Senior Litigation Paralegal

About the role

This senior, on-site position directly supports the firm's four full-time attorneys, and you will also guide and mentor one junior paralegal. This is genuine trial work rather than document review alone. The firm is gearing up for a significant federal trial anticipated in the first half of 2027, and motion practice is already in progress.

Responsibilities

• Trial support
  
  • Deliver on-site support throughout trials, hearings, and depositions.
  • Assemble trial exhibits, witness lists, and other trial materials.
  • Take charge of exhibits, line up witnesses, and run courtroom technology.
• Legal research
  
  • Carry out legal research through Westlaw, LexisNexis, and PACER.
• Case management
  
  • Stay in close contact with clients, witnesses, experts, vendors, opposing counsel, and co-counsel.
  • Keep case files current and complete, spanning pleadings, discovery documents, correspondence, expert reports, and exhibits.
  • Construct and monitor case timelines, calendars, and deadlines so that nothing is overlooked.
  • Support the attorneys in organizing and steering matters from the first day to the last.
• Supervision and quality control
  
  • Hold quality and consistency to a high standard across everything the team produces.
  • Coach and train the junior paralegal.
• Documents and court filings
  
  • Submit filings in state and federal court while observing every court rule and e-filing requirement.
  • Handle Bluebooking and cite-checking of briefs, and put together tables of contents and tables of authorities.
  • Draft, proofread, and revise legal documents such as pleadings, motions, briefs, affidavits, and sentencing memos.
  • Set up and maintain electronic document databases, keeping each file confidential and easy to locate.
• Time recording
  
  • Log your hours each day in the firm's practice management software.
• Discovery and investigation
  
  • Direct document review, often spanning sizable volumes of data.
  • Prepare memos, correspondence, charts, and research summaries.
  • Lend a hand with discovery requests, both preparing and responding, including document productions and interrogatories.

Qualifications

• Solid Bluebook and cite-checking ability, along with experience building tables of contents and tables of authorities.
• Practical litigation and trial experience that covers both preparation and execution, including motion practice support, sentencing memos, exhibit management, witness coordination, and e-filing.
• A bachelor's degree.
• First-rate proofreading, a keen eye for detail, and strong written communication.
• You turn out clean, error-free legal documents and catch slips across complex filings.
• Paralegal experience gained at a large law firm.
• Comfort backing the defense of clients who face serious criminal charges, including matters tied to sexual assault and sex trafficking.
• Familiarity with New York state and federal court filings and procedures, the Southern District of New York (SDNY) among them.
• A firm sense of ownership. You produce accurate work and do not lean on constant oversight.
• Command of Westlaw, LexisNexis, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, and legal practice management software.
• The ability to oversee and mentor a junior paralegal while sustaining high quality across every deliverable.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Composure under pressure and the ability to hit tight deadlines, including long hours through trial preparation and trial.
• Readiness to work on-site in Manhattan, with overtime, the odd weekend, and short-notice courthouse travel when called for.