Paralegal

Position at MTA Headquarters

JOB TITLE:

Paralegal-Torts

SALARY RANGE: $79,568

HAY POINTS: 393

DEPT/DIV:
Legal Department

SUPERVISOR:
Deputy Executive Assistant General / Assistant General Counsel

LOCATION:

130 Livingston Street

HOURS OF WORK: 9:00 am - 5:30 pm (7 1/2 hours/day)

This position is eligible for telework which is currently one day per week. New hires are eligible to apply 30 days after their effective date of hire.

SUMMARY:

An MTA Paralegal assists and supports attorneys in the MTA Legal Department with the delivery of legal services to the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates, including the MTA's Operations, Administration, and Integrated Business Functions areas. Depending on the needs of the MTA and Legal Department, a Paralegal may work on a wide range of legal assignments, including matters involving litigation, transactions, and authority governance.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Assist and support attorneys in the MTA Legal Department with the delivery of legal services to the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates, including the MTA's Operations, Administration, and Integrated Business Functions areas. Depending on the needs of the MTA and the Legal Department, the paralegal may work on a wide range of legal assignments, including matters involving litigation, contracts, transactions, and authority governance.

Regarding litigation-related matters, including matters handled by the Legal Department's Torts, Federal Employers' Liability Act, Commercial Litigation, Labor and Employment, Pension and Employee Benefits, and General Law Divisions and Transit Adjudication Bureau, under the guidance and supervision of attorneys, duties may include:

* Reviewing notices of claim, pleadings, summonses, subpoenas, motions, demands, legal correspondence, and court orders and recording their content and entering and updating deadlines in Legal Department calendars and databases.

* Monitoring court dockets for activity in cases, notifying attorneys, and recording and updating information in Legal Department calendars and databases.

* Maintaining Legal Department litigation files.

* Serving or arranging for service of litigation papers.

* Reviewing discovery demands and preparing draft responses.

* Collecting, reviewing, and redacting documents for discovery.

* Reviewing and working with records that contain confidential and sensitive information, including:

* Personnel, financial, and medical records of employees, litigants, and customers.

* Labor Relations records, including employee disciplinary records.

* MTA Equal Employment Opportunity complaint and investigatory records.

* MTA business records containing financial, confidential, and safety sensitive information.

* Records relating to law enforcement activity and criminal investigation matters.

* Scheduling depositions and statutory hearings and arranging for court reporters and interpreters.

* Preparing digests and summaries of transcripts of testimony and video and audio recordings.

* Preparing litigation papers for service and filing, including compiling exhibits, verifying citations to the record, and cite checking briefs.

* Assisting at depositions, hearings, and trials.

* Conducting fact research and assisting in legal research, including using publicly available databases and Lexis-Nexis.

* Preparing status reports relating to matters handled by the Legal Department.

* Other duties as assigned.

Regarding transactional matters, including matters handled by the Legal Department's Condemnation, Environmental, Finance, Procurement and Contracts, Real Estate Development, Real Estate Transactions and Operations, and Special Projects Divisions, under the guidance and supervision of attorneys, duties may include:

* Assisting in the preparation of correspondence, documents, and forms for execution in transactional matters, including compiling exhibits, proofreading, and checking internal references, completing transfer tax and other forms, and reviewing ACRIS for recording data.

* Managing document workflows with internal clients and counter parties.

* Distributing draft documents for internal review and coordinating receipt and reconciliation of stakeholder comments.

* Reviewing surveys and title documents.

* Updating templates and maintaining template libraries.

* Reviewing notices, demands, and legal correspondence, recording their content, and entering and updating deadlines in Legal Department calendars and databases.

* Tracking and updating attorney workflows and status of open matters.

* Maintaining Legal Department transactional matter files.

* Reviewing and working with records that contain confidential and sensitive information, including financial, pricing, and safety sensitive information of the MTA and others.

* Preparing summaries of documents.

* Conducting fact research and assisting in legal research, including using Lexis-Nexis.

* Recording and filing legal documents with public authorities including tax exemption filings and tort filings.

* Searching online public records and other…