal department. This is a working seat next to counsel, not a document review project.

Responsibilities

Employment claims: support fact development on agency claims, pull documents from departments, identify people with relevant knowledge, schedule interviews, keep claim log current, and drive responses to deadline with in-house and outside counsel; Preservation notices: review preservation demands and pleadings, identify custodians, recommend list to counsel, draft matter summaries and notices from template, chase acknowledgments, update as matters develop; Discovery: collection, organization, review, redaction, and production in response to discovery and subpoenas, legal research and backup coverage for the paralegal team

Requirements

Litigation paralegal experience; Preservation and litigation hold exposure, or the judgment to pick it up fast; Ability to track own open items without being chased; Clean written work product for attorney review; Paralegal certificate or equivalent experience

Nice to have

Employment matters experience