Experienced Litigation Paralegal

Position Overview

Key Responsibilities

Case Management

• Assist attorneys with matters from initial case evaluation through final resolution.
• Attend client and witness interviews and help gather relevant information.
• Organize and maintain electronic and physical case files.
• Investigate and analyze factual issues.
• Maintain litigation calendars and monitor court, discovery, deposition, trial, and appellate deadlines.
• Coordinate service of process and communicate with courts, clients, witnesses, experts, and vendors.

Discovery and Document Production

• Draft interrogatories, requests for production, requests for admission, disclosures, and related discovery documents.
• Assist attorneys and clients with preparing discovery responses.
• Coordinate the collection, review, organization, and production of documents.
• Review documents for relevance, responsiveness, confidentiality, and privilege.
• Prepare production sets and privilege logs.
• Manage documents using Relativity or another e-discovery platform.

Depositions and Pretrial Preparation

• Schedule depositions and coordinate witnesses, court reporters, videographers, and other vendors.
• Prepare deposition notices, subpoenas, exhibits, and witness materials.
• Summarize and index deposition transcripts.
• Work with attorneys, experts, and witnesses to organize supporting documents and exhibits.
• Prepare trial notebooks, exhibit lists, witness lists, chronologies, and other case materials.
• Assist with drafting pretrial motions, pleadings, and trial-related filings.

Trial, Appeal, and Post-Judgment Support

• Coordinate witness subpoenas and appearance schedules.
• Manage exhibits and provide in-court support during hearings and trials.
• Track testimony and maintain updated exhibit records.
• Maintain appellate deadlines and assist with notices of appeal, record review, appendices, and briefs.
• Perform cite-checking and validate legal authorities.
• Assist with judgment-enforcement matters, including garnishments, levies, writs of execution, and abstracts of judgment.

General Litigation Support

• E-file documents in Texas state and federal courts.
• Draft routine motions, stipulations, notices, correspondence, and memoranda.
• Conduct preliminary legal research using Westlaw, Lexis, or comparable resources.
• Prepare and format tables of contents and tables of authorities.
• Convert, combine, label, organize, and edit PDF documents.
• Maintain case calendars, records, and filing systems.
• Perform other litigation-support responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• At least five years of paralegal experience in a law firm environment.
• Demonstrated experience supporting complex civil litigation.
• Fiduciary, probate, trust and estate, or guardianship litigation experience is preferred.
• Candidates with commercial, business, financial, or other sophisticated litigation experience will be considered.
• Working knowledge of Texas state and federal court procedures and electronic filing systems.
• Experience managing discovery and document productions.
• Proficiency with Relativity or another e-discovery platform.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong PDF editing and legal-document formatting skills, including styles, track changes, tables of contents, and tables of authorities.
• Excellent proofreading, grammar, spelling, and editing abilities.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and time-management skills.
• Ability to prioritize multiple assignments and meet competing deadlines.
• Professional communication skills and the ability to work effectively with attorneys, clients, staff, witnesses, experts, and outside parties.
• Ability to work additional or irregular hours when required by case activity or trial schedules.
• Ability to travel occasionally for case-related needs.

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Paralegal certificate required; substantial directly related experience may be considered in place of certification.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university preferred.

Confidential Application Process