Senior Paralegal (San Francisco)

O’Melveny has an immediate opening for a Senior Paralegal in our San Francisco office. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support all stages of complex legal matters with minimal oversight, including trials, investigations, and advanced case tasks.
• Serve as subject-matter expert in specialty law areas.
• Oversee all phases of discovery, including fact gathering and analysis of documents, document productions, and preparing for depositions and witness interviews.
• Maintain and organizes electronic case files to ensure case documents are easily and promptly accessible to all team members.
• Coordinate court and agency filings, including assembling motion papers and exhibits, coordinating filings of pleadings and briefs, and ensuring proper service.
• Coordinate and manage trial preparation, including creating trial notebooks, identifying and organizing exhibits, coordinating witness schedules, maintaining trial calendars, and communicating with opposing counsel and courtroom staff.
• Coordinate, review, and maintain project status tracking charts for matters, including any tasks and deliverable requirements.
• Conduct factual and legal research to support attorney projects.
• Manage and perform document searches, review, and analysis through various platforms, e.g., Relativity, Opus2.
• Performs complex cite checking and provides guidance to other team members in citation review.
• Proofread briefs and other legal documents.
• Communicate with clients, witnesses, and other outside parties as requested or approved by attorneys.
• Provide guidance, training, and facilitates work coordination for project assistants.
• Accurately records time worked on a daily basis.
• Assist with other department activities as needed and performs additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:

• 12-15 or more years’ experience performing traditional litigation paralegal functions.
• Extensive in-person trial support and experience is required.
• Proficient with computerized legal research and document retention databases for performing fact and legal research and effective management of complex evidence and case files.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite applications including Outlook, Excel, and Word.
• Advanced familiarity with manipulating pdf files in Adobe.
• Masters Relativity, Opus 2, AI, and other legal tools.
• Excellent organizational and written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with attorneys, paralegals, and business professionals.
• Experience providing guidance and support to junior paralegals and project assistants.
• The ability to work overtime and travel as needed is also required.
• A bachelor’s degree is preferred.
• A paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved program is required.
• Experience in the Intellectual Technology and Property field is preferred.

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