Temporary in Downtown Los Angeles (onsite)
Seeking a temporary Litigation Paralegal with 5+ years of civil litigation experience to support attorneys practicing insurance defense, labor and employment, and municipal law and assist with cases through trial. Duties include reviewing and summarizing document production (Claim For Damages, Complaint, Answer, and Discovery Pleadings), medical/billing records, and corporate financial records. Responsible to review depositions and prepare deposition summaries and medical chronologies/billing summaries; search/retrieve County property ownership and film records; analyze/collect municipal codes and Westlaw case facts; research attorneys and law firm settlement ranges; scheduling depositions of experts, treating physicians, plaintiffs, defendants, and witnesses; preparing, issuing, and amending deposition notices, subpoena deposition notices, notice to consumer; scheduling depositions of party plaintiff, witnesses, party defendants and expert witnesses; collecting/retrieving records (medical, billing, radiology images, employment, education, civil, criminal, tax, driving , public) including issuing subpoenas to collect; preparing records acquisition log for tracking records collections and retrieval; preparing, filing, and serving litigation documents: jury/joint jury instructions, trial exhibit/witness lists, civil subpoena for trial appearance, on-call letter & agreement; and drafting Discovery responses.
Bachelor’s degree is preferred; paralegal certificate is required. Must be proficient with LexisNexis, Westlaw, Adobe, Kofax, and MS Office (Power Point, Excel, Outlook, Word). Possess excellent communication, organizational, and time-management skills with the ability to handle multiple projects. A background in drafting Discovery responses and complex civil litigation procedure is required.
Hours 8:30am-5pm
Hourly range is $36-$39