Senior Litigation Case Manager (Senior Litigation Paralegal)

SENIOR LITIGATION CASE MANAGER (Senior Litigation Paralegal)

Legal Support Services, New York or San Francisco

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is a premier law firm with market-leading practices, a global perspective, and strong New York roots. Our clients rely on us to bring a distinctively high degree of quality, intensity, and creativity to resolve complex legal challenges effectively and efficiently.

We are recruiting a Senior Litigation Case Manager to play a leadership role on large-scale, multi-jurisdictional litigations. This is not a traditional support position but rather a core operational role responsible for structuring, driving, and continuously refining how complex, budget conscious matters are managed. The successful candidate will work directly with partners, senior attorneys, clients, and vendors to ensure that matters are executed with accuracy, consistency, and efficiency. This role requires the ability to implement litigation strategies across large matter teams while ensuring accuracy and cost efficiency.

• Responsibilities include but are not limited to:Serving as the principal point of contact for logistical, operational, and case management aspects of assigned matters
• Developing and maintaining detailed action plans, tracking systems, and deadlines across multiple workflows, including:
• Court filings and briefings
• eDiscovery (collection, review, production, and tracking)
• Accuracy and timeliness of information in case management platforms
• Witness preparation
• Status reports for clients
• Anticipating and resolving delays and risks; coordinating activities across jurisdictions and teams to ensure consistency, accuracy, and value
• Assessing and improving processes to optimize resource allocation, drive efficiency, and align with client cost expectations without compromising quality, including by:
• Employing technology
• Leveraging work to lowest capable bill rate
• Mentoring and developing junior lawyers and support staff
• Managing vendor relationships, including coordination of work, performance, and cost control

Requirements:

We seek a candidate who functions as a strategic project manager. The ideal team member is someone who takes ownership of outcomes, brings structure to ambiguity, can operate with independence in a high-stakes and fast-moving environment, is comfortable engaging directly with senior stakeholders, can make judgment calls on processes, and ensures large teams remain focused and efficient.

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in litigation case management, eDiscovery, or a closely related function within a law firm or legal services environment
• Experience managing large, multi-jurisdictional litigation matters with numerous active workstreams and frequent deadlines
• Ability to lead within large teams, including influencing without formal authority and developing junior team members
• Professional level expertise with litigation software (e.g., Relativity, Opus 2) and document review workflows, including analytics and technology-assisted review
• Proactive project management skills, including process development, defining staffing needs, identifying and resolving inefficiencies, and anticipating issues before they arise
• Experience managing vendors and external partners, including coordination, performance oversight, and cost management
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex information and provide clear, actionable updates to stakeholders
• Flexibility to meet the demands of complex litigation, including travel and extended hours as needed

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other legally protected category in accordance with U.S. law.