Litigation Docketing Specialist
FULLY REMOTE OPPORTUNITY
LOCATION: Sacramento, CA | Silicon Valley, CA | Orange County, CA | Los Angeles, CA | San Diego, CA | San Francisco, CA
SALARY AND BENEFITS: Base salary to $90K, commensurate with experience, plus generously paid overtime, competitive bonus structure, medical, dental, & vision benefits, great PTO, 401k match and much more!
ORGANIZATION: Top Ranking Law Firm
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Review emails received to determine docketing necessity
- Make informed decisions with regards to qualifying docket items
- Assess and stage priority of all received items
- Communicate with case teams to gather essential information
- Respond to inquiries from the litigation teams
- Perform research as necessary
- Verify applicability of deadlines
- Maintain and strive to improve processes and procedures to ensure accurate entry of calendar and docket dates
- Promote the firm’s docketing policies and procedures
- Review documents for court and filing deadlines
- Provide relevant information from the docket database, as requested by attorneys and staff
- Streamline docketing procedures, including the maintenance of rule sets in the docket database
- Calculate deadlines based on regulations and court requirements
- Monitor and ensure deadline accuracy of electronic court filings
- Liaise with attorneys and key staff to provide information about the docketing system and any changes to rules and regulations
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience preferred
- 7+ years of current CA litigation experience and 7+ years of current Federal litigation experience required
- Prior litigation paralegal or legal secretary experience; large law firm experience highly desirable
- Working knowledge of ProLaw, Compulaw or eDockets software
- Excellent research skills
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Ability to operate with minimal supervision, while complying with strict deadlines
- Ability to manage multiple priorities at once
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, with the ability to learn new software and operating systems
- Impeccable attention to detail
