Sr. Paralegal

Overview

An organization is seeking an experienced and autonomous Senior Paralegal to support a high-volume, fast-moving litigation docket. This role focuses primarily on litigation support, with significant responsibility for litigation operations and reporting. The position involves managing substantive paralegal work across various matters, including case management, discovery coordination, legal holds, subpoenas, and related litigation support. Additionally, the role includes improving processes, tools, and workflows to enhance the team's effectiveness and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of litigation and pre-litigation matters, maintaining organized case files, calendars, and documentation.
• Support case management from intake through resolution, including matter tracking, file management, status updates, and concise matter summaries for attorneys.
• Serve as a key point of contact with outside counsel regarding case logistics, deadlines, pleadings, filings, and status reporting.
• Independently manage key litigation support workflows related to fact development and discovery, including document collections, technical data gathering, review coordination, production tracking, and related documentation.
• Coordinate legal holds, preservation workflows, and custodian outreach in partnership with eDiscovery and cross-functional teams.
• Manage subpoenas, third-party requests, and related intake and response tracking.
• Support deposition, hearing, arbitration, and trial preparation.
• Assist with invoice review and matter budgeting in partnership with Legal Operations and Finance, identifying anomalies, trends, and process improvement opportunities.
• Own recurring litigation reporting and maintain visibility into matter volume, spend, key risks, and trends.
• Build and improve litigation dashboards, trackers, and reporting infrastructure to increase visibility, consistency, and scalability.
• Produce Board-ready and executive-ready reporting materials, including decks, narratives, one-pagers, and talking points that clearly communicate risk, trends, and outcomes.
• Collaborate with Legal Operations, Finance, and other stakeholders to improve intake, reporting, and outside counsel management processes.
• Develop and maintain litigation knowledge resources, playbooks, standard operating procedures (SOPs), templates, and internal reference materials to improve consistency, reuse, and operational efficiency.
• Develop and enhance AI-enabled workflows, prompt templates, and other repeatable tools to increase efficiency, consistency, and scalability across litigation and operational work.
• Identify high-impact opportunities to use AI and automation to streamline recurring tasks such as summarization, first-pass drafting, reporting support, operational documentation, and matter tracking.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant litigation paralegal experience in a law firm, in-house, or similarly complex legal environment.
• Deep familiarity with litigation lifecycle management, including discovery coordination, legal holds, subpoenas, and outside counsel management.
• Hands-on experience with legal hold platforms, matter management systems, eDiscovery tools, eBilling systems, and other legal technology to manage litigation workflows.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple matters, prioritize effectively, and drive progress across stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, and exceptional attention to detail, including strong proofreading, formatting, and quality-control skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly and translate legal requests into practical next steps for cross-functional stakeholders, including technical and operational partners.
• Demonstrated ownership mindset, with the ability to identify issues, propose solutions, and proactively improve processes.
• Comfort learning and using new tools in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
• Experience creating polished reporting, dashboards, decks, and concise narrative updates for senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience across a diverse litigation docket, including intellectual property or other technically complex matters.
• Experience building or improving operational processes, templates, or playbooks.
• Experience applying AI tools to improve workflow efficiency and quality.
• Bachelor's degree or Paralegal Certificate preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $98,561 to $202,918 USD annually.
• Position is eligible for equity.
• Final salary is based on factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, and particular skills and expertise.

Location & Work Model

• This role can be situated anywhere in the United States.
• In-person collaboration may be required 1-2 times per quarter.
• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

Equal Opportunity Statement

The employer is an equal opportunity organization and makes employment decisions based on merit. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable laws. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with legal requirements. Accommodations for medical or religious needs during the application process are available upon request.