Litigation Paralegal
$120,000–$195,000 year
RemoteUnited States or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Manage eDiscovery workflows end to end across multiple matters, including issuing legal hold notices, coordinating custodian interviews, and overseeing collection, processing, review, and production. Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for eDiscovery and litigation-support vendors, tracking data volumes, reviewing invoices, and holding vendors to agreed rates. Support attorneys with case management by maintaining internal file systems, organizing pleadings, docketing key deadlines, and updating stakeholders on matter progress. Own intake for new matters and third-party legal requests, logging, triaging, and routing each to the right attorney with assembled facts and deadlines. Process and coordinate timely responses to subpoenas, summonses, preservation demands, and litigation hold requests, escalating complex or sensitive matters as needed. Build and improve systems behind the work, including intake workflows, response playbooks, matter templates, trackers, and preservation checklists.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years experience as a paralegal, legal assistant, or litigation coordinator at a law firm or in-house legal department
- Deep understanding of civil litigation matters, from inception through resolution
- Hands-on experience supporting eDiscovery processes across the EDRM lifecycle, including legal holds and document preservation, collection, processing, review, and production
- Experience working directly with eDiscovery and litigation-support vendors, including scoping statements of work, tracking budgets, and reviewing invoices
- Experience managing a high volume of concurrent matters and deadlines with strong organizational skills and exacting attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task and effectively manage competing priorities in a fast-paced startup environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to correspond directly with outside counsel, vendors, and opposing counsel and to calibrate tone for sensitive or adversarial situations
- Demonstrated discretion and sound judgment when handling confidential and privileged material
Desired Qualifications
- Paralegal certificate, associate's degree in paralegal studies, or bachelor's degree
- Direct experience with eDiscovery review platforms, legal research and docketing databases, document management systems, and legal billing or matter management software
- Experience processing subpoenas, summonses, and other third-party legal requests, including correspondence with opposing counsel and government agencies
- Demonstrated AI tool fluency, having used AI to build real workflows rather than as an occasional chatbot, and comfort learning new platforms quickly
- Experience at a high-growth technology startup
- Interest in artificial intelligence laws and regulations
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