Litigation Services Attorney

Latham & Watkins LLP • Los Angeles, CA

1d • $150,000 - $170,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Latham & Watkins is seeking a Litigation Services Attorney for its Litigation Services team. This role involves providing high-level legal analysis on complex procedural and strategic issues in state and federal courts. Responsibilities include reviewing filings for form and procedural content, preparing procedural roadmaps for court filings, and advising the Litigation & Trial Department on court rules, civil procedure, filing protocols, and deadline calculations. The attorney will utilize research platforms like Westlaw, LexisNexis, CourtLink, and Lex Machina for legal research across multiple jurisdictions. This position is based in the Los Angeles office in Century City and may offer a flexible, hybrid working schedule.

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge of applicable court rules and procedures, and ability to apply court rules in multiple jurisdictions quickly, efficiently, and in a manner which instills confidence and ensures risk management.
• Ability to articulate complex court rules and calendaring issues in a comprehensible, accurate, confident, and concise manner.
• Analytical skills needed to correctly comprehend and convey complex legal principles.
• A J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school.
• A current bar admission in a relevant state.
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience as a practicing litigation attorney and/or attorney in a Docket/Calendar/Litigation Services environment.

Responsibilities

• Conducting judicial research to develop profiles and analytics on specific judges, including the review of transcripts.
• Overseeing and performing calendaring functions, which may include maintaining a calendar of litigation deadlines for all contested matters utilizing a firm-approved calendaring program, and regularly communicating deadlines to firm-wide litigation teams.
• Overseeing and performing court services functions, which may include researching and retrieving court documents in paper and electronic databases, reviewing and filing client and Firm court documents in paper and electronic form, processing daily litigation mail, and coordinating the use of process servers for the office.
• Preparing roadmaps to guide attorneys through procedural and logistical elements of complex court filings, flagging procedural intricacies, highlighting strategic opportunities, and providing best practices based on judicial preferences.
• Providing advice to litigation attorneys regarding forms of pleadings and interpretation of court rules in local and remote jurisdictions.
• Maintaining an awareness through the case calendar and other means of upcoming filing deadlines, communicating the deadlines to the litigation team in advance, assisting the Litigation Services Managing Attorney in coordinating staff and resources needed for timely filing, confirming confidential materials have been redacted, reviewing the filing for both content and format compliance with court rules, and completing the process with the distribution of courtesy copies, communications to the litigation team and other procedures.
• Maintaining familiarity with e-filing procedures and vendors for all courts relevant for the office’s litigation practice; arranging for e-filing training for Litigation Services staff, and participating in the e-filing process at the request of attorneys.
• Coordinating court admissions for the office, communicating to attorneys and secretaries, directing the data collection and verification process, and establishing workflows for addressing incoming and departing attorney’s admissions; maintains electronic court filing (ECF) passwords.
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains.

Benefits

• Healthcare, life and disability insurance
• A generous 401k plan
• At least 11 paid holidays per year
• A PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
• Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
• Professional development programs
• Employee discounts
• Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level