Careers

1. Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from a four-year university or equivalent job experience
• One year working in a law office or law firm that includes preparing pleadings, discovery, and law and motion work.

2. Skills/Software

• MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• PDF Software that converts PDFs to Word and organizes PDFs into one document for filing/service
• Lexis, Dropbox, RingCentral, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Time59, or other related billing tools.
• Ability to calendar deadlines, including knowledge of litigation deadlines; to save documents to correct legal folders, to type and write at a fast rate of speed, and to file and serve documents and schedule depositions.

3. Job Responsibilities

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Drafting and at least one year of experience drafting:
• Interrogatories and responses to Interrogatories
• Requests for Admissions and responses
• Requests for Production of Documents and responses
• Meet and Confer letters (ability to analyze responses for deficiencies and draft an analytical letter explaining why further responses are required).
• Document productions to avoid privilege and unresponsive documents
• Review document productions and assess whether all responsive documents were produced
• Privilege logs
• Interview outlines
• Deposition outlines
• Subpoenas
• Prepare motions, including demurrers, motions to strike, and motions to compel
• Prepare oppositions to motions and replies to oppositions, including evidentiary objections.
• Prepare exhibits for motions and depositions
• Prepare settlement conference and mediation briefs
• Write memos or letters summarizing discovery responses and documents
• Communicate with clients via telephone regarding status of case and to obtain information and documents in response to discovery requests

Other Responsibilities:

• Implement case organization protocols, including calendaring and document organization.
• Partner with attorney(s) and other paralegals to address client needs.  Give on-site support at hearings and trials.
• Conduct legal research on a broad variety of topics, including employment law and civil litigation, and be able to insert relevant statutes and case law into letters, briefs, and motions to provide authority for legal arguments.
• Conduct case intake in English and Spanish
• Calendaring in Outlook and knowledge of deadlines under California Civil Procedure
• Billing according to client and carrier requirements and inputting billing in online apps
• Efiling documents with California courts
• Serving documents by email and arranging for service of complaints and subpoenas
• Knowledge of court websites and procedures for filing, service, accessing case information, reserving hearings, and obtaining courtroom rules
• Setting up meetings, hearings, depositions, mediations, and other in-person appearances for attorneys
• Other duties as assigned.