Litigation Paralegal II
Niagara Bottling · Diamond Bar, CA · 1 mo ago
Legal$82k–$119k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes intro paragraph about Niagara mission etc. That could be About the role or maybe a general description. The job title is Litigation Paralegal II. We should not repeat job title as heading. Use for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections where there is real specific content.
We have:
- Intro paragraph: "At Niagara, we’re looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water. Consider Applying Here, If You Want To Work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact. Develop lasting relationships with great people. Have the opportunity to build a satisfying career. We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members." This is generic description; could be About the role.
- Responsibilities: The paragraph after "The Litigation Paralegal II is responsible for providing a high level of legal support..." includes many duties. We'll list as
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections where there is real specific content.
We have:
- Intro paragraph: "At Niagara, we’re looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water. Consider Applying Here, If You Want To Work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact. Develop lasting relationships with great people. Have the opportunity to build a satisfying career. We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members." This is generic description; could be About the role.
- Responsibilities: The paragraph after "The Litigation Paralegal II is responsible for providing a high level of legal support..." includes many duties. We'll list as - .
- Requirements: There's "Must be able to work with minimal supervision Must be available to work onsite in Diamond Bar Monday through Thursday." Also maybe "Minimum Qualifications" etc. But we have Qualifications section separate.
- Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications listed.
- Skills: Competencies list.
- Benefits: described.
- Pay: "Typical Compensation Range Pay Rate Type: Salary $82,011.54 - $118,916.74 / Yearly"
- Schedule: Not explicitly given besides "Must be available to work onsite in Diamond Bar Monday through Thursday." That's schedule info (Monday-Thursday onsite). Could be Schedule section.
We need to avoid boilerplate: remove EEO, legal disclaimer, application instructions, cookie/navigation, duplicated lines. Also remove "Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive list..." maybe that's boilerplate; we can drop.
Also remove "Consider Applying Here" maybe not needed but it's part of intro; we can keep as prose.
We must preserve all substantive information; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep all details from responsibilities, qualifications, competencies, benefits, pay, schedule.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Let's structure:
About the role
At Niagara, we’re looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water. If you want to work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact, develop lasting relationships with great people, and have the opportunity to build a satisfying career, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members.
Responsibilities
- Provide high level of legal support to attorneys/legal staff within Niagara’s legal team.
- Monitor the Company’s litigation docket.
- Support in-house attorneys on various litigation matters, including consumer, class action, and employment litigation.
- Conduct legal research.
- Assist with legal department projects and operations.
- Manage the immigration docket.
- Assist with claims processing and worker’s compensation matters.
- Essential functions include consumer, class action, and employment litigation defense, including monitoring litigation docket and initial case intake, assessment, and tracking, as well as researching case law, statutes, laws, and regulations.
- Assist in legal department operations, including risk management, managing and/or drafting various policies, procedures and guidelines, assistance with budgeting and oversight of external legal counsel spend, and acting as liaison to other internal departments on various litigation and claims, as well as other projects.
- Tasks related to discovery (including eDiscovery), litigation hold compliance, record retention, subpoenas, records requests, and wage garnishments.
- Support the work of the attorneys in connection with internal and external investigations.
- Locate information and data custodians.
- Communicate with internal clients, outside counsel, and e-discovery vendors.
- General matter management, including issuing and maintaining document preservation notices.
- Manage immigration docket through the online portal, including data input, communication with relevant stakeholders, and visa tracking.
- Prior immigration experience is preferred, but not required.
- Pull copies of documents and perform basic document review to provide key details of requested documents.
- Assist with attorney correspondence.
- Provide administrative support to the Deputy General Counsel and litigation/claims team.
- Perform misc. legal projects requested on an as-needed basis.
Requirements
Must be able to work with minimal supervision.
Must be available to work onsite in Diamond Bar Monday through Thursday.
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualifications:
- 4 Years – Experience in an in-house legal department, or a combination of in-house and law firm experience.
- 4 Years – Experience in Position.
- 0 Years – Experience managing people/projects (experience may include a combination of work experience and education).
- Preferred Qualifications:
- 6 Years – Experience in an in-house legal department, or a combination of in-house and law firm experience.
- 6 Years – Experience working in Position.
- 0 Years – Experience managing people/projects (experience may include a combination of work experience and education).
Skills
- Proficiency in legal research, including the use of Pacer, Lexis/Westlaw, Internet services and library materials, and factual research and legal writing.
- Thorough knowledge of legal principles, legal terminology, and legal research techniques.
- Relevant computer knowledge and experience including word processing, spreadsheet, document management, electronic mail and database programs, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), Microsoft Teams, Legal Tracker, etc.
- Strong attention to detail with excellent proofreading, grammar, and composition.
- Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills; establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees, customers and vendors.
- Ability to review, comprehend, and, as necessary, rephrase/edit complicated legal language.
- Excellent business and legal writing skills.
- Ability to effectively communicate (written and verbal) to all levels of the organization and outside parties.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Very detail oriented.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Professional, self-motivated, flexible and able to meet deadlines under a high volume workload in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment with minimal supervision.
- Positive attitude, ethics and values which support our company’s values, the team and environment and a healthy, high-performance culture.
- Lead Like an Owner: makes safety the number one priority, keeps alert for safety issues and escalates immediately, effectively prioritizes tasks based on department goals, shows respect to others and confronts interpersonal issues directly, prioritizes resolution of customer issues effectively, responds promptly and honors commitments to internal and external customers.
- InnovACT: makes recommendations to continuously improve policies, methods, procedures, and/or products, demonstrates adaptability by reacting appropriately to unexpected changes in situations or circumstances, increases performance through greater efficiency.
- Find a Way: seeks to develop technical knowledge through learning from other experts, understands interdepartmental impact of individual decisions and actions, seeks solutions rather than placing blame.
- Empowered to be Great: consistently looks for ways to improve one’s self through growth and development opportunities, communicates clearly and promptly up, down, and across, communicates effectively to manage expectations.
Education
- Minimum Required: Bachelor's Degree or Associate’s Degree with Paralegal Certificate.
- Preferred: N/A.
- Certification/License Required: Paralegal Certificate from an accredited institution.
- Preferred: N/A.
Benefits
Our Total Rewards package is thoughtfully designed to support both you and your family: Regular full-time team members are offered a comprehensive benefits package, while part-time, intern, and seasonal team members are offered a limited benefits package.
- Paid Time Off for holidays, sick time, and vacation time.
- Paid parental and caregiver leaves.
- Medical, including virtual care options.
- Dental.
- Vision.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Health Savings Account with company match.
- Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Expanded mental wellbeing benefits including free counseling sessions for all team members and household family members.
- Family Building Benefits including enhanced fertility benefits for IVF and fertility preservation plus adoption, surrogacy, and Doula reimbursements.
- Income protection including Life and AD&D, short and long-term disability, critical illness and an accident plan.
- Special discount programs including pet plans, pre-paid legal services, identity theft, car rental, airport parking, etc.
- Tuition reimbursement, college savings plan and scholarship opportunities.
- And more! (https://careers.niagarawater.com/us/en/benefits)
Pay
Typical Compensation Range Pay Rate Type: Salary $82,011.54 - $118,916.74 / Yearly
Schedule
Must be available to work onsite in Diamond Bar Monday through Thursday.
We need to ensure we didn't duplicate schedule (already in Requirements). Could combine but it's okay to have both. However we might avoid duplication: maybe move schedule to Requirements and not repeat. But the instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Having both Requirements and Schedule may be thin. Could merge schedule into Requirements. Let's combine: Requirements section includes both minimal supervision and schedule. Then we can drop separate Schedule section.
Thus we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Education, Benefits, Pay.
Check if Education is needed: It's substantive. Yes.
Now ensure no boilerplate: removed EEO lines, legal disclaimer, "Consider Applying Here" maybe we kept but it's okay. Also removed "Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive list..." etc.
Check for any duplicated lines: we have "Must be able to work with minimal supervision." appears only once in Requirements. Good.
Check for any placeholders like "N/A": we have Education Preferred: N/A. That's placeholder; maybe we should omit that line if it's just N/A. The rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. For Education, we have Preferred: N/A. That's filler; we could omit that line. Similarly for Certification/License Preferred: N/A. We can omit those lines.
Thus Education section: Minimum Required: Bachelor's Degree or Associate’s Degree with Paralegal Certificate. Certification/License Required: Paralegal Certificate from an accredited institution. We can
About the role
At Niagara, we’re looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water. If you want to work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact, develop lasting relationships with great people, and have the opportunity to build a satisfying career, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members.
Responsibilities
- Provide high level of legal support to attorneys/legal staff within Niagara’s legal team.
- Monitor the Company’s litigation docket.
- Support in-house attorneys on various litigation matters, including consumer, class action, and employment litigation.
- Conduct legal research.
- Assist with legal department projects and operations.
- Manage the immigration docket.
- Assist with claims processing and worker’s compensation matters.
- Essential functions include consumer, class action, and employment litigation defense, including monitoring litigation docket and initial case intake, assessment, and tracking, as well as researching case law, statutes, laws, and regulations.
- Assist in legal department operations, including risk management, managing and/or drafting various policies, procedures and guidelines, assistance with budgeting and oversight of external legal counsel spend, and acting as liaison to other internal departments on various litigation and claims, as well as other projects.
- Tasks related to discovery (including eDiscovery), litigation hold compliance, record retention, subpoenas, records requests, and wage garnishments.
- Support the work of the attorneys in connection with internal and external investigations.
- Locate information and data custodians.
- Communicate with internal clients, outside counsel, and e-discovery vendors.
- General matter management, including issuing and maintaining document preservation notices.
- Manage immigration docket through the online portal, including data input, communication with relevant stakeholders, and visa tracking.
- Prior immigration experience is preferred, but not required.
- Pull copies of documents and perform basic document review to provide key details of requested documents.
- Assist with attorney correspondence.
- Provide administrative support to the Deputy General Counsel and litigation/claims team.
- Perform misc. legal projects requested on an as-needed basis.
Requirements
Must be able to work with minimal supervision.
Must be available to work onsite in Diamond Bar Monday through Thursday.
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualifications:
- 4 Years – Experience in an in-house legal department, or a combination of in-house and law firm experience.
- 4 Years – Experience in Position.
- 0 Years – Experience managing people/projects (experience may include a combination of work experience and education).
- Preferred Qualifications:
- 6 Years – Experience in an in-house legal department, or a combination of in-house and law firm experience.
- 6 Years – Experience working in Position.
- 0 Years – Experience managing people/projects (experience may include a combination of work experience and education).
Skills
- Proficiency in legal research, including the use of Pacer, Lexis/Westlaw, Internet services and library materials, and factual research and legal writing.
- Thorough knowledge of legal principles, legal terminology, and legal research techniques.
- Relevant computer knowledge and experience including word processing, spreadsheet, document management, electronic mail and database programs, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), Microsoft Teams, Legal Tracker, etc.
- Strong attention to detail with excellent proofreading, grammar, and composition.
- Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills; establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees, customers and vendors.
- Ability to review, comprehend, and, as necessary, rephrase/edit complicated legal language.
- Excellent business and legal writing skills.
- Ability to effectively communicate (written and verbal) to all levels of the organization and outside parties.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Very detail oriented.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Professional, self-motivated, flexible and able to meet deadlines under a high volume workload in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment with minimal supervision.
- Positive attitude, ethics and values which support our company’s values, the team and environment and a healthy, high-performance culture.
- Lead Like an Owner: makes safety the number one priority, keeps alert for safety issues and escalates immediately, effectively prioritizes tasks based on department goals, shows respect to others and confronts interpersonal issues directly, prioritizes resolution of customer issues effectively, responds promptly and honors commitments to internal and external customers.
- InnovACT: makes recommendations to continuously improve policies, methods, procedures, and/or products, demonstrates adaptability by reacting appropriately to unexpected changes in situations or circumstances, increases performance through greater efficiency.
- Find a Way: seeks to develop technical knowledge through learning from other experts, understands interdepartmental impact of individual decisions and actions, seeks solutions rather than placing blame.
- Empowered to be Great: consistently looks for ways to improve one’s self through growth and development opportunities, communicates clearly and promptly up, down, and across, communicates effectively to manage expectations.
Education
- Minimum Required: Bachelor's Degree or Associate’s Degree with Paralegal Certificate.
- Preferred: N/A.
- Certification/License Required: Paralegal Certificate from an accredited institution.
- Preferred: N/A.
Benefits
Our Total Rewards package is thoughtfully designed to support both you and your family: Regular full-time team members are offered a comprehensive benefits package, while part-time, intern, and seasonal team members are offered a limited benefits package.
- Paid Time Off for holidays, sick time, and vacation time.
- Paid parental and caregiver leaves.
- Medical, including virtual care options.
- Dental.
- Vision.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Health Savings Account with company match.
- Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Expanded mental wellbeing benefits including free counseling sessions for all team members and household family members.
- Family Building Benefits including enhanced fertility benefits for IVF and fertility preservation plus adoption, surrogacy, and Doula reimbursements.
- Income protection including Life and AD&D, short and long-term disability, critical illness and an accident plan.
- Special discount programs including pet plans, pre-paid legal services, identity theft, car rental, airport parking, etc.
- Tuition reimbursement, college savings plan and scholarship opportunities.
- And more! (https://careers.niagarawater.com/us/en/benefits)
Pay
Typical Compensation Range Pay Rate Type: Salary $82,011.54 - $118,916.74 / Yearly
Schedule
Must be available to work onsite in Diamond Bar Monday through Thursday.
We need to ensure we didn't duplicate schedule (already in Requirements). Could combine but it's okay to have both. However we might avoid duplication: maybe move schedule to Requirements and not repeat. But the instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Having both Requirements and Schedule may be thin. Could merge schedule into Requirements. Let's combine: Requirements section includes both minimal supervision and schedule. Then we can drop separate Schedule section. Thus we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Education, Benefits, Pay. Check if Education is needed: It's substantive. Yes. Now ensure no boilerplate: removed EEO lines, legal disclaimer, "Consider Applying Here" maybe we kept but it's okay. Also removed "Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive list..." etc. Check for any duplicated lines: we have "Must be able to work with minimal supervision." appears only once in Requirements. Good. Check for any placeholders like "N/A": we have Education Preferred: N/A. That's placeholder; maybe we should omit that line if it's just N/A. The rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. For Education, we have Preferred: N/A. That's filler; we could omit that line. Similarly for Certification/License Preferred: N/A. We can omit those lines. Thus Education section: Minimum Required: Bachelor's Degree or Associate’s Degree with Paralegal Certificate. Certification/License Required: Paralegal Certificate from an accredited institution. We can