Litigation Paralegal
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Des Moines • Iowa • 🇺🇸 United States
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JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Communicate professionally, productively, and efficiently with clients, contacts, attorneys, other paralegals, and all other professional staff
- Provide support to attorneys with drafting pleadings, efiling, conducting factual and legal research, document review/analysis, preparing productions, and preparing for hearings, depositions and mediations
- Review, gather, and organize client documents from production to discovery
- Assist with preparing pleadings, discovery requests and responses
- Provide general office support, maintain and organize files, scan/copy documents, maintain calendars, prepare expense reports, and coordinate internal/external meetings
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Legal assistant and/or paralegal experience, preferably in a large law firm setting
- Experience in litigation support, case management, and new matter intake process
- Familiarity with the Iowa State and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Experience with court eFile; state and federal courts
- Ability to adapt to changes in work environment and manage multiple cases, remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful and efficient, with a high level of professionalism
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team
- Experience drafting and organizing discovery – both written discovery and document production
- Experience with Summation Pro, Relativity or comparable eDiscovery litigation support software is a plus
- Excellent analytical and written communication skills
- Strong attention to detail, organizational and technical skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401K
- PTO
- Disability
- Parental Leave
- Life Insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
litigation supportcase managementdocument reviewlegal researchdrafting pleadingsdiscovery requestsdocument productioncourt eFileIowa State Rules of Civil ProcedureFederal Rules of Civil Procedure
Soft skills
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