Senior Litigation Docket Clerk

Firm Summary

White & Case is one of the world’s largest and most prestigious law firms, with more than 2,600 lawyers located across 47 offices on six continents. White & Case is among the first US-based law firms to establish a truly global presence. The firm has practices – both transactional and disputes – ranked at the top of the market. The firm’s client base includes many of the world’s most respected financial institutions, companies, most promising start-up visionaries, and governmental organizations.

White & Case has a strong, fundamental, client-service orientation, and the firm conducts its business according to three core values: 

• Pioneering – Seizing opportunities to innovate and grow
• United – Acting as “one firm” with a shared sense of purpose
• Human – Caring about its people and the wider world that the firm operates in

White & Case believes their competitive advantage comes from staying at the forefront of what they do and bringing industry expertise and insights to its clients. Their clients and the firm benefit when they work together to provide the best solutions. Their relationships – with each other, their clients, and the wider world – gives their work meaning. These relationships also provide opportunities to innovate in relation to how we provide our services including through use of technology, legal project management and innovative pricing. 

In both established and emerging markets, White & Case professionals are integral, longstanding members of the community. The firm was founded in New York in 1901 and, today, White & Case professionals represent 90 nationalities and speak more than 80 languages.

White & Case has a strong reputation as one of the best-managed law firms in the world, and it has evolved best-in-class capabilities across its broad areas of business operations. It has also been recognized consistently as one of the most innovative law firms in the world and has innovation as a key part of its 2025 strategy.

It is our firm’s interconnected ethos that our people and our clients value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries, which is a primary reason we attract and retain sophisticated cross-border work and attract a diverse group of people to learn, share, innovate, and shape the firm’s future together.

Our people are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative, and committed to excellence. Diversity is a core value of our firm, for which we have received recognition with numerous awards and top rankings around the world.

Position Summary

Working as part of a tight-knit team, you will support attorneys and legal assistants in the Americas by providing in-depth expertise in docketing, calendaring, court rules, procedures, legal proceedings, case activity and electronic court filings.

Although primarily focused on day-to-day operational matters, you will also work on a wide range of projects. You can anticipate unforeseen challenges and will be both resilient and pragmatic in your approach to managing change.

Through extensive contact with lawyers and business services leaders, we are trusted to offer advice and implement changes that help our teams perform at the highest level and deliver outstanding client service.

Duties and Accountabilities1

• Perform legal docketing via docketing software to generate calendars from court documents, correspondence, rules and statutes.
• Research and learn deadlines not contained in docketing software’s automated calculations.
• Provide general and/or specialized docket reports upon request.
• Assist with the quality control of docket and calendar entries.
• Assist with and handle electronic case filings via CM/ECF,