Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio Company, is actively seeking a contract Litigation Paralegal to support one of our law firm clients on site in Atlanta, GA.
Start Date: ASAP once interviewed and selected
Pay Rate: $40/hour
Location: North Atlanta - Galleria
Duration: Open ended, likely at least 6 months
Responsibilities:
- Prepare depositions notices and be familiar with efiling in state and federal courts.
- Prepare subpoenas for depositions and production of documents, and notices of service in state and federal courts.
- Arrange process servers and ensure service of subpoenas and third-party complaints.
- Prepare non-party discovery requests and rule 5.2s as well as efiling in state court.
- Ensuring non-party record compliance, preparing compliance letters, making phone calls etc.
- Must be a self-starter and be able to own a file and take the initiative on ensuring tasks are completed and followed up on timely and have good organizational and tracking skills.
- Prepare discovery requests to plaintiff and rule 5.2, for state court and 5.4 in federal court.
- Prepare documents for production, including redaction and bates numbering and production of same.
- Prepare documents to be used as exhibits to motions, responses, replies, and third-party complaints.
- Review and analysis of insurance policies and other documents and redaction of premiums and other information as needed.
- Review and identify documents for expert review and produce same to experts for review.
- Prepare exhibits for use at depositions, motions, mediations, and trial.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years paralegal experience in a law firm
- Civil litigation experience required
- Familiarity with performing research tasks using web-based legal research services
- Experience working with paperless files. iManage experience a plus
- Must successfully pass a background/drug screen
- Bachelor’s degree and paralegal certificate from ABA approved program required.
LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better, and we encourage all applicants — including people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities — to join us so we can do great things together.
Company Description
Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio company, is a global leader in legal staffing, eDiscovery, risk management, and legal consulting services. The company supports multinational law firms and corporations by providing identifying and sourcing talented individuals for staffing needs, using innovative software, combining deep legal and regulatory industry expertise and excellent client service.