Litigation Legal Assistant
talent search proSan Diego (CA)
$85 K - $96 K
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Posted 3 days ago
talent search proSan Diego (CA)
SENIORITY
Senior
SALARY
$85 K - $96 K
About the role
Litigation Legal Assistant
Salary range:
$85K - $96KLocation: San Francisco, CA, San Diego, CA, Irvine, CA Hybrid work policy: 5 days in-office in SF, SD, or Irvine offices during the 90-day training period, then hybrid. Hours are Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm.
About This Role:
We are looking for a Litigation Legal Assistant with 5+ years of litigation experience to support three attorney desks in CDF Labor Law's San Francisco office. You'll own calendaring and state and federal e-filing for those attorneys. CDF is a California-wide labor and employment boutique whose founders came from AmLaw 100 firms, and its five offices work as one team. Every legal assistant is cross-trained and closely supported by a Director of Legal Ops who spent 16 years as a legal assistant herself. What will you be doing? Supporting 3 litigation attorneys' desks, working directly with the Office Managing Partner and the Director of Legal Operations Owning desk-level calendaring in Milana: researching court, local and judge's rules and cross-checking deadlines (the firm has no central docketing team)E-filing in state and federal courts, including tables of authorities, bookmarking exhibits, redacting and Bates stamping Working with legal assistants and attorneys in all five offices on shared cases, and sending document shells and overflow work to the remote legal support team Handling admin work such as travel arrangements, expense reports and entering attorney time
Key Requirements:
- 5+ years as a legal assistant or paralegal in litigation (only litigation experience counts; time in non-litigation practice areas does not)
- Strong e-filing experience in both California state and federal courts
- Hands-on calendaring with docketing software such as Milana, eDockets or CompuLaw, plus experience researching court rules
- Close attention to detail: in the interview you'll do a scenario test where you review documents and spot obvious errors
- Stable job history (several stints of 2 years or less are a red flag) and skill with MS Office 365. A bachelor's degree is preferred but not required; a paralegal certificate isn't needed
Role responsibilities:
Provide support to 3 attorneys desks, calendaring, researching court rules/local rules/judge's rules, cross-check calendaring using software, eFiling in State and Federal courts, creating tables of authority, bookmarking exhibits, redacting and Bates stamping, travel arrangements, expense reports, entering attorney timesheets, other administrative duties as assigned
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