Paralegal, Corporate Litigation

Your Opportunity as the Paralegal, Corporate Litigation

Provide non-employment litigation and dispute support to our organization.Lead advanced administrative and legal support throughout all phases of the dispute resolution process, including but not limited to assisting in discovery, including e-Discovery.

Location: Orrville, OH

Work Arrangements: hybrid, 30% in office expectation

In this role you will:

Corporate Litigation and Dispute Support

• Draft, issue, and manage legal holds.

• Advanced administrative support through the maintenance of litigation files, including managing pleadings, evidence, and other documents. Create new matters and enter case details into matter management system. Update information during life of matter by updating dates, insurance and other information, diary notes, including the status of matters.

• Assist with gathering and organizing of electronically stored information and hard copy evidence from multiple data sources and detailed recording of each source.

• Work with Information Services and Records Management to ensure information subject to legal hold is preserved pursuant to applicable legal requirements as well as dispositioned properly following the conclusion of legal holds.

• Review information and other documents to assess relevancy to disputes as well as assess follow-up opportunities.

eDiscovery Support

• Assist with the identification and preservation of data subject to legal hold across all Company platforms and channels, including identification of employees on legal hold within applicable HR systems (e.g., Workday).

• Set up custodians and reviewers and place mailboxes on a legal hold; enter search term syntax for exporting.

• Update matters and custodial mailboxes, re-running search terms and exporting PST file contains for newly-searched data.

• Work with Information Services (IS) litigation support team.

Third-Party Settlement Recovery Support

• Assist with the identification and assessment of opportunities for third-party recoveries.

• Collect and organize data from business teams to complete recovery claim.

• Track third-party recovery opportunities, claims, and collections.

Insured Litigation

• Track insured litigation and assist Risk Management and Third Party Administrator with the collection of information.

The Right Place for You

We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our , and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.

What we are looking for:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree, Associate's degree, or Paralegal certificate through an accredited program

• 3 years' paralegal experience in the civil litigation field with an understanding of the civil litigation process

• 2 years' active and on-going experience with e-Discovery

• Ability and willingness to adapt to new technologies

• Ability to maintain confidentiality for highly sensitive matters

• Highly organized with ability to handle multiple matters at once

• Detail-oriented

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:

• E-Discovery certification(s)

• Experience with class action and commercial litigation

• Experience with any of the following technology platforms: Email archive (e.g., Purview/Evault) electronic billing and matter management (e.g., TyMetrix) electronic legal holds (e.g., Zapproved/Exterro)

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