Litigation Paralegal

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Newark, NJ

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
SKILLS
Accounts Receivable, Administrative Skills, Analysis Skills, Billing, Calendar Management, Communication Skills, Document Management, Insurance, Legal, Legal Support Skills, Litigation, Organizational Skills, Paralegal, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Production Schedule, Proofreading, Record Keeping, Records Management, Relativity, Research Skills, Team Player, Time Management, iManage
LOCATION
Newark, NJ
POSTED
6 days ago

Overview

The Newark, NJ office of Lewis Brisbois, a full-service AmLaw 100 firm, is seeking an experienced Insurance Defense Litigation Paralegal to support attorneys handling a high-volume caseload on behalf of insurers and their insureds. This role suits a detail-driven professional who can proactively manage assignments with some autonomy. Ability to effectively communicate with team and with court personnel, third-party vendors and keep complex matters organized from first notice through resolution.

We offer competitive compensation and in addition, Lewis Brisbois offers a range of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k with employer match, as well as sick and vacation time. We also offer flexibility for hybrid work, a collaborative team and steady, varied insurance defense work.

Responsibilities

  • Draft, edit, and proofread pleadings, discovery materials, motions, and legal correspondence
  • Manage large volumes of records, documents, evidence, and exhibits with accuracy and organization
  • Review, analyze, and summarize various records; prepare timelines and chronologies
  • Support deposition, hearing, and trial preparation, including trial binders, exhibit lists, and witness coordination
  • Maintain litigation calendars, deadlines, and case progress tracking
  • Request various records and management of updates and tracking
  • Communicate effectively with clients, experts, providers, opposing counsel, and court personnel
  • Coordinate expert retention, discovery schedules, and document production
  • Work in collaboration with internal and external eDiscovery teams to assist in eDiscovery activities
  • Conduct factual research and assist attorneys with case development
  • Perform occasional administrative tasks as part of a collaborative litigation support environment
  • Adhere to carrier billing guidelines and litigation / matter reporting requirements
  • Cite checking court filings
  • E-filing (state and federal) experience NY/NJ preferred
  • Maintain accurate records in the firm's matter management and document systems.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or Paralegal Certificate. A certificate may be required based on region, state, or client requirements
  • 3+ years of litigation paralegal experience, with insurance defense experience strongly preferred
  • Familiarity with carrier reporting, litigation guidelines, and e-billing platforms
  • Working knowledge of state and federal court rules and e-filing procedures
  • Experience with eDiscovery platforms (e.g., Relativity) and document management systems such as iManage
  • Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage competing deadlines across multiple files
  • Clear, professional written and verbal communication
  • Adaptability and collaborative approach to work
  • This position has an annual billable requirement of 1,600 hours

Lewis Brisbois is not accepting search firm submissions for this position.

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Minimum Salary

USD $75,000.00/Yr.

Maximum Salary

USD $85,000.00/Yr.

About the Company

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Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Our national practice is sophisticated, multi-faceted and well-versed in current legal trends, while our individual state practices provide vast resources and knowledge of procedural and legal nuances. Lewis Brisbois offers legal practice in more than 35 specialties, and a multitude of sub-specialties associated with each practice area. Our attorneys have broad knowledge, expertise, and sensitivity to their clients’ unique needs. Through interaction among its practice groups, Lewis Brisbois provides a wide range of legal services to each client with a continuity of representation over multiple disciplines. We have built longstanding relationships with corporate and institutional clients based on our ability to provide comprehensive service on a national scale.

At Lewis Brisbois, diversity is an integral part of our firm culture and our daily life. We accomplish diversity not by committee or initiative, but through the true and committed practice of hiring the best people for the job and consistently rewarding excellence. The success of these policies is reflected in the fact that Lewis Brisbois has repeatedly received national recognition for its commitment to embracing diversity. Lewis Brisbois is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse group of talented lawyers and staff, and demonstrates that commitment through non-discriminatory hiring, retention and promotion policies. The diversity of the firm’s client base is matched by the diversity of our attorneys.

With offices from Los Angeles to New York, our attorneys reflect the communities in which they live. The firm’s culture has fostered a diverse group of professionals committed to promoting the best interests of our clients, our communities and the legal profession. We are committed to supporting diversity through new and ongoing relationships with minority and women-owned businesses.

Lewis Brisbois is known for its commitment to principled advocacy, an unflinching work ethic, and unyielding recognition of our duty to provide the highest level of service to our clients, who choose us because we take the time to understand their business interests and philosophies. We have developed sophisticated proprietary risk evaluation and litigation management processes that many of our clients have incorporated into their business practices, and we help them manage and defend claims and litigation. As a result, they are avoiding and reducing losses that impact their bottom line.

Our practice includes pre-suit counseling and problem solving based on a structured and accurate analysis of likely outcome. We know our clients’ objectives are often best served by a pre-suit resolution, and we are often judged by the advice and counsel we provide toward that end. However, when trial is the answer and in the client’s best interest, no law firm in this country understands and better executes a trial strategy than Lewis Brisbois. We are truly client driven and result oriented.

COMPANY SIZE
1,500 to 1,999 employees
INDUSTRY
Legal Services
FOUNDED
1979
WEBSITE
http://lewisbrisbois.com/