O'Melveny has an immediate opening for a
Senior Paralegal in our
San Francisco office.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:- Support all stages of complex legal matters with minimal oversight, including trials, investigations, and advanced case tasks.
- Serve as subject-matter expert in specialty law areas.
- Oversee all phases of discovery, including fact gathering and analysis of documents, document productions, and preparing for depositions and witness interviews.
- Maintain and organizes electronic case files to ensure case documents are easily and promptly accessible to all team members.
- Coordinate court and agency filings, including assembling motion papers and exhibits, coordinating filings of pleadings and briefs, and ensuring proper service.
- Coordinate and manage trial preparation, including creating trial notebooks, identifying and organizing exhibits, coordinating witness schedules, maintaining trial calendars, and communicating with opposing counsel and courtroom staff.
- Coordinate, review, and maintain project status tracking charts for matters, including any tasks and deliverable requirements.
- Conduct factual and legal research to support attorney projects.
- Manage and perform document searches, review, and analysis through various platforms, e.g., Relativity, Opus2.
- Performs complex cite checking and provides guidance to other team members in citation review.
- Proofread briefs and other legal documents.
- Communicate with clients, witnesses, and other outside parties as requested or approved by attorneys.
- Provide guidance, training, and facilitates work coordination for project assistants.
- Accurately records time worked on a daily basis.
- Assist with other department activities as needed and performs additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:- 12-15 or more years' experience performing traditional litigation paralegal functions.
- Extensive in-person trial support and experience is required.
- Proficient with computerized legal research and document retention databases for performing fact and legal research and effective management of complex evidence and case files.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office suite applications including Outlook, Excel, and Word.
- Advanced familiarity with manipulating pdf files in Adobe.
- Masters Relativity, Opus 2, AI, and other legal tools.
- Excellent organizational and written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with attorneys, paralegals, and business professionals.
- Experience providing guidance and support to junior paralegals and project assistants.
- The ability to work overtime and travel as needed is also required.
- A bachelor's degree is preferred.
- A paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved program is required.
- Experience in the Intellectual Technology and Property field is preferred.
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