Overview
This role supports the organization’s global employment law function. Reporting directly to the Senior Employment Legal Counsel, the Litigation & Employment Paralegal manages time-sensitive employment litigation and related legal operations across multiple jurisdictions.
The position serves as an operational backbone for employment legal matters, ensuring cases remain organized, documented, and on schedule.
Responsibilities
Employment Litigation Support
- Maintain employment litigation trackers
- Coordinate litigation holds and preservation activities
- Maintain custodian lists and legal hold documentation
- Support eDiscovery and information governance initiatives
- Manage matter files, deadlines, and litigation-related documentation
- Assist with document collection, organization, and production
- Coordinate communications and information requests with outside counsel
- Support mediation, arbitration, litigation, and settlement administration
Employment and People Strategy & Culture (PSC) Support
- Coordinate review of global PSC and legal templates by local counsel
- Maintain severance and investigation trackers, if applicable
- Organize and maintain employment law precedent materials and template libraries
- Assist with policy implementation and template review initiatives
- Assist with HR Compliance initiatives
M&A and Integration Support
- Support employment-related due diligence activities
- Support integration project plans, issue logs, and action trackers
- Coordinate document requests and information gathering
- Support employee transfer and harmonization projects related to acquisitions and corporate reorganizations
- Assist with employment integration efforts across multiple jurisdictions
Legal Operations and Project Management
- Maintain trackers, reporting dashboards, and project plans
- Monitor deadlines and follow-up items
- Coordinate meetings and action items across stakeholders
- Track outside counsel engagements and legal spend information
Requirements
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously
- Collaborative approach to cross-functional work
- Sound judgment handling sensitive employee and legal matters
- Strong customer-service orientation when supporting internal stakeholders
Qualifications / Your Experience
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum 2 years of relevant experience supporting employment/HR law and litigation
- Fluency in English
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously
- Ability to exercise discretion and maintain confidentiality
Preferred Qualifications
- Paralegal certificate
- Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, or integration projects
- Experience working in a multinational or global organization
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range (United States of America): $54,500.00 - $108,500.00 annually
- Compensation will fall within the provided range and is not a guarantee of exact salary. Final salary is determined based on relevant experience, performance, education, and internal equity.
- Base salary plus a competitive benefits package depending on location.
- Pay equity and transparency; compliance with all applicable labor laws.
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