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Litigation Paralegal

  • Washington, D.C. (Washington County)
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • Legal

Job description



Join our Core Business Services (CBS) team and you will help support the important business enablement functions that keep our organization running strong. As a CBS professional, you will work across teams to provide the knowledge, resources and tools that help EY deliver exceptional quality service to our clients, win in the marketplace and support EY's growth and profitability. Major teams within CBS include Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Enterprise Support Services, Brand Marketing and Communications, Business Development, Knowledge and Risk Management.

Join our Legal team and you will help provide legal advice to mitigate our business risk as we achieve our commercial goals in a complex environment.

With so many offerings, you have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning. That's how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. Sound interesting? Well this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Job Summary:

The Litigation Paralegal is responsible for assisting General Counsel's Office (GCO) attorneys, auditors and outside counsel with case management in the firm's more complex litigation and in its response to government regulatory investigations.

Key Responsibilities:
·  Review document production requests, determining scope and identifying required resources, and confer with lead attorney on most efficient approach to comply within all parameters and deadlines given
·  Draft, produce and disseminate communications to practice offices and records centers for the preservation and collection of evidence, both hard copy originals and electronic files as appropriate, in response to document requests, government regulatory inquiries and subpoenas
·  Maintain wide variety of contact with the firm's audit and tax professionals and track their responses to preservation and collection requests from the legal department; maintain appropriate communications with law firms retained to represent the firm
·  Review files gathered prior to production for attorney-client privilege as well as completeness and specifically in their responsiveness to request
·  Coordinate copy, scanning, digesting and print projects with vendors, including preparing purchase orders and confidentiality agreements and logistical coordination, which cannot be done in-house; quality review completed projects
·  Maintain detailed indexes and diaries of productions, manage deposition and trial testimony, as well as digest, abstract and index transcripts
·  Oversee and assist with creation and maintenance of case and other legal databases; collect and/or identify data for input into legal databases such as deposition and trial testimony
·  Assist attorneys in interviewing and preparing witnesses for depositions
·  May conduct legal and other factual research as needed
·  May assist attorneys in the drafting of legal documents
To qualify, candidates must have:
·  Strong organizational and time management skills
·  Excellent written and verbal communication skills
·  Ability to oversee the work of other team members such as Paralegals, Litigation Support Analysts and other clerical staff
·  Self-starter; highly motivated and ambitious
·  Excellent critical thinking skills and analytical skills
·  Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
·  Bachelor's degree
·  Approximately 3-6 plus years of litigation experience

EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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