Litigation Services Supervising Attorney

Responsibilities

• Using Westlaw Edge, Lexis+, Courtlink, Lex Machina, and other research platforms to provide high-level legal research and analysis with respect to procedural issues across many jurisdictions.
• Serving as a resource for strategic legal analysis relating to general litigation procedure and rule interpretation, and staying updated on legal trends to ensure comprehensive and current guidance to attorneys and staff.
• Developing a repository of judicial insight, including:
• The review of transcripts to identify themes relevant to pending matters,
• The compilation of case precedent, recent decisions of interest, reversal rates, motion timing analytics, and judicial biography with notable cases and lawyer commentary,
• The tracking of attorney experience before applicable judges.
• Preparing procedural road maps in advance of major court filings to flag applicable rules and requirements, identifying areas of concern (such as preservation of confidentiality), offering relevant templates and precedent, and streamlining collaboration with all team members (including attorneys, Litigation Services, and paralegals, where appropriate) in anticipation of upcoming submissions.
• In collaboration with the Litigation Services Managing Attorney, ensuring that case deadlines are correctly calculated and calendared, overseeing and participating in court and agency filings in paper and electronic formats, adhering to individual court and judicial procedures, and ensuring that applicable deadlines are met.
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate excellence in oral and written communication skills.
• Display the ability to articulate complex court rules and calendaring issues in a comprehensible, accurate, confident, and concise manner.
• Possess well-developed and professional interpersonal skills; ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the Firm.

Requirements

• A J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school.
• CURRENT bar admission in the state of the practice office or its main jurisdiction of litigation.
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in a Litigation Services role; a minimum of three (3) years of experience as a Litigation Associate and/or as a court employee may be considered.
• A minimum of two (2) years or more of experience in a supervisory capacity, preferably.

Benefits & Additional Information

Successful candidates will not only be provided with an outstanding career opportunity and welcoming environment, but will also be provided with a generous total compensation package with bonuses awarded in recognition of both individual and firm performance. Eligible employees can participate in Latham’s comprehensive benefit program which includes:

• Healthcare, life and disability insurance
• A generous 401k plan
• At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
• Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
• Professional development programs
• Employee discounts
• Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff

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Pay Range: USD $200,000.00 - USD $230,000.00 /Yr.