Hybrid Litigation & Practice Coordinator (San Diego)

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in San Diego seeks a Legal Practice Coordinator to provide primary legal secretarial and administrative support for litigation and transactional matters. The role coordinates filings, deadlines, proceedings, documents, and matter administration while supporting attorneys’ daily practice needs.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree plus five+ years of legal secretarial or practice coordination experience in a law firm, with strong MS Office skills,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Five or more years of legal secretarial or practice coordination experience supporting litigation attorneys in a law firm.
• Experience with court filings, litigation calendaring, and the preparation of pleadings and discovery materials; experience supporting real estate attorneys is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Draft, format, revise, and finalize pleadings, discovery materials, correspondence, and other legal documents.
• Electronically file and serve documents in state, federal, and appellate courts; follow filing rules and calendaring procedures.
• Maintain litigation calendars and track deadlines, hearings, depositions, memoranda, and other events with attorneys.
• Schedule depositions, hearings, mediations, arbitrations, meetings, and related logistics.
• Organize and maintain matter files and materials in the firm’s document management system.

Skills

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Adobe Acrobat

Legal document formatting

Electronic filing

Time entry

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

iManage

Intapp

Emburse (Chromeriver)

Aderant

Job description

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in San Diego seeks a Legal Practice Coordinator to provide primary legal secretarial and administrative support for litigation and transactional matters. The role coordinates filings, deadlines, proceedings, documents, and matter administration while supporting attorneys’ daily practice needs.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree plus five+ years of legal secretarial or practice coordination experience in a law firm, with strong MS Office skills,