Paralegal - Labor & Employment

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, one of the world’s leading global law firms with offices in strategic hubs of commerce, law, and government across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, is seeking to hire a Litigation Paralegal for the Labor & Employment Practice group reporting to the Senior Practice Support Manager and will be responsible for providing project assistance and case management to attorneys and trial teams as follows.

This position will reside in our Philadelphia office with a hybrid in-office/remote working arrangement which allows for you to work 2 days remotely and 3 days collaboratively in the office.

General Litigation responsibilities including:

• Tracking and communicating case related dates and information.

• Document and database maintenance, including managing and overseeing electronic data document collections from internal and external clients; searching collected data; recommending and refining searches when appropriate; analyzing data as required using computer assisted review technologies; communicating with data custodians and requesters as necessary; collaborating with external vendors, and other internal IT groups.

• The review and preparation of documents, reports and correspondence.

• Assisting with discovery requests and productions, including Bates labeling documents, organizing the production in Firm. applications, creating a document production log.

• Assisting with drafting, proofing, editing, and filing court filings (state and federal) using eFile systems.

• Knowledge of Subpoena preparation and service of process.

• Cite-checking and Bluebooking briefs, memorandum, white papers, etc.

• Creating tables of authority and tables of contents for court filings.

• Ensure that all events/deadlines are properly calendared with the Calendaring Department.

• Assist with witness preparation, direct examination, cross-examination binders/folders for depositions and trial.

• Assembling and tracking deposition, hearing and trial exhibits.

• Knowledge of Labor & Employment law.

Experience/Qualifications

• Experience in a large law firm along with a minimum of 5 to 7 years of litigation paralegal experience is strongly preferred.

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.

• The ability to handle the multiple responsibilities of case management and trial preparation in a fast-paced team environment; must be detail oriented and work error-free.

• Knowledge of MS Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, Kofax PDF and iManage is a plus.

• Familiarity with local, state and federal rules of procedure.

• Understanding of litigation support systems including, Case Notebook, Relativity, ClientSite, strongly desired.

• Legal research skills desired.

• Proofreading and editing skills strongly desired.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills are important.

• The flexibility to work overtime, as needed to meet deadlines is desired.

• Prior paralegal experience in a litigation environment, is highly desired.

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