Product Liability Paralegal

A bit about us:

Our client is a Pittsburgh headquartered law firm with multiple offices across several states, providing services to clients nationwide. Their clientele includes large corporations, privately-held companies, municipal entities, small businesses, and partnerships across various industries and sectors. Their attorneys are dedicated to addressing matters practically and efficiently, ensuring that each client's needs are met in the best possible manner.

Why join us?

Our client offers a collegial work environment with competitive salary and benefits, including a hybrid work schedule health, dental, and vision insurance, life and long-term disability insurance, and a 401(k) program.

Job Details

Our client is seeking a highly motivated, experienced paralegal to provide support for all levels of attorneys in our Product Liability practice area. This role will work heavily with pharmaceutical clients.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Managing the lifecycle of active matters/cases and monitoring case progress.
• Timely ordering, following up, ensuring receipt, and summarizing of medical, employment, academic, tax, and insurance company records.
• Preparing general motions, pleadings, subpoenas, and other documents as requested.
• Assisting with the response to discovery requests.
• Assisting with document reviews on eDiscovery platforms.
• Organizing factual data in multi-district litigation.
• Deposition and trial preparation by way of:

o Summarizing fact and expert witness depositions,
o Identifying, compiling, researching, and analyzing information prior to preparing reports and exhibits,
o Preparing case files, binders, summaries, and other paper/electronic case materials such as witness binders, pre-trial binders, and compilation of trial exhibits,
o Coordinating and preparing witnesses (fact and expert) for testimony at trial and depositions.

• Electronic filing of pleadings such as Appearances, Answers, and all pretrial and dispositive Motions in state and federal courts.
• Logging and entering in billable time to Prolaw billing system.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Required:

• At least 5 years' experience supporting attorneys in complex litigation areas such as products liability, class actions, multi-district litigation, commercial litigation, and personal injury.
• Paralegal Certificate preferred.
• Experience with county, state, and federal courts, including knowledge of CM/ECF filing.
• Strong attention to detail in all work.
• Ability to manage multiple files and to prioritize workloads to effectively meet all deadlines.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with all levels of management, staff, and clients.
• Forward thinking, organized, and a team player.
• Ability to independently solve problems and exercise sound judgment with minimal direction.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products - Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Experience with litigation technology applications such as eDiscovery Point, Case Notebook, and Relativity.
• Experience with iManage and Prolaw a plus.

Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Sometimes Jobot is required to perform background checks with your authorization. Jobot will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with any applicable federal, state, or local law regarding criminal backgrounds, including but not limited to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.