Docket Specialist

The role

The Docket Specialist will use and maintain the firm's docketing system to track critical deadlines, court dates, and filing requirements. This role provides docket management across all active litigation matters.

What you will do

• Support attorneys and paralegals in the tracking of deadlines in various litigation matters.
• Perform date calculations while applying jurisdictional rules.
• Maintain calendaring database and update court rule sets.
• Research and interpret laws, regulations, and state and federal court rules.
• Provide guidance on filing procedures across various courts and agencies.
• Review finalized court filings for consistency with court rules prior to filing.
• Prepare and electronically file time-sensitive legal documents.
• Investigate and report on submission procedures for attorney admissions and appearances.
• Investigate and report on potential witnesses using skip trace or public record searches.
• Obtain attorney Certificates of Good Standing and maintain expiration dates.

Required qualifications

• Knowledge of state and federal procedures and court processes, including Illinois, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Texas, Florida, and/or California.
• Knowledge of the federal courts’ CM/ECF system.
• Knowledge of assorted state court filing systems (e.g., Odyssey).
• Ability and willingness to work overtime on nights and weekends as needed.
• Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to multi-task and adapt to changes quickly.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet time-sensitive deadlines and adapt to changing priorities.
• Ability to function well under pressure and in a fast-paced, demanding environment.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise discretion and good judgment.
• Ability to exercise sound independent judgment and proactive problem-solving.
• Ability to communicate with others effectively, listen closely, and convey points clearly.
• 2+ years of litigation docketing experience at law firm

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 (such as Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneDrive, and SharePoint)
• Proficiency in Adobe Acrobat.
• Proficiency in Court Alert or other docketing and deadline calendaring platforms.

Benefits

• year-end discretionary performance bonus
• benefits

About the company

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