Litigation Paralegal

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We are one of the fastest growing firms in the nation, and have offices in Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Miami, New York City, San Francisco, and Wilmington. We continue to expand our geographic footprint and value the talent that comprises each of our locations.

Benesch is proud to announce the opening for a Litigation Paralegal in our Chicago office! This position is hybrid and has work from home flexibility.

Are you a seasoned litigation paralegal looking for a fast-paced challenging position? Do you thrive on working on trials and complex litigation matters? Are you looking to be an integral part of a litigation team and work hand-in-hand with trial attorneys at all levels? Then our Litigation Paralegal position might be your next career move. This role is for the experience litigation paralegal who is excited about managing large scale litigation matters from start to finish as well as being heavily involved in trials.

The Litigation Paralegal is responsible for providing support and assistance to attorneys in the coordination, management, and supervision of all aspects of litigation, including but not limited to handle large caseloads, prepare drafts of legal and other documents and correspondence for attorney review; compile, analyze and summarize information and coordinate efforts between attorneys, clients outside legal counsel, opposing legal counsel, other parties and outside vendors.

• 1. Drafts, reviews and/or analyzes routine legal documents as requested by attorneys.
• 2. Manage large-scale discovery and e-discovery matters, including document preservation, collection and production.
• 3. Provides hands-on operational litigation technology support, including but not limited to projects such as database creation and maintenance; importing images into databases; searching data; exporting data; reformatting and converting data; designing forms and reports; e-discovery processes; scanning, OCR and coding use.
• 4. Organizes and maintains case files using a variety of automated procedures.
• 5. Assists with preparing attorneys and witnesses for depositions and court appearances, including without limitation by assembling case files and evidence.
• 6. Prepares for trials in state and federal court, including managing trial support, creating and overseeing trial exhibits, setting up war rooms and attending trial to assist with presenting evidence, and traveling as needed.
• 7. Reviews and summarizes depositions.
• 8. Manages and assists with finalizing witness affidavits.
• 9. Reviews documents for privilege and drafts privilege logs for attorney review.
• 10. Performs legal and factual research.
• 11. Interacts with outside entities (i.e., courts, government agencies, expert witnesses, corporations, vendors and other law firms) to gather information or coordinate activities as needed in support of firm activities, specifically trials and arbitrations.
• 12. Acts as the liaison between case team attorneys and support staff as needed to ensure that case-specific paralegal services are meeting the team's expectations.
• 13. Meet billable goals as established by practice management.

• 1. Coordinate with attorneys and other legal staff to ensure filings and discovery are reviewed, formatted correctly, and submitted on schedule in compliance with requirements of each courtroom, county and jurisdiction, including but not limited to proofreading, cite checking, compiling exhibits and preparing slip sheets, adding bookmarks to final PDFs per California Rules of Court, adding hyperlinks to citations when required, preparing exhibit indices, running word counts, preparing red actions, etc.
• 2. Finalize and electronically file pleadings, motions, discovery, and other legal documents in California state courts directly via One Legal (or another electronic service), ensuring strict adherence to local rules and…