Ip Paralegal Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least 5–10+ years of experience as a litigation paralegal.
• Completion of a four-year college degree.
• Knowledge of USPTO post-grant filing procedures.
• Knowledge of federal court filing procedures and electronic discovery.
• Ability to perform cite checking and database searches using Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, PACER, Relativity, the USPTO website, and other search engines as needed.
• Extensive experience with intellectual property rights.
• Ability to organize and prioritize numerous tasks and complete them within time constraints.
• Interpersonal skills to communicate and follow instructions effectively with diverse clients, attorneys, and staff, and to provide information with courtesy and tact.
• Ability to work more than 40 hours per week and, when required, irregular hours.
• Ability to travel locally and statewide by private or public conveyance to assist attorneys with client matters.
• Candidates should be self-starters, highly organized, and team players.

Nice To Haves

• Paralegal certificate (optional).
• Patent experience.
• Experience working with the International Trade Commission.

Responsibilities

• Organize and maintain correspondence, court papers, case records, and materials produced in discovery.
• Review and analyze matters to prepare internal and client evaluations and status reports.
• Draft shells for complaints and answers, routine notices, affidavits, motions, petitions, letters, and memoranda.
• Read and understand technical and scientific materials, including patents, copyrights, marks, and trade secrets.
• Proofread and revise legal documents for contextual, grammatical, typographical, and spelling errors.
• Review and outline depositions, and index and summarize documents.
• Prepare materials for and assist with mailings to clients and other interested parties.
• Research and locate cases, depositions, opinions, reports, and other matter-related information using available resources.
• Compile, analyze, and report data from legal reference materials, regulations, legislative decisions, practice manuals, and discovery materials.
• Contact and interview parties, witnesses, and experts, including obtaining written witness statements.
• Assist with trial preparation by preparing pretrial orders, jury instructions, requested voir dire, jury investigations, witness and exhibit lists, motions in limine, and subpoenas, and by contacting witnesses.
• Assist at trial, including scheduling witnesses and tracking exhibits.
• Establish, organize, and maintain pleadings, attorney and expert witness trial notebooks, document indices, and lists.
• Use computer databases to organize and store information, maintain document-retention systems for large cases, and conduct legal research.
• Maintain accurate daily time records.
• Promote positive working relationships among legal administrative assistants, paralegals, other support staff, and lawyers.
• Follow the ethical requirements in the applicable state's Rules of Professional Conduct.
• Perform special projects as assigned.
• Travel to support attorneys attending to client legal matters, including travel to Washington, D.C.; the position may entail domestic travel.