Job Description
Job Description
Lawyers on Demand is currently seeking multiple contract Paralegals to join our team and support one of our prestigious law firm clients.
Contract Specifications :
Duration : long-term, open-ended
Pay Rate : $37.00 / hour
Start Date : ASAP
Remote, but must live within an hour radius of Los Angeles or San Francisco in the event some emergency on-site assistance is needed.
Responsibilities :
- Organizes, digests and codes in the preparation of legal documents for production, deposition or trial preparation, or other litigation and discovery projects.
- Prepares correspondence, memoranda, outlines for litigation and discovery projects.
- Drafts answers, discovery requests, responses to discovery, basic motions and similar pleadings, under the direction of an attorney.
- Summarizes, reviews and analyzes documents, testimony, general literature, and legislative information for litigation or discovery assignments.
- Compiles and summarizes pertinent medical, scientific and litigation issues and / or incorporates analyses prepared by others into case outlines, deposition outlines and / or testimony outlines, relevant chronologies and other litigation assignments.
- Selects documents to be used in depositions, for trial exhibits or for production.
- Obtains public information applicable to the litigation, as well as medical, educational and employment records on parties to litigation.
- Interviews witnesses and / or company employees.
- Updates clients and litigation teams regarding case status, litigation and discovery issues and assignments.
- Maintains calendar or tickler system, subject to case requirements.
- Keeps abreast of significant developments in areas of assigned responsibility and areas of expertise, in order to undertake assignments as appropriate.
- Understands the full scope of litigation and recognizes relevant information to a case when reviewing documents and / or testimony.
- Travels to clients' offices, vendors, trial locations and other locations with minimal notice; assists in the trials of cases.
- Utilizes and has an understanding of document and case management software, databases and internet sites as needed.
- Keeps track of time in specified intervals and turns in time records as instructed.
- Provides mentoring to Staff Paralegal.
Requirements :
Bachelor's degree or Paralegal Certificate and two plus years of litigation experience or no degree / certificate and six plus years of experience.Experience in all phases of trial and trial preparation including experience with large document production, discovery, interviewing of witnesses and experts, drafting pleadings and subpoenaing records required.Large-scale multi-party litigation preferred.LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better and we encourage all applicants; including people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities to join us so we can do great things together.
Company Description
Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio company, is a global leader in legal staffing, eDiscovery, risk management, and legal consulting services. The company supports multinational law firms and corporations by providing identifying and sourcing talented individuals for staffing needs, using innovative software, combining deep legal and regulatory industry expertise and excellent client service.
Company Description
Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio company, is a global leader in legal staffing, eDiscovery, risk management, and legal consulting services. The company supports multinational law firms and corporations by providing identifying and sourcing talented individuals for staffing needs, using innovative software, combining deep legal and regulatory industry expertise and excellent client service.