Litigation Paralegal
Greenblum & Bernstein is a mid-size Intellectual Property law boutique located in Reston, VA, representing companies all over the world. They are seeking a full-time experienced litigation Paralegal to assist attorneys with various litigation matters, including document management and legal research.
Responsibilities
- Assisting attorneys with litigation matters, including document and file management such as interacting with web-based document service providers and handling document ingest from client files into the database as well as document productions during the course of the litigation; assistance in drafting pleadings and document discovery; assisting in legal research; reviewing/monitoring incoming correspondence and preparing outgoing correspondence
- Experience in patent and/or trademark federal district court litigation a plus
- Assisting attorneys with filing, docketing, and handling post grant proceedings before the USPTO
- Organizing, managing, and updating client files and pleadings, ECF filing papers in Federal Court
- Scheduling and tracking depositions and filing deadlines
- Providing administrative and back-up support to team and department for coverage and project assistance as needed
Skills
- Associates or Bachelor's degree
- Minimum 1-3 years district court litigation experience
- Excellent communication (oral and written) skills
- Organizational skills
- Ability to work in an environment with due dates
- Attention to detail
- Reliable regarding attendance
- Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint)
- Web-based document management systems
- File management
- Calendaring
- Adobe and other software
- Patent litigation experience
- Paralegal Certificate or equivalent
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