Specialist, Legal

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

3d•$23 - $45•Onsite

About The Position

The (USA) Specialist, Legal plays a critical role in managing complex reporting requests, ensuring data accuracy, and supporting legal matter preparation. This position involves collaborating with internal stakeholders to retrieve and review documents, administer legal systems, and uphold compliance with applicable laws and company policies. The role requires strong communication and analytical skills to provide expert guidance, improve processes, and support business solutions. The Specialist contributes to maintaining integrity and ethical standards while fostering effective relationships across teams to support organizational goals and legal operations. About the team: The Central Intake and Legal Holds Team manages the intake, processing, and assignment of various legal documents. This team plays a critical role in preserving information relevant to litigation by drafting, issuing, and maintaining legal hold notices. Collaborating closely with key stakeholders, the team supports preservation projects to ensure compliance and accuracy. Members utilize strong communication, document review, and process improvement skills to maintain efficient workflows and uphold legal standards. Their efforts contribute significantly to the organization’s ability to manage legal matters effectively and support overall business objectives.

Requirements

Comfort with technology and data
Ability to leverage tools to improve processes.
Knowledge of legal pleadings and documents, legal preservation requirements, general practice areas of litigation.
Excellent judgment and knowing when to elevate issues to leadership.
Conscientiousness in maintaining security and confidentiality of sensitive information, data and communications.
Experience in drafting, proofreading and updating reports and memoranda.
Bachelor's degree in Legal Studies , Business Administration, or related field OR 2 years’ experience in legal, claims investigation, or related area.

Nice To Haves

Formal education or experience in the law.
Organized, detail-oriented, and calm under pressure.
Process-minded and look for opportunities to create efficiencies, save costs, meet goals, and identify risk.
Strong communication skills to interact with leadership.

Responsibilities

Review legal complaints and demands, identifying relevant information and key individuals
Draft and send legal hold notices, updating the notices as new information becomes available and ensuring timely release when the matter is closed
Become familiar with Walmart systems and processes, adopting new tools as they become available, and looking to improve efficiency of current processes
Support intake operations, reviewing and directing communications and queries
Appropriately respond to questions and concerns addressed to the Legal Holds team or regarding preservation processes