Litigation Paralegal, Assistant Vice President

State Street•Boston, MA

1d•$70,000 - $130,000

About The Position

State Street’s Litigation Team is seeking an experienced litigation paralegal to support litigation, investigations, discovery, legal process, and related litigation operations across the company. The role works closely with Litigation Team attorneys and collaborates with business personnel, outside counsel, and other stakeholders on matters affecting State Street’s businesses and functions. The successful candidate brings strong litigation experience, sound judgment, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to independently manage multiple matters and projects in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Minimum of five years of litigation paralegal or comparable litigation-support experience.
Demonstrated experience managing multiple complex matters, projects, and competing priorities simultaneously.
Experience with eDiscovery, including identification, preservation, collection, review, and production of electronically stored information.
Experience supporting litigation holds, subpoena responses, discovery requests, or other formal legal and regulatory information requests.
Experience maintaining litigation or matter-management information and supporting management reporting.
Excellent organizational, project-management, and time-management skills, with strong attention to detail.
Ability to independently manage multiple time-sensitive matters and competing priorities.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to communicate effectively with attorneys, senior leaders, business personnel, outside counsel, and third-party service providers.
Strong legal research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Strong proficiency with Microsoft 365 and ability to work effectively with litigation, eDiscovery, matter-management, document-management, legal-research, artificial intelligence, and automation technologies.
Strong judgment and discretion in handling confidential, privileged, and sensitive information.
Ability to work independently and collaboratively across functions and business units.
Demonstrated initiative, adaptability, and commitment to improving processes and ways of working.

Nice To Haves

Paralegal certification.
Experience supporting internal investigations or regulatory matters.
Experience within a large financial institution or other highly regulated organization.
Familiarity with State Street’s businesses and organizational structure.

Responsibilities

Provide senior paralegal and litigation operations support to the Litigation Team on matters affecting business units and functions across State Street.
Manage intake, tracking, and appropriate routing of legal process and other formal legal requests, including complaints, subpoenas, court orders, and regulatory requests.
Coordinate responses to subpoenas, discovery requests, and other legal demands, including identification, preservation, collection, review, and production of documents and electronically stored information (ESI).
Coordinate litigation holds and other preservation activities, including custodian identification, issuance and tracking of legal hold notices, and coordination with relevant business, technology, records-management, and other personnel.
Maintain accurate litigation matter information and track significant developments, deadlines, case status, and other key information.
Assist with periodic litigation reports, management presentations, and other reporting for senior management and the General Counsel.
Support internal investigations and responses to regulatory and governmental inquiries, including document collection, information management, factual research, and stakeholder coordination.
Partner with Litigation Team attorneys, business personnel, outside counsel, and third-party service providers on litigation, investigations, discovery, and related matters.
Conduct legal and factual research in support of litigation and investigations.
Support development and maintenance of litigation-related policies, procedures, training materials, and continuing legal education programs for the Legal Division and business personnel.
Identify opportunities to improve litigation processes, information management, reporting, and effective use of technology.
Support other litigation, investigation, and legal operations initiatives as needed.

Benefits

Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match.
Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional additional coverages.
Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
Access to the Employee Assistance Program.
Incentive compensation, including eligibility for annual performance-based awards, with certain sales-role exceptions.
Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
Inclusive development opportunities.
Flexible work-life support.
Paid volunteer days.
Employee networks.