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Litigation Paralegal

AGG Legal Staffing • Los Angeles, CA 90079 • Posted 2 days ago via LinkedIn

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AGG Legal Staffing is seeking a Litigation Paralegal to join their team in Los Angeles. The role involves performing legal and nonlegal research, drafting various legal documents, assisting with all aspects of the discovery phase, preparing for depositions, summarizing and analyzing legal documents, managing case management databases, and coordinating client billing matters. This position requires effective communication with clients, opposing counsel, and third parties, as well as managing voluminous document production for complex litigation matters.

Responsibilities

  • Perform legal and nonlegal research
  • Draft pleadings, motions, discovery, subpoenas, emails, briefs, memoranda, and other written correspondence on behalf of attorneys
  • Assist with all aspects of the discovery phase including preparing discovery requests, discovery objections, and responses, issuing subpoenas, and coordinating depositions
  • Assist attorneys with deposition preparation including preparing witness question outlines and compiling necessary exhibits
  • Summarize, analyze and prepare depositions, documents, medical records, discovery responses, and deposition transcripts, attending depositions when needed
  • Assist with pre-trial preparation including gathering, review, analysis, and production of documents, including trial documents, medical records and letters of claim, exhibit preparation, trial and exhibit notebooks, preparing direct and cross examinations, and coordinating necessary travel arrangements and various resource needs for trial
  • Communicate effectively with clients, opposing counsel, opposing party, vendors and/or other third parties
  • Manage voluminous document production for complex litigation matters
  • Manage case management database and web-based document repository for e-discovery productions
  • Review, tag, and produce document productions, downloading or uploading documents to various databases as required
  • Accurately enter time and expense records into InTapp Time; prepare expense memoranda and documentation for accounting purposes
  • Coordinate client billing matters, prepare billing letters, and requested client financial updates
  • Prepare redactions and privilege logs

Full Job Description

Law firm in Los Angeles seeks a Litigation Paralegal to join their team!

  • Perform legal and nonlegal research
  • Draft pleadings, motions, discovery, subpoenas, emails briefs, memoranda, and other written correspondence on behalf of attorneys
  • Assist with all aspects of the discovery phase including preparing discovery requests, discovery objections, and responses, issuing subpoenas, and coordinating depositions
  • Assist attorneys with deposition preparation including preparing witness question outlines and compiling the necessary exhibits to be offered during deposition
  • Summarize, analyze and prepare depositions, documents, medical records, discovery responses, and deposition transcripts, attending depositions when needed
  • Assist with pre-trial preparation in the gathering, review, analysis, and production of documents, including trial documents, medical records and letters of claim, exhibit preparation, trial and exhibit notebooks, preparing direct and cross examinations, and coordinating the necessary travel arrangements and various resource needs for trial
  • Communicate effectively with clients, opposing counsel, opposing party, vendors and/or other third parties
  • Manage voluminous document production for complex litigation matters
  • Manage case management database and web-based document repository for e-discovery productions
  • Review, tag, and produce document productions, downloading or uploading documents to various databases as required
  • Accurately enter time and expense records into InTapp Time; prepare expense memoranda and documentation for accounting purposes
  • Coordinate client billing matters, prepare billing letters, and requested client financial updates
  • Prepare redactions and privilege logs