Experienced Employment & Class Action Legal Assistant
Location: Beverly Hills, CA
Job Type: Full-Time, On-Site
Compensation: $65,000–$85,000 per year, based on experience
About Us
We are a leading California employment law firm based in Beverly Hills, focused on high-impact employment litigation, class actions, PAGA representative actions, wage-and-hour claims, discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and other workplace rights matters.
Our firm represents employees in meaningful cases against some of the largest companies in California and across the country. We are looking for an experienced Legal Assistant who is organized, detail-oriented, and ready to support a busy litigation team handling complex employment matters.
This is a strong opportunity for someone who wants to grow in plaintiff-side employment litigation and work closely with attorneys on active cases from intake through resolution.
Position Summary
The Employment & Class Action Legal Assistant will provide administrative and litigation support to attorneys handling individual employment cases, class actions, and PAGA matters.
The ideal candidate has experience with California civil litigation, court filings, calendaring, client communication, discovery support, and case management. This role requires someone who can manage deadlines, stay organized, communicate professionally, and help keep cases moving efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Provide daily administrative and litigation support to attorneys
- Prepare, proofread, format, and revise legal documents, correspondence, pleadings, notices, declarations, subpoenas, and legal forms
- Maintain electronic and physical case files
- Track litigation deadlines, court dates, statutes of limitation, and filing deadlines
- Calendar hearings, depositions, mediations, arbitrations, meetings,handle client calls and emails
- Prepare documents for electronic filing in California state and federal courts
- File documents through One Legal, File & ServeXpress, PACER, and other e-filing systems
- Prepare proofs of service and coordinate service of process
- Assist with discovery, document productions, exhibits, deposition materials, and discovery logs
- Communicate professionally with clients, attorneys, vendors, opposing counsel, court reporters, interpreters, and process servers
- Request, organize, and maintain employment records, personnel files, payroll records, wage statements, and supporting documents
- Assist with class action and PAGA matters, including large document sets, confidential employee information, class administrator coordination, mediation preparation, and settlement support
- Keep case management systems updated with deadlines, notes, documents, and case activity
Qualifications
Required
- 3+ years of California civil litigation experience
- Experience supporting litigation attorneys
- Knowledge of California court filing procedures and litigation deadlines
- Strong proofreading, formatting, and document preparation skills
- Excellent organization and time management skills
- Ability to manage multiple cases, deadlines, and attorney requests
- Professional written and verbal communication skills
- High level of discretion and confidentiality
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
Preferred
- Experience with California employment litigation
- Experience with class action and PAGA matters
- Experience with trial preparation, mediation preparation, or settlement support
- Bilingual Spanish preferred
- Associate’s degree, Bachelor’s degree, Legal Assistant Certificate, or equivalent experience
Technical Skills
Candidates should be comfortable using:
- Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
- Adobe Acrobat Pro
- One Legal
- File & ServeXpress
- PACER
- Electronic case management systems
- Document management systems
- Microsoft Teams
- Zoom
- DocuSign
Practice Areas
This role may support cases involving:
- Wrongful termination
- Discrimination
- Harassment
- Retaliation
- Wage-and-hour violations
- Overtime claims
- Meal and rest break violations
- PAGA representative actions
- Employment class actions
- FEHA claims
- Whistleblower claims
- Failure to accommodate
- Interactive process claims
- FMLA/CFRA matters
Compensation & Benefits
$65,000–$85,000 per year, based on experience- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Paid parking
- Performance-based bonus opportunities
- Career growth opportunities within the firm
Why Join Us
This is a hands-on litigation support role with meaningful exposure to employment law, class actions, PAGA cases, discovery, court filings, client communication, and case management.
If you are organized, reliable, detail-oriented, and looking for a long-term opportunity with a busy California employment litigation firm, we encourage you to apply.
How to Apply
Please submit your resume and a brief note summarizing your litigation support experience.
We look forward to meeting you.