Paralegal Project Assistant Jobs in Portland, OR

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The Paralegal works with the growing Consumer Financial Services litigation practice group, and is assigned to specific client matters, projects, and/or attorney teams. There is an annual billing component to this role.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct research in online legal resource platforms, such as Westlaw and LexisNexis.

• Analyze and summarize legal sources, such as case law, statutes, constitutions, legal journal articles, treatises, U.S. codes, and other law-related information relevant to practice area.

• Conduct research and run reports in PACER and other online court platforms.

• Work with litigation e-discovery and case management databases and perform certain functions, such as conducting searches, loading transcripts, and coding documents.

• Assist with deposition preparation, including preparation of deposition notebooks.

• Organize and maintain large matter files by accurately and timely saving correspondence, pleadings, discovery, court transcripts, and other case materials to the firm's and/or client's document management and/or collaboration platforms.

• Collect, organize, and Bates stamp documents for production.

• Review and analyze documents in large document productions.

• Collect, organize, and index documents by category, subject matter, and/or chronological order.

• Assist with trial preparation by drafting pretrial disclosures, organizing trial exhibits and notebooks, and assisting with onsite war room and courtroom logistics.

• Retrieve public records from online resources or directly from government institutions.

• Summarize depositions or other legal documents, as necessary.

• Draft and prepare legal documents appropriate to practice area.

• Perform paralegal duties and responsibilities as directed by group leader and other attorneys in assigned substantive practice group.

• Perform all assignments in strict compliance with ethical guidelines governing the practice of law.

• Receive and follow complex instructions.

• Take appropriate action to monitor and meet deadlines.

• Establish priorities and work concurrently on a variety of projects.

• Ensure excellent teamwork within and among practice groups, offices, and firm to facilitate efficient delivery of legal services.

• Participate in the training and professional development of other paralegals in routine practice elements.

• Maintain the firm's official matter file utilizing the document management system.

• Track and record client-billable time and non-billable hours, meeting the firm's minimum billable hour requirement.

• Maintain and prioritize work responsibly and communicate if unable to meet daily responsibilities.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to use sound judgment and good discretion.

• Ability to effectively and professionally provide quality client service to both internal and external clients.

• Ability to manage multiple projects in a deadline driven environment.

• Demonstrate a willingness to learn and develop skills.

• Willingness and ability to accept changing assignments and priorities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with database file management systems, such as iManage and other records management systems.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Products (Excel, Outlook, Word).

• Excellent grammar, punctuation, and proofreading skills.

• Ability to work independently and use initiative in accomplishing routine assignments with minimum supervision.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's degree.

• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience as a litigation paralegal.

• Certificate from an ABA-approved paralegal program preferred.

The Firm will comply with any applicable city or state workplace mandates in effect in regards to Covid-19.

This position description is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of the job. The statements contained in the position description are not necessarily all-inclusive and additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned as determined by business needs.

This position description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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