Litigation Attorney

Paragon Legal; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Paragon Legal is seeking a skilled general litigation attorney to manage disputes for a leading communications platform. This fully remote role involves extensive litigation tasks and requires excellent drafting abilities and strong interpersonal skills. Ideal candidate should have experience in online communications or social media sectors.

Qualifications

• Must be a skilled drafter with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to handle a high volume of open legal matters independently.

Responsibilities

• Manage cases including pre-litigation and arbitration.
• Conduct legal research and support throughout the litigation process.
• Oversee billing and liaise with insurance providers.

Skills

Legal drafting

Interpersonal relationship skills

Independent work capability

Job description

The Position
Our client is a company that provides a popular and innovative communications platform geared towards gamers. They are in need of a skilled general litigation attorney to support their team with overflow work. This attorney will be responsible for the following tasks:

- Manage a caseload of disputes, encompassing pre-litigation demands, lawsuits, and arbitration, all without the assistance of outside counsel.
- Oversee responses to discovery requests from both domestic and international third parties.
- Offer support throughout the litigation process, spanning early case evaluation, e-discovery, fact-finding, legal research, witness preparation, motion practice, hearings, arbitration, trials, and settlements.
- Handle inquiries received through various aliases, redirecting or escalating them based on the potential litigation risk levels.
- Conduct legal research and produce memos on pertinent developments in the legal landscape within areas relevant to the client.
- Provide administrative assistance, including billing and invoicing for outside counsel, as well as liaising with insurance providers.

This candidate must be an excellent drafter, and should be able to work independently. This person must have excellent interpersonal relationship skills and should be able to work with a high volume of open matters at any given time. This client is not looking for someone who will overlawyer. The ideal candidate also has experience working at online communications or social media companies.

Our client is looking to have someone in the seat ASAP and the duration of this project is estimated to be two months with potential to extend.This project is estimated to be 40 hours/week. Candidates will be fully remote. Ideal candidates should be flexible about meeting times (most frequent touch points will be in EST and PST).

The hourly rate for this assignment is expected to be between $101 and $110. This range is an estimate; an employee’s compensation will be based on the employee’s qualifications, skillset, and relevant experience, specific client needs, project requirements, and other considerations permitted by law.

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About Paragon
Paragon is on a mission to make in-house legal practice a better experience for everyone. We provide legal departments at leading corporations with high quality, flexible legal talent to help them meet their changing workload demands. At the same time, we offer talented attorneys and other legal professionals a way to practice law outside the traditional career path, empowering them to achieve both their professional and personal goals. Our corporate clients include the nation’s top, cutting-edge technology, healthcare, consumer products companies, and more. In the last several years we have taken our strong reputation in the Bay Area and expanded to clients and candidates across the country.

At Paragon, we put people first, take pride in operating with integrity, and aspire for excellence in everything we do. Our unique attorney-led attorney development team will support you through and beyond your initial project.

Our Commitments
Equal Opportunity Employer: Paragon Legal Group LLC is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, or any other basis protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, and training. Paragon Legal makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

San Francisco Fair Chance:Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records and do not conduct background screens prior to an offer of employment.

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