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PRODUCT LIABILITY PARALEGAL

A business and litigation law firm headquartered in Pittsburgh is seeking a highly motivated, experienced paralegal to provide support for all levels of attorneys in our Product Liability practice area.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Managing the lifecycle of active matters/cases and monitoring case progress.
• Timely ordering, following up, ensuring receipt, and summarizing of medical, employment, academic, tax, and insurance company records.
• Preparing general motions, pleadings, subpoenas, and other documents as requested.
• Assisting with the response to discovery requests.
• Assisting with document reviews on eDiscovery platforms.
• Organizing factual data in multi-district litigation.
• Deposition and trial preparation by way of:
• Summarizing fact and expert witness depositions,
• Identifying, compiling, researching, and analyzing information prior to preparing reports and exhibits,
• Preparing case files, binders, summaries, and other paper/electronic case materials such as witness binders, pre-trial binders, and compilation of trial exhibits,
• Coordinating and preparing witnesses (fact and expert) for testimony at trial and depositions.
• Electronic filing of pleadings such as Appearances, Answers, and all pretrial and dispositive Motions in state and federal courts.
• Logging and entering in billable time to Prolaw billing system.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:

• At least 5 years of experience supporting attorneys in complex litigation areas such as products liability, class actions, multi-district litigation, commercial litigation, and personal injury.
• Paralegal Certificate preferred.
• Experience with county, state, and federal courts, including knowledge of CM/ECF filing.
• Experience with litigation technology applications such as eDiscovery Point, Case Notebook, and Relativity.
• Experience with iManage and Prolaw a plus.

If you are interested in this position, please send your resume (in Word format) to [email protected].

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