Specialist, Legal

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:

The (USA) Specialist, Legal plays a critical role in managing complex reporting requests, ensuring data accuracy, and supporting legal matter preparation. This position involves collaborating with internal stakeholders to retrieve and review documents, administer legal systems, and uphold compliance with applicable laws and company policies. The role requires strong communication and analytical skills to provide expert guidance, improve processes, and support business solutions.

The Specialist contributes to maintaining integrity and ethical standards while fostering effective relationships across teams to support organizational goals and legal operations.

About the team:

The Central Intake and Legal Holds Team manages the intake, processing, and assignment of various legal documents. This team plays a critical role in preserving information relevant to litigation by drafting, issuing, and maintaining legal hold notices. Collaborating closely with key stakeholders, the team supports preservation projects to ensure compliance and accuracy. Members utilize strong communication, document review, and process improvement skills to maintain efficient workflows and uphold legal standards.

Their efforts contribute significantly to the organization's ability to manage legal matters effectively and support overall business objectives.

What you'll do:

* Review legal complaints and demands, identifying relevant information and key individuals

* Draft and send legal hold notices, updating the notices as new information becomes available and ensuring timely release when the matter is closed

* Become familiar with Walmart systems and processes, adopting new tools as they become available, and looking to improve efficiency of current processes

* Support intake operations, reviewing and directing communications and queries

* Appropriately respond to questions and concerns addressed to the Legal Holds team or regarding preservation processes

What you'll bring:

* Comfort with technology and data

* Ability to leverage tools to improve processes.

* Knowledge of legal pleadings and documents, legal preservation requirements, general practice areas of litigation.

* Excellent judgment and knowing when to elevate issues to leadership.

* Conscientiousness in maintaining security and confidentiality of sensitive information, data and communications.

* Experience in drafting, proofreading and updating reports and memoranda.

You'll sweep us off our feet if:

* You have formal education or experience in the law.

* You are organized, detail-oriented, and calm under pressure.

* You are process-minded and look for opportunities to create efficiencies, save costs, meet goals, and identify risk.

* You have strong communication skills to interact with leadership.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see  Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.

Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may…