Oversee accurate litigation calendars, track critical court deadlines, and coordinate with attorneys and legal staff to ensure compliance with California court rules.
Compensation
Hourly pay: $32.00–$40. Actual pay will depend on relevant experience, technical skills, and qualifications.
Responsibilities
Maintain the firm’s centralized litigation calendar, including hearings, trials, depositions, mediations, and filing deadlines.
Calculate and track discovery, motion, hearing, trial, and other deadlines under California procedural and court rules.
Review court orders, minute orders, notices, and filings to identify and calendar deadlines.
Monitor statutes of limitations and other critical case deadlines, escalating concerns promptly.
Coordinate with attorneys and paralegals to verify scheduling and changes.
Requirements
Nice to have: Plaintiff-side personal injury litigation
Oversee the Firm’s centralized litigation calendaring functions, managing deadlines across jurisdictions and coordinating docketing tasks.
Compensation
Compensation Range: $80,000-$110,000
Responsibilities
Serve as the designated coordinator of the department’s centralized calendaring inbox and related calendaring operations and workflows
Monitor and manage calendaring requests to ensure prompt review and distribution
Assign docketing and calendaring tasks to team members based on workload, jurisdiction, and complexity
Track calendaring requests to completion to ensure accuracy and timeliness
Oversee setup of new matters in the firm’s docketing system, ensuring triggering dates, deadlines and jurisdiction specific requirements are properly entered
We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including everything you’d expect -- medical, dental, and vision insurance; firm paid life insurance and short and long-term disability; retirement savings plan with employer profit sharing contributions, bonus programs and more.
Responsibilities
Prepare legal documents and correspondence
File documents in state and federal courts
Prepare binders for attorneys and judges
Create and save documents and emails to iManage (document management system) in accordance with firm policy
Experience with obtaining documents from online court directories
Provide administrative support to attorneys, manage pleadings, discovery, motion preparation, e-discovery, e-filing, docketing, document review, exhibit preparation, and maintain case management systems.
Compensation
The yearly salary range is between $80,000-$100,000. The actual salary offered may be above or below the identified range and will be based on a wide range of factors, including relevant skills, training, experience, including the location where the position is filled. This position is a hybrid position with two days in office and three days working from home. Exceptions to the hybrid schedule may be provided to candidates who live outside the Los Angeles area. Knowledge of CA law is required.
Responsibilities
Provide administrative support to attorneys
Work independently on pleadings, discovery, motion preparation, and e-discovery
This position supports the firm’s Trial and Litigation Group, providing administrative support for complex crisis litigation in areas like constitutional law, wildfire, civil rights, and class action litigation.
Compensation
The pay range for this position, working in our Los Angeles office is $48.08 to $54.80 per hour, depending on experience, paid semi-monthly.
Responsibilities
Draft, review and revision of documents, including correspondence, reports, pleading and memoranda
Format court pleadings according to applicable court rules
Generate TOAs and TOCs using Firm software
Perform in-person/electronic filing
Maintain calendars using tools like CompuLaw to keep attorneys abreast of upcoming deadlines
Requirements
High School Diploma
Bachelor’s degree preferred
Nice to have: appellate experience
Nice to have: knowledge of Federal and State position statement processes
The salary wage range for Boston that we expect to pay for this position is a minimum of $92,000 and a maximum of $117,000 annually. The salary wage range for San Francisco that we expect to pay for this position is a minimum of $92,000 and a maximum of $117,000 annually. The salary wage range for Palo Alto that we expect to pay for this position is a minimum of $92,000 and a maximum of $117,000 annually. The salary wage range for Washington, DC that we expect to pay for this position is a minimum of $87,000 and a maximum of $110,000 annually. The salary wage range for Orange County that we expect to pay for this position is a minimum of $87,000 and a maximum of $110,000 annually. The salary wage range for Los Angeles that we expect to pay for this position is a minimum of $87,000 and a maximum of $110,000 annually. The salary wage range for New York that we expect to pay for this position is a minimum of $92,000 and a maximum of $117,000 annually.
Responsibilities
Demonstrate proficiency with litigation docketing and calendaring
Assist with review, preparation, and electronic filing of legal documents
Monitor and manage litigation deadlines
Provide guidance on court rules and e-filing procedures
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