• Location: Chicago, Illinois
• Type: Direct Hire
• Job #1645
• Salary: $80,000 - $90,000

Permanent Placements is seeking a Junior Litigation Paralegal in the Chicago office for an AmLaw Top 150 firm that is ranked one of Chicago’s Top Workplaces!  We are looking for someone with at least 2 years of litigation defense experience and someone who completed a certification in paralegal studies from an accredited school.  This position will be supporting the Energy practice group so experience in energy or a willingness to learn is required. This position will be hybrid and has work from home flexibility.

Position Summary:
Are you a litigation paralegal looking to expand your skill set and work in a new area of law? Are you excited about working in a fast-paced environment? Are you looking to be an integral part of a litigation team and work hand-in-hand with attorneys at all levels? Then our Junior Litigation Paralegal position might be your next career move. This role is for the litigation paralegal who is excited about working on litigation matters from start to finish in our energy group.
The Junior Litigation Paralegal is responsible for providing support and assistance to attorneys in the coordination, management, and supervision of all aspects of litigation, including but not limited to handling caseloads, prepare drafts of legal and other documents and correspondence for attorney review; compile, analyze and summarize information and coordinate efforts between attorneys, clients outside legal counsel, opposing legal counsel, other parties and outside vendors.
Essential Functions:

1. Drafts, reviews and/or analyzes routine legal documents as requested by attorneys.
2. Manage and prepare various documents relating to administrative hearings, settlements and arbitrations.
3. Provides hands-on operational litigation technology support, including but not limited to projects such as database creation and maintenance; importing images into databases; searching data; exporting data; reformatting and converting data; designing forms and reports; e-discovery processes; scanning, OCR and coding use.
4. Organizes and maintains case files using a variety of automated procedures.
5. Reviews documents for privilege and drafts privilege logs for attorney review.
6. Performs legal and factual research.
7. Interacts with outside entities (i.e., courts, government agencies, expert witnesses, corporations, vendors and other law firms) to gather information or coordinate activities as needed in support of firm activities, specifically trials and arbitrations.
8. Acts as the liaison between case team attorneys and support staff as needed to ensure that case-specific paralegal services meet the team's expectations.
9. Meet billable goals as established by practice management.

Additional Responsibilities:

1. May require overtime as needed.
2. Performs additional office support duties as assigned/requested.

Confidentiality:
Due to the nature of your employment, various documents and information, which are of confidential in nature, will come into your possession. Such documents and information must be kept confidential at all times.
Qualifications:

• Paralegals should preferably hold a valid Paralegal certification, in addition to 2 to 4 years of litigation experience.
• Experience with energy law or administrative litigation is a plus. 
• Experience: MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) is required. 
• Must have solid time management and organizational skills; high level of accuracy and attention to detail; self-motivated and pro-active; and have an excellent customer service attitude.
• Must be available for overtime work and travel as needed.