Paralegal - Public Labor And Employment

Overall Purpose: The primary responsibility of this position is to support the attorneys and legal professionals in using litigation support technologies and best practices to deliver the highest quality client services.

Essential Job Duties:

• Manage assigned cases and their related tasks and projects
• Perform full range of litigation paralegal tasks from case inception through discovery process, trial, post-trial proceedings and case closure
• Conduct background checks of all parties, including clients if needed (background checks include, but not limited to, criminal, litigation history, bankruptcy, and social media).
• Prepare and submit Public Records Act and Freedom of Information Act requests
• Assist in propounding discovery, prepare responses to discovery requests; assist attorneys with document production; prepare and review case files, discovery and trial documents in all phases of case management
• Research and investigation to locate witnesses for depositions and trials
• Prepare deposition subpoenas and notices to consumer for production of business records and send out for service
• Review and summarize initial discovery responses such as form interrogatories, special interrogatories and requests for production of documents
• Assist with preparation of meet and confer letter if necessary and remind attorneys of deadline to file any motions to compel
• May have to attend depositions with attorneys and document reviews and productions
• Prepare index of subpoenaed records with production dates and keep track of incoming documents pursuant to subpoenaed requests
• Prepare depositions notices and subpoenas and send out for service; search and review documents and prepare exhibits to be used at depositions
• Review and summarize deposition transcripts;; assemble and index deposition exhibits for reproduction and for use at trial;
• Ability to locate expert witnesses for trial, discuss matter, obtain their availability and forward documents to expert for review, obtain the curriculum vitae (CC) and fee schedule
• Prepare Demand for Exchange of Expert Witness Reports and Documents;
• Prepare Response to Demand for Exchange of Expert Witness Designation with CV and fee schedule obtained from expert witness
• Review and summarize all subpoenaed medical records upon receipt.
• Prepare trial documents such as witness list, exhibit lists, jury instructions, trial subpoenas and on-call letters and anything requested by the attorney. May also need to schedule in house meetings with prospective witnesses and clients
• Assist with selection of documents for witness interviews and prepare and maintain witness folders throughout litigation process
• Prepare and maintain trial binders for attorney use and prepare and maintain multiple sets of exhibit binders for trial; Draft pleadings such as declarations for motions for summary judgment and other motions; prepare separate statement in support of motion for summary judgment; prepare compendiums of evidence and declarations in support of motion for summary judgment
• Create Casemap file and update it with all available information, including, but not limited to, witness information, pleadings, discovery and hearings/events, Link adobe images of documents to CaseMap for each file and work with IT Litigation Support Paralegal in PELE department regarding preservation of all client documents in database appropriate for anticipated volume of documents
• Work with IT Litigation support Paralegal in PELE and download all documents receive from client into Eclipse (IPro) for review and anticipated production of documents and bate stamping
• Prepare database of all discovery produced, deposition transcripts, written documents, expert witness information, etc., for easy access by handling attorneys
• Travel and set up war-rooms and court AV setups; attend trials or other legal proceedings to provide presentation or other technical support services
• Develop and retain relationships with vendors. Work with IT Paralegal in PELE department regarding on recommendations, procedures scanning, coding or e-discovery processing

Litigation PreDiscovery

• Work with IT Litigation Support Paralegal in PELE to create cases to store scanned documents, imported images, and imported electronic discovery
• Work with IT Litigation Support Paralegal in PELE to Review and Process electronic discovery in Eclipse (IPro) by extracting e-docs and/or email and their attachments, metadata and text
• Have IT Litigation Support Paralegal Assign custodians at a batch or source level
• De-duplicate files on a global or custodian level
• Convert native files to adobe format or print to paper
• Review, flag and cull records through the use of grid displays and tag fields
• Invoke batch processes such as Bates numbering, endorsing, OCR (Optical Character Recognition), printing
• Perform optional coding of fields in addition to the default EDLoader fields
• Export native files and/or images, coded data, and text to the desired litigation support application

5 Key Processes to LAW or similar type e-Discovery software:

• Case Setup: Creating the case is the first process in LAW. In this process you build the database to which documents are added and reviewed.
• Acquiring Documents: Includes IT Litigation Support Paralegal processing documents from CD, DVD or flash drive to electronic format, import existing images received from outside sources and importing electronic discovery. Once loaded other processes are performed related to the scope of the project.
• Quality Control/Reviewing/Culling: Once imported into LAW, records are reviewed. The review process may be as simple as verifying errors, warnings, suspected file extensions and duplicate files. More advanced forms of review may involve the process of filtering, searching and tagging.
• Batch Processing: The processing of large amounts of data or records in a single batch. Functions may include numbering, image cleanup, endorsing, file conversion, native file printing and OCR. The processes performed are based on the specifications of the project.
• Exporting: The process of copying data out of LAW and importing to other applications (i.e. Summation and Concordance).

Other Duties:

• Enter, complete and release time on a daily basis
• Ensure billable hours requirement is met
• Proactively work with your assigned attorneys to seek out additional work, when necessary

All other duties as required

Salary: $80,000 - $95,000

On-site