Senior Paralegal

The role

The Senior Paralegal will support complex litigation at the trial and appellate levels. The role involves managing litigation phases, coordinating tasks for legal support staff, and mentoring junior team members.

What you will do

• Coordinate and assign tasks to paralegals and legal assistants
• Assist with training and development of legal support staff
• Administratively manage all phases of litigation
• Administratively manage all aspects of trials and hearings
• Assist with the preparation, filing, and organization of legal documents
• Conduct factual and legal research
• Cite-check legal documents to Bluebook standards
• Organize and maintain case files and electronic case-management systems
• Implement and manage organizational systems for case calendars and documents
• Communicate with courts, outside counsel, clients, experts, and vendors

Required qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years of Paralegal experience
• Experience mentoring and training junior-level legal support staff
• Experience using the federal courts’ CM/ECF system, PACER, Bluebook, and Westlaw
• Thorough understanding of litigation motion practice, discovery, arbitration, trial, and appellate procedures
• Demonstrated proficiency in Bluebook citation formatting and legal citation practices
• Excellent organizational skills and high attention to detail
• Ability to coach and train others
• Ability to function well in a fast-paced, high-volume, and demanding environment
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Excellent time-management skills
• Ability to maintain a thorough understanding of rules and procedures for various federal and state jurisdictions
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise discretion and good judgment

Nice to have

• A minimum of 3 years of litigation experience
• Trial experience
• Associate’s or bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
• An ABA-approved Paralegal certificate

Benefits

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About the company

Keller Postman represents a broad array of clients in class and mass actions, individual arbitrations, and multidistrict litigation matters. The firm pursues exceptional results in high-profile mass tort, antitrust, privacy, product liability, employment, and consumer-rights cases.