Senior Paralegal

The Senior Paralegal will provide legal support to litigation and employment law case management at SEDAA. This role involves research, composition, editing, and proofreading of pleadings, testimonies, memoranda, correspondence, reports, and various other documents for attorneys, federal, state, and local courts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide management and support of projects and cases related to employment law, electric, gas, civil, and other types of proceedings involving Superior, Appellate and Small Claims Courts under the supervision of an attorney.
• Review for issues and facts from depositions and other case-related documents; categorize documents based upon criteria from attorney.
• Organize, prepare case documents and/or reports such as tables of authority, tables of contents, miscellaneous correspondence, reports for filing with regulatory agencies, standard pleadings, requests for production of documents, interrogatories, standard motions, requests for admissions, hearing summaries, declarations, chronology of events, trial exhibits and oversee the indexing and/or bates labeling.
• Monitor docket activity, production schedules for hearings and discovery responses to help meet all deadlines assigned by attorneys.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years of paralegal work experience.
• Master proficiency in law department software and technology.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Paralegal Certificate.
• 7+ years of paralegal work experience.
• 10 years of Legal Assistant experience.
• Ability to provide direction to others and assign tasks to clerical staff.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent client/customer focus.
• Takes initiative and works independently.
• Ability to build consensus and contribute in a team environment.
• Strong time management skills.
• Proficiency with Symantec Clearwell and kCura Relativity Responsibilities.