Paralegal

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We invite you to explore the position below and to submit your application to join our team!

The Regulatory Investigations, Strategy, and Enforcement (RISE) group's litigation Paralegal oversees budgeting, compliance, and administrative coordination for litigation matters. The Paralegal develops and implements financial and project management processes leveraging tools like Aderant, HighQ, Tableau, and PowerBI to track cases and improve efficiency. Additionally, the Paralegal provides high-level support through coordination, legal research, document management, and trial preparation. This role includes an annual billing component.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as a liaison between the legal team and client legal operations, ensuring timely budget submission and approval, and communicate and implement budget changes. Ensure financial and administrative concerns are clearly communicated.

• Manage budget and project planning for complex multijurisdictional cases involving multiple state and federal agencies.

• Oversee budgeting reports to identify opportunities for process improvements and efficiencies.

• Assist with implementing solutions for budgeting and matter tracking using tools, such as Aderant, HighQ, Tableau, and PowerBI.

• Enhance time entry, reporting, and billing processes to ensure compliance with guidelines and requirements.

• Develop and document processes for quick issue resolution and replication across legal teams.

• Lead project status meetings.

• Analyze and summarize legal sources, such as case law, statutes, constitutions, legal journal articles, treatises, U.S. codes, and other law-related information relevant to practice area.

• Oversee case task lists, draft and review legal documents, conduct research, and collaborate with the Docketing team to ensure accuracy of litigation deadlines.

• Manage large-scale document collection and production by implementing systems for efficient document organization and retrieval.

• Assist with depositions by preparing exhibits, managing transcripts, and coordinating with witnesses and attorneys.

• Assist in trial preparation and execution. Organize trial binders, manage evidence, coordinate logistics, and provide in-court support.

• Utilize litigation databases to conduct searches, load transcripts, and code documents.

• Retrieve public records from online sources or government institutions.

• Cite check large briefs according to the Bluebook under tight deadlines.

• Utilize electronic court systems, such as, the U.S. District Courts and State/Circuit Courts, to ensure compliance with local rules and procedures.

• Organize and index documents, conduct research, and run reports in PACER and other online court platforms.

• Responsible for ensuring accuracy and timely completeness of documents for court filings.

• Collaborate with team members and vendors to support discovery, trial, and arbitration processes, and facilitate delivery of legal services.

• Manage case dockets to ensure that deadlines are met. 

• Periodic overtime and work travel may be needed.

• Maintain confidential information for client and matter related activities.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong proofreading and organizational abilities.

• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and execute with attention to detail, even under pressure.

• Professionalism, integrity, sound judgment, and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential matters.

• Ability to take the initiative, think critically, identify and solve problems, and utilize resources.

• Ability to understand business processes and identify areas for improvement and implement best practices.

• Motivated self-starter successful in a high-performance, fast-paced, dynamic environment with limited supervision.

• Ability to provide quality client service to both internal and external clients, including client-interfacing.

• Ability to learn and utilize new technology and develop skills.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, particularly in using Excel (e.g., lookups, pivot tables).

Education and/or Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree is required or any combination of training, education, and experience that demonstrates the ability to perform the essential duties of the position.

• Minimum ten (10) years of progressive litigation experience.

• Experience with database file management systems, such as iManage.

• PMP certification beneficial.

The Firm will comply with any applicable city or state workplace mandates in effect in regards to Covid-19. 

This position description is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of the job.  The statements contained in the position description are not necessarily all-inclusive and additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned as determined by business needs.

This position description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

By applying for this position, you agree and understand that Troutman Pepper Locke will process your Personal Information pursuant to the terms of our Worker and Applicant Global Privacy Notice. If you have questions about our data handling practices, or you are a resident of California, the United Kingdom, or the European Union and wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at privacy@troutman.com. 

Equal Employment Opportunity
Troutman Pepper Locke adheres to a policy of equal opportunity and will make all employment decisions, which include hiring, promotion, transfer, demotion, evaluation, compensation and separation, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy, citizenship, disability, genetic information, marital or armed forces status and any other classification as protected by law.

Compensation is dependent on several factors, such as position, location, education, training, and/or experience.