Litigation Paralegal

Employment type: full-time

Abbey, Weitzenberg, Warren & Emery is seeking a Litigation Paralegal with a minimum of 3 years of civil litigation experience to join our plaintiff's practice. This is an outstanding job opportunity for the right person. The following qualities are desired:

• Strong case management and ability to move cases forward to resolution

• Great interpersonal skills -- both inside and outside the Firm

• Strong verbal communication skills

• Excellent grammar, vocabulary and spelling skills.

• Comfortable working directly with clients

• Highly motivated with a strong work ethic

• Efficient prioritization and time management

• Highly responsive, and can perform tasks on time.

• Technologically savvy

• Positive, professional demeanor that can remain calm under pressure

• Strong Procedural Knowledge of all phases of Civil Litigation Procedure

Skills:

Advanced level of Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook), and Adobe Acrobat Professional required. Familiarity and expertise in Prolaw/Case Management, CEB/Essential Forms, Trial Director and AI prompting preferred, but required is the ability to learn software applications.

Strong organization, communication, initiative, and an affinity for working in a team environment are essential. Attention to detail, flexibility, follow-up, ability to consistently meet deadlines, the ability to multi task and work to efficiently bring the client's matters to conclusion in a timely manner.

Areas of Responsibility:

• Draft pleadings, including discovery, responses to discovery, subpoenas, notices of deposition, affidavits, motions, supporting declarations, and other pre-hearing pleadings

• Management and responsibility for collecting documents and document production

 - Identify meet and confer issues and draft meet and confer correspondence

• Organization, indexing, and summarization of client and opposing party documents and evidence

• Draft fact/chronology summaries

• Draft demand letters

• All aspects of trial preparation: exhibit lists, evidence compilation, witness interviews and subpoenas including managing appearances, jury instructions

• Conduct legal research using Westlaw

• Research and draft related summaries and analysis will have litigation experience including trial preparation, answering discovery, ordering and analyzing records, summarizing documents, client contact and assistance with expert witnesses.

The ideal candidate would be someone who is a self-starter, innovative, has a great attitude, strong work ethic, highly motivated, willingness to put in extra hours at peak times, organized, driven and wants to obtain the best possible results for clients!

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree and/or Paralegal Certificate

• Must be in Compliance with California law paralegal requirements

• 3+ years of progressively increasing responsibility as a Paralegal

Abbey, Weitzenberg, Warren & Emery offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. Salary range for full-time paralegal is $44-54 per hour DOE.

If you are interested in applying to join our Firm, and you possess the experience and skills specified, please provide your resume and a cover letter to Kathy Edmonds [email protected].