Senior Paralegal, Litigation

About the Role

This role is an exciting opportunity for an experienced legal professional with expertise supporting complex litigation, employment, EH&S, and eDiscovery matters. As legal technology, AI, and data-driven workflows continue to transform the legal industry, you will play an important role in supporting a broad range of legal matters and managing critical eDiscovery activities across multiple practice areas. You will work directly with attorneys, business clients, outside counsel, eDiscovery service/technology providers, and other Legal & Compliance Capability team members to manage matters throughout the lifecycle, including litigation, employment, EH&S, compliance, and regulatory-related work. This role offers the opportunity to apply matter management expertise, leverage evolving technologies, and help deliver efficient, defensible, and business-focused legal outcomes.

About Our Team

Our team is made up of transformative legal professionals who are driving excellence and maximizing value by working on a wide variety of cases and projects across the Legal & Compliance Capability. We partner closely with our businesses to manage risk, solve complex challenges, and deliver legal services in ways that create competitive advantage. Our principles drive us to challenge the status quo, experiment with new technologies and ways of working, and invest in developing our people. Team members have the opportunity to contribute across a broad range of legal matters while building deep expertise in matter support, eDiscovery, legal operations, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal support across litigation, employment, EH&S, compliance, regulatory, and other legal matters, partnering with business clients, attorneys, outside counsel, and other Legal Capability team members.
• Take primary responsibility for select legal matters, partnering directly with attorneys and outside counsel on matter strategy, witness preparation, mediation support, risk assessment, and resolution recommendations.
• Manage legal matters and associated eDiscovery activities, including data preservation, collection, data analytics, review, and attention to the needs of litigation, employment, EH&S, compliance, and regulatory and production.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders, outside counsel, and service providers to develop practical, defensible, and cost-effective approaches to eDiscovery and information management challenges.
• Conduct investigations, witness interviews, legal research, and fact analysis in support of litigation, employment, EH&S, compliance, and regulatory matters.
• Participate in and provide support for depositions, mediations, arbitrations, and trials, including preparation of exhibits, case materials, and litigation support resources.
• Apply legal technology, analytics, AI-enabled tools, and innovative workflows to improve discovery outcomes, manage risk, and increase operational efficiency.
• Experiment with and contribute to alternative and transformative work models, including the use of technology and data-driven insights to optimize legal processes.
• Apply strong critical thinking, sound judgment, a growth mindset, and a collaborative approach to effectively support complex legal matters and team objectives.

Requirements

• Experience supporting complex legal matters in a law firm or corporate legal department setting, including litigation, employment, EH&S, compliance, or regulatory matters; witness interviews; witness preparation; and support for matter strategy.
• Experience managing discovery in litigation matters, including eDiscovery tools.
• Strong project management, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, solve complex problems, and adapt to evolving technologies and ways of working.
• Interest in applying emerging technologies, analytics, and AI-enabled tools to improve legal workflows and discovery outcomes.

Qualifications (Preferred)

• 5+ years of experience supporting complex legal matters, including litigation and eDiscovery, in a law firm, corporate legal department, legal services provider, or consulting environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale or complex discovery matters involving significant data volumes and multiple stakeholders.
• Experience partnering with outside counsel, alternative legal service providers, and technology vendors.
• Proven success implementing process improvements and innovative approaches.
• Trial experience, including exhibit preparation, court filings, deposition designations, witness coordination, attendance at trial, and war room preparation.
• Experience with international arbitration and/or cross-border discovery matters.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI technologies to optimize legal workflows, enhance eDiscovery processes, and leverage data-driven insights for strategic decision-making and operational transformation within legal teams.

Pay

For this role, we anticipate paying $80,000 - $115,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes:

• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement
• Paid vacation/time off, educational assistance
• May also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy, or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

About the Company

Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics, and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe. At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.