Litigation Paralegal (San Diego)

Best Best & Krieger LLP•San Diego, CA

6d•$46 - $49

About The Position

The Litigation Paralegal II provides advanced litigation, case management, discovery, trial, and project support for the Firm’s Special District, Municipal, and Civil Litigation practices. The position works with attorneys, clients, litigation support professionals, vendors, court personnel, and opposing counsel throughout litigation, from case inception through trial and post-judgment proceedings. The paralegal independently manages significant case responsibilities, anticipates attorney and client needs, and uses litigation support applications, eDiscovery platforms, document review technologies, and approved AI tools to improve efficiency, accuracy, and case outcomes. AI-assisted workflows must comply with Firm policies, client requirements, court rules, and applicable ethical obligations. The role includes managing cases and calendars; supporting discovery, law and motion practice, hearings, depositions, alternative dispute resolution, trials, appeals-related work, and post-judgment proceedings; and preparing legal documents, analyses, chronologies, and case materials. The paralegal also helps develop defensible discovery strategies, manages electronically stored information and large document repositories, supports technology-driven process improvements, and provides guidance on litigation technology and approved AI workflows. The position requires meeting the Firm’s annual billable-hour requirement of 1,500 hours, maintaining regular business hours, and working additional hours, including evenings and weekends, as required by deadlines, trial schedules, and client needs. Office attendance may be requested depending on litigation needs or the working attorney. Short-notice travel on behalf of the Firm is required.

Requirements

At least seven years of experience as a litigation paralegal.
A B.A. or B.S. degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent experience.
A paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved program or an affidavit documenting work experience sufficient to comply with California Business and Professions Code Sections 6450–6456.
Advanced knowledge of litigation technology, eDiscovery platforms, and electronic document review systems, such as Relativity, Everlaw, DISCO, Logikcull, Reveal, or similar platforms.
Experience using AI-assisted review technologies, TAR, predictive coding, analytics, and workflow automation tools in eDiscovery environments.
Familiarity with generative AI platforms and legal AI applications for summarization, document analysis, drafting assistance, research support, and workflow efficiency, and the ability to evaluate and validate AI-generated content.
Understanding of ethical, confidentiality, privilege, cybersecurity, and client-specific considerations associated with AI use in legal practice.
Strong project-management skills and ability to coordinate complex discovery matters involving large volumes of ESI.
Ability to identify process improvements and implement technology-driven solutions for litigation support.
Experience and satisfactory skill levels across the listed responsibilities, with excellent skills in several areas.
Strong organizational, analytical, and research skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Attention to detail and initiative.
Flexibility, composure, and ability to prioritize and handle multiple urgent tasks accurately and competently.
Ability to remain professional under stressful circumstances and sensitivity to ethical and confidentiality requirements.
Ability to work effectively as a team member and independently with little supervision.
Initiative and leadership in analyzing and resolving problems.
Flexibility to travel on short notice for and on behalf of the Firm.
Ability to meet the annual billable-hour requirement of 1,500 hours, maintain regular business hours, and work additional hours, including evenings and weekends, as required.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with appeals and writs.

Responsibilities

Independently manage cases from inception through close and proactively anticipate attorneys’ needs.
Interpret and apply laws, statutes, regulations, rules of court, civil and appellate procedure, discovery rules, and local rules.
Conduct eDiscovery, including document review for relevance and privilege, redactions, and privilege-log preparation.
Conduct legal research using IT, library, commercial, and online resources, including Westlaw, HeinOnline, CEB, and Rutter Guides.
Cite-check, Shepardize, and proofread briefs and other legal documents using applicable style guides and the Bluebook.
Support pleading and discovery processes, including drafting documents, arranging service of process, preparing notices and subpoenas, preparing for depositions and expert discovery, propounding and responding to written discovery, and drafting discovery motions and declarations.
Prepare witness interview memoranda; review and summarize deposition and court transcripts and other documents; and prepare and maintain privilege logs.
Support law and motion practice by drafting and assembling motion papers and exhibits, assisting with filings, and ensuring proper service.
Organize and maintain case-related materials.
Attend and assist at meetings, hearings, depositions, arbitrations, mediations, and trials as requested; communicate with opposing counsel and court staff.
Calculate and review docketing dates and maintain required case calendars.
Support trial preparation, including subpoenas, on-call agreements, jury instructions and research, voir dire, trial notebooks, exhibits, witness lists and schedules, pretrial and trial pleadings, and trial calendars.
Prepare or supervise vendor preparation of graphs and demonstrative exhibits.
Assist attorneys at trial with trial software and similar technology.
Liaise with practice support teams to direct data collections, productions, and other data-driven projects.
Use eDiscovery platforms and technology-assisted review tools, including TAR, continuous active learning, email threading, near-duplicate identification, conceptual analytics, and AI-assisted review, to identify responsive, privileged, and key documents.
Help attorneys and litigation support teams develop and implement defensible discovery strategies covering collection, processing, review, production, quality control, privilege review, and data management.
Use approved generative AI tools for summarization, transcript analysis, chronology creation, issue identification, fact development, witness-preparation materials, discovery analysis, and first drafts of litigation-support documents, subject to attorney review and Firm policies.
Validate AI-generated work product and AI-assisted document review results for accuracy, completeness, confidentiality, and compliance with legal and ethical standards.
Collaborate with attorneys and litigation support personnel to evaluate legal technologies, AI-enabled workflows, and process improvements.
Prepare chronologies, case assessments, factual investigations, damages analyses, and litigation-support materials using traditional and technology-assisted methods.
Manage large document repositories, structured data, and ESI, including tracking, reporting, and production management.
Provide guidance to attorneys, paralegals, and support staff on litigation technologies, eDiscovery best practices, and approved AI tools and workflows.
Prepare post-litigation documents, including judgments, entries of judgment, memoranda of costs, attorney-fee motions, abstracts of judgment, and judgment-collection materials.
As needed and as authorized, supervise other paralegals, manage workflow, assist with Paralegal I training, and delegate responsibilities.
Observe assigned secretarial support and contribute to annual performance evaluations when requested by Firm administration.
Perform other tasks required by Firm attorneys or Firm Administrators.