Litigation Paralegal

Benesch Law•Sf, CA

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

Benesch is seeking a seasoned Litigation Paralegal for its San Francisco office. This hybrid position offers work-from-home flexibility and is ideal for someone looking for a fast-paced, challenging role involving trials and complex litigation matters. The Litigation Paralegal will be an integral part of a litigation team, working closely with trial attorneys. This role involves managing large-scale litigation matters from start to finish and being heavily involved in trials. The position requires providing support and assistance to attorneys in the coordination, management, and supervision of all aspects of litigation, including handling large caseloads, preparing drafts of legal documents and correspondence, compiling and analyzing information, and coordinating efforts between attorneys, clients, outside legal counsel, opposing legal counsel, other parties, and outside vendors.

Requirements

Paralegal certification from an ABA-approved program (preferred)
8+ years of litigation experience in an AmLaw 150 firm or specialist litigation practice area
Experience with all stages of litigation, including intake, discovery, and trial
Experience preparing for and attending trials/arbitration hearings
Strong working knowledge of federal court procedures and electronic filings systems (CM/ECF, PACER)
Demonstrated ability to research and comply with filings rules in multiple jurisdictions
Experience with platforms such as One Legal, File & ServeXpress, Odyssey, and similar e-filing portals
Solid time management and organizational skills
High level of accuracy and attention to detail
Self-motivated and pro-active
Excellent customer service attitude
Must be available for overtime work and travel as needed
Seven to ten years of litigation experience in an AmLaw 150 firm or specialist litigation practice area (alternative requirement)
Must maintain confidentiality of all documents and information

Nice To Haves

Experience with Opus 2, TextMap, CaseMap, iManage (or comparable DMS), Everlaw, Relativity, Trial Director, MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Responsibilities

Drafts, reviews, and/or analyzes routine legal documents as requested by attorneys.
Manages large-scale discovery and e-discovery matters, including document preservation, collection, and production.
Provides hands-on operational litigation technology support, including database creation and maintenance, importing images into databases, searching data, exporting data, reformatting and converting data, designing forms and reports, e-discovery processes, and scanning, OCR, and coding use.
Organizes and maintains case files using a variety of automated procedures.
Assists with preparing attorneys and witnesses for depositions and court appearances, including assembling case files and evidence.
Prepares for trials in state and federal court, including managing trial support, creating and overseeing trial exhibits, setting up war rooms, attending trial to assist with presenting evidence, and traveling as needed.
Reviews and summarizes depositions.
Manages and assists with finalizing witness affidavits.
Reviews documents for privilege and drafts privilege logs for attorney review.
Performs legal and factual research.
Interacts with outside entities (courts, government agencies, expert witnesses, corporations, vendors, and other law firms) to gather information or coordinate activities as needed in support of firm activities, specifically trials and arbitrations.
Acts as the liaison between case team attorneys and support staff to ensure case-specific paralegal services meet team expectations.
Meets billable goals as established by practice management.
Coordinates with attorneys and other legal staff to ensure filings and discovery are reviewed, formatted correctly, and submitted on schedule in compliance with requirements of each courtroom, county, and jurisdiction, including proofreading, cite checking, compiling exhibits, preparing slipsheets, adding bookmarks to final PDFs per California Rules of Court, adding hyperlinks to citations when required, preparing exhibit indices, running word counts, preparing redactions, etc.
Finalizes and electronically files pleadings, motions, discovery, and other legal documents in California state courts directly via OneLegal (or another electronic service), ensuring strict adherence to local rules and procedural requirements; proactively manages service and proof of service.
Manages e-filings in federal courts using CM/ECF and PACER systems.
Files documents in other state courts across various U.S. jurisdictions, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of or reviewing relevant filing procedures and platform requirements for each jurisdiction.
Coordinates with vendors for manual filings, courtesy/chambers copies, personal service, and record retrieval.
Monitors court docket systems for updates, deadlines, and filings. Regularly reviews the internal docketing system and cleans dockets by removing or marking non-essential/duplicative dates.
Tracks and manages calendaring related to court deadlines and filing schedules.
May require overtime as needed.
Performs additional office support duties as assigned/requested.