Corporate Litigation Paralegal

Overview

Join our corporate legal group where you can leverage your experience on a tight‑knit team! Our Corporate Paralegal will assist in managing the pre‑litigation and litigation process and case load while working independently on resolving small to medium sized/complex legal matters. They will also provide advanced support to attorneys in the Legal Department and internal clients (Rollins Support Center/Corporate managers and the field operations managers).

The Paralegal II will seek opportunities for innovation and collaboration across departments to support litigation and compliance initiatives.

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You will be responsible for.

• Support Litigation and Compliance team with management of cases, disputes, and projects on a wide variety of topics including general litigation, compliance, employment, regulatory, government investigations, class actions, and others
• Manage and support litigation and claims updates in Counsel Link and other systems and internal reporting; make status/strategy updates to litigation matters in Counsel Link and other internal reporting systems
• Manage internal discovery functions by preserving, collecting and producing documents and data in coordination with Legal Department, Risk Management Department, and outside counsel; including e‑discovery and managing outside vendors on large‑scale discovery and document production requests
• Support receipt and distribution of Service of Processes sent to the Company
• Independently manage small claims, developing defenses and preparing witnesses and field personnel
• Handle subpoenas for deposition and/or production of Company documents where the Company is not a named party; oversee document collection, review, and production
• Independently handle and resolve customer service complaints for operations managers
• Prepare and distribute Notices of Litigation for new litigation matters to appropriate Company teammates
• Manage eDiscovery, e‑mail, legal and document preservation holds to meet Company’s business/legal needs; manage and analyze Company documents retention and destruction policies
• Manage integration and specific customer design criteria for Department’s matter management system

• Coordinate with IT, in‑house counsel, and outside counsel to establish and monitor required legal holds on user accounts for email retention related to litigation matters
• Serve as team lead for outside counsel to work with the Law Department to plan and execute electronic discovery projects through the litigation lifecycle
• Formulate defense strategies to respond to discovery requests, locating, identifying and analyzing documents and information responsive to requests and work with outside counsel to respond/object to requests
• Identify key Company witnesses for depositions, small claims, and trial; make strategy recommendations in preparation of witnesses to testify; analyze testimony of witnesses, make recommendations on further defense tactics in light of testimony
• Interview key witnesses and prepare written summary of critical evidence
• Contact internal clients (RSC and the field) directly to collect and prepare documents needed to respond to discovery in a lawsuit or in an administrative/regulatory proceeding
• Assist attorneys in the Legal Department in the handling of internal (Home Office) and external (field and outside counsel) requests for information and advice on customer complaints or inquiries, litigation and administrative/regulatory proceedings
• Conduct case specific research using internal Company databases (BOSS, Doc View, JD Edwards, intranet), external databases (Westlaw), and internet websites

• Act as team leader on special projects to support the Legal Department’s compliance initiatives
• Research and evaluate business practices and procedures as requested
• Develop improved policies to ensure Company’s legal compliance objectives
• Work with the attorneys in Legal Department to systematically audit and revise policies and procedures Company‑wide to ensure ongoing compliance; prepare report of findings for executive…