Case Assistant - Litigation
Minimum Requirements:
Preferred Requirements:
What will your day look like?
Your responsibilities will include assisting attorneys and paralegals in maintaining case files and creating and updating databases and web-rooms. You will also conduct research and analyze data from a variety of sources for incorporation into briefs and drafting summary reports. Additional duties include compiling documents in support of briefs and witness interviews, organizing document productions, and preparing detailed indices for attorney review. Finally, you may assist with projects that use litigation software, including: Relativity, Concordance, and CaseMap.
Agency applications will not be considered.
- High school diploma
- Basic knowledge in MS Word and Excel
- Flexibility to work overtime
- Undergraduate degree and/or a paralegal certificate highly preferred
- 1 year experience in a law firm supporting paralegals and/or attorneys
- Experience supporting a litigation practice group
- Setting up e-rooms for all litigation and labor-litigation and any future IP cases
- Maintaining e-rooms by entering all pleadings, discovery, correspondence, etc into e-room folders
- Maintaining same pleading information on the DMS in Pleading Folders
Sending filed documents to docketing (checking weekly docket, etc.) - Excellent organizational skills and attention-to-detail
- Proficient in MS Outlook
- Database experience
Your responsibilities will include assisting attorneys and paralegals in maintaining case files and creating and updating databases and web-rooms. You will also conduct research and analyze data from a variety of sources for incorporation into briefs and drafting summary reports. Additional duties include compiling documents in support of briefs and witness interviews, organizing document productions, and preparing detailed indices for attorney review. Finally, you may assist with projects that use litigation software, including: Relativity, Concordance, and CaseMap.
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We offer exceptional career opportunities in an environment that is challenging, rewarding, and, we believe, truly different from our competitors. Our employees enjoy a competitive benefits package and a dynamic and diverse environment in which they can build a long and fruitful career and reap the rewards of their success.