Paralegal - Civil Litigation/Mass Tort

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Salary: $60,000 - $80,000 per year

We are representing a well-established, national Plaintiff Litigation firm that focuses on catastrophic injury, environmental hazards, toxic torts, and more! They are seeking an experienced Paralegal to join the team in Mount Pleasant, SC.

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Opportunity to work in a collaborative working environment

• Assist attorney in all phases of discovery, including preparing discovery responses and requests (to include requests for production, interrogatories and requests for admissions), scheduling depositions, docketing, fielding client calls, and frequent written and oral communication with defense and/or co-counsel.
• Finalize and occasionally draft complaints, answers, routine notices, affidavits, motions, petitions, and summonses.
• Compile and, as requested, analyze reports for attorneys (i.e., detailing cases settled, remaining defendants in groups of cases and/or status of case investigations).
• Organize documents and client database(s) to include coding, indexing and controls numbering and history of documents produced and received.
• Assist in initial client interviews and case investigations.
• Organize files and review documents, including medical records
• File and retrieve court documents using CM/ECF on PACER.
• Create Tables of Contents and Tables of Authorities in Word.
• Draft pre-trial data, assist in the preparation of trial notebooks, exhibits and legal authorities.
• Arrange and prepare exhibits, depositions/testimony, copies, etc.
• Prepare trial subpoenas and assist in scheduling of witnesses.
• Conduct legal research on case law using WESTLAW and other appropriate law and/or medical libraries, databases, and on-line facilities

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and/or Paralegal Certificate required
• 2+ years of paralegal work experience
• Civil litigation and/or mass tort experience highly preferred
• Familiar with MS Suite
• Experience with eDiscovery platforms preferred

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