CONTRACT | Litigation Paralegal

Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio Company, is actively seeking a contract Litigation Paralegal to support one of our law firm clients on site in Atlanta, GA.

Start Date: ASAP once interviewed and selected

Pay Rate: $40/hour

Location: North Atlanta - Galleria

Duration: Open ended, likely at least 6 months

Responsibilities:

• Prepare depositions notices and be familiar with efiling in state and federal courts.
• Prepare subpoenas for depositions and production of documents, and notices of service in state and federal courts.
• Arrange process servers and ensure service of subpoenas and third-party complaints.
• Prepare non-party discovery requests and rule 5.2s as well as efiling in state court.
• Ensuring non-party record compliance, preparing compliance letters, making phone calls etc.
• Must be a self-starter and be able to own a file and take the initiative on ensuring tasks are completed and followed up on timely and have good organizational and tracking skills.
• Prepare discovery requests to plaintiff and rule 5.2, for state court and 5.4 in federal court.
• Prepare documents for production, including redaction and bates numbering and production of same.
• Prepare documents to be used as exhibits to motions, responses, replies, and third-party complaints.
• Review and analysis of insurance policies and other documents and redaction of premiums and other information as needed.
• Review and identify documents for expert review and produce same to experts for review.
• Prepare exhibits for use at depositions, motions, mediations, and trial.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years paralegal experience in a law firm
• Civil litigation experience required
• Familiarity with performing research tasks using web-based legal research services
• Experience working with paperless files. iManage experience a plus
• Must successfully pass a background/drug screen
• Bachelor’s degree and paralegal certificate from ABA approved program required.

LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better, and we encourage all applicants — including people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities — to join us so we can do great things together.