A client's Pittsburgh office is seeking a highly motivated, experienced paralegal to provide support for all levels of attorneys in our Product Liability practice area.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Managing the lifecycle of active matters/cases and monitoring case progress.
- Timely ordering, following up, ensuring receipt, and summarizing of medical, employment, academic, tax, and insurance company records.
- Preparing general motions, pleadings, subpoenas, and other documents as requested.
- Assisting with the response to discovery requests.
- Assisting with document reviews on eDiscovery platforms.
- Organizing factual data in multi-district litigation.
- Deposition and trial preparation by way of:
- Summarizing fact and expert witness depositions;
- Identifying, compiling, researching, and analyzing information prior to preparing reports and exhibits;
- Preparing case files, binders, summaries, and other paper/electronic case materials such as witness binders, pre-trial binders, and compilation of trial exhibits; and
- Coordinating and preparing witnesses (fact and expert) for testimony at trial and depositions.
- Electronic filing of pleadings such as appearances, answers, and all pretrial and dispositive motions in state and federal courts.
- Logging and entering in billable time to Prolaw billing system.
The ideal candidate must have the following skills for consideration:
- At least 5 years’ experience supporting attorneys in complex litigation areas such as products liability, class actions, multi-district litigation, commercial litigation, and personal injury.
- Paralegal Certificate preferred.
- Experience with county, state, and federal courts, including knowledge of CM/ECF filing.
- Strong attention to detail in all work.
- Ability to manage multiple files and to prioritize workloads to effectively meet all deadlines.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with all levels of management, staff, and clients.
- Forward thinking, organized, and a team player.
- Ability to independently solve problems and exercise sound judgment with minimal direction.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Experience with litigation technology applications such as eDiscovery Point, Case Notebook, and Relativity.
- Experience with iManage and Prolaw a plus.
All resume submissions are comepletely confidential, to learn more about this role, please email me at sierra.ragland@gogpac.com.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations.
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