Litigation Paralegal

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Senior Litigation Paralegal, the Litigation Paralegal will assist the Deputy Director Litigation Practice, Deputy Director U.S. Strategy, and Senior and Staff Attorneys by reviewing, preparing, and filing court papers in jurisdictions across the United States; researching and summarizing court rules; managing electronic discovery; providing clerical and basic research support services, including document preparation and review; research and fact-checking; trial preparation; and plaintiff support. This position will also provide scheduling and meeting support for the legal team and plaintiffs.

Key Responsibilities:

• For assigned jurisdictions, oversee all case files, organizing them in the appropriate document databases; track court rules and deadlines.
• Manage electronic discovery, including processing incoming and outgoing document production, as well as discovery requests, deposition notices, and subpoenas.
• Gather, review, and summarize documents for litigation and case development purposes.
• Perform basic legal research, including cite checking, on Westlaw.
• Prepare discovery, pleadings, and caselaw binders to prepare attorneys for meetings, hearings, and trial.
• Prepare, edit, and cite-check both legal and scientific sources, format and create tables, and file pleadings and other documents through court filing systems.
• Ensure arrangements for depositions, court reporters and service agents, and ordering of transcripts in a timely manner.
• Assist with client management to support new client outreach; professional monitoring, collection, documentation, and management of client circumstances and related evidence; and to apprise clients of status in cases, in coordination with counsel of record.
• Support legal assistant in arranging case-related travel and logistics for plaintiffs and provide plaintiff support for travel needs including expense and reimbursement requests.
• Support annual outreach and calculation of pro bono support to OCT.
• Prepare agendas for, and record minutes of, legal meetings and keep task lists updated as requested by attorneys and/or Senior Litigation Paralegal.
• Support the legal team with excellent knowledge of all facets of Microsoft 365, including SharePoint and other case management software
• Support other projects, such as PowerPoint presentations, as needed.

This position is a remote position, with Pacific Time Zone preferred. Work is primarily performed Monday through Friday during regular business hours; however, evening and weekend hours may be necessary dependent upon case activity, deadlines, and workload. Some travel may be required at the cost of Our Children’s Trust.

An ideal candidate will have: 5-7+ years of litigation paralegal experience a high level of dependability, being able to respond quickly to litigation needs including short deadlines, a demonstrated commitment to legal excellence; have multijurisdictional experience in the fields of constitutional, human rights, environmental, and/or civil rights litigation; high proficiency with Westlaw, Microsoft 365, docket management, timekeeping, client management, document management software, and Bluebook; and high level of self-management and agency.

Physical Working Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to the extent possible and appropriate in the event of ADA qualifying disability.

This position requires the incumbent to sit for long periods of time; understand speech of another person and speak clearly so listeners can understand; routinely uses fingers to grasp, type move or assemble small objects. Position occasionally lifts and carries files and boxes weighing up to 20 pounds.

EEO Statement

At Our Children’s Trust, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Our Children’s Trust believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people.

Benefits include 100% employer paid medical and dental for employee, long and short-term disability, life insurance, 401(k) plan, 15 days of vacation in the first year, 12 sick days, and 15 company holidays and 5 floating holidays, 6-weeks fully paid Family Medical Leave and 6 weeks of Restorative leave after 6 years.