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Wegman Hessler Valore, a mid-sized law firm near Cleveland, Ohio is currently seeking an experienced E-Discovery Litigation Paralegal to join their team. The firm is nationally recognized for its appellate and litigation work, serving the diverse needs of clients in Northeast Ohio and across the United States. This is an in-office position.

The E-Discovery Litigation Paralegal is responsible for providing support and assistance to attorneys in the coordination, management, and supervision of all aspects of litigation, including but not limited to handling large caseloads, preparing drafts of legal and other documents, as well as correspondence for attorney review; compile, analyze and summarize information and coordinate efforts between attorneys, clients outside legal counsel, opposing legal counsel, other parties and outside vendors.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited paralegal program (associate’s degree or relevant certification).
• Minimum of 5 years Digital Paralegal experience in a law firm preferred.
• Experience with all stages of litigation, including intake, discovery and trial in addition to preparing for and attending trials/arbitration hearings.
• Experience with MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Experience with Opus 2, Westlaw, TextMap, CaseMap, iManage (or comparable DMS), Everlaw, Trial Director preferred
• Strong time management and organizational skills
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Highly organized
• Self-motivated, professional, and pro-active
• Have an excellent customer service attitude.
• Must be available for overtime work and travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review and/or analyze routine legal documents as requested by attorneys.
• Manage large-scale discovery and e-discovery matters, including document preservation, collection and production.
• Provide hands-on operational litigation technology support, including but not limited to projects such as database creation and maintenance; importing images into databases; searching data; exporting data; reformatting and converting data; designing forms and reports; e-discovery processes; scanning, OCR and coding use.
• Organize and maintain case files using a variety of automated procedures.
• Assist with preparing attorneys and witnesses for depositions and court appearances, including without limitation the assembly of case files and evidence.
• Prepare for trials in state and federal courts, including managing trial support, creating and overseeing trial exhibits, setting up war rooms and attending trials to assist with presenting evidence as needed.
• Review and summarize depositions.
• Manage and assist with finalizing witness affidavits.
• Review documents for privilege and drafts privilege logs for attorney review.
• Perform legal and factual research.
• Interact with outside entities (i.e., courts, government agencies, expert witnesses, corporations, vendors and other law firms) to gather information or coordinate activities as needed in support of firm activities, specifically trials and arbitrations.
• Serve as the liaison between case team attorneys and support staff as needed to ensure that case-specific paralegal services meet the team's expectations.
• Meet billable goals as established by practice management.
• Work in the corporate headquarters to ensure effective and direct collaboration with the Litigation team.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• New Client Origination Bonus
• Medical, Dental & Vision
• Company-Paid Life Insurance
• Short- & Long-Term Disability
• Free Parking
• Easy Commute (offices close to I-77 at Rockside Road)
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Personal time off and paid federal holidays
• Employee appreciation events
• 401(k)
• Employee referral program