Litigation Case Manager

Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

401K matching

Job summary

Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice LLC is seeking an experienced Litigation Case Manager in Missouri to oversee a busy litigation desk. The role requires coordinating discovery, deadlines, and stakeholder communications to ensure matters are completed efficiently.

The candidate should have 5–10 years of litigation experience, be highly organized, proactive, and uphold firm and client confidentiality. Collaboration across teams and executive support for the litigation group are essential.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of litigation experience.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Commitment to maintaining firm and client confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Manage high-volume email correspondence from clients, attorneys, and staff.
• Oversee heavy caseload with multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Maintain regular client communication with status updates and follow-ups.
• Monitor dockets, calendars, deadlines, hearings, and discovery dates.
• Track outstanding tasks, attorney requests, client deliverables, and upcoming deadlines.
• Coordinate discovery, depositions, hearings, mediations, and other events.

Skills

Litigation

Case management

Calendar management

Client communication

Tools

Microsoft Office

Document management

Job description

Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice LLC, a litigation defense firm with over 200 employees, is seeking an experienced Litigation Case Manager. The successful Litigation Case Manager will have 5-10 years of litigation experience and be organized, responsive, proactive, accountable, and client-focused. This individual must be able to manage a busy litigation practice, understand what is outstanding and what is coming next, and ensure matters are consistently followed through to completion. The ability to collaborate effectively across teams and provide executive support to a busy litigation team is essential for success in this role.

All candidates must understand the importance of maintaining firm and client confidentiality.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate high-volume email correspondence, ensuring messages are reviewed, routed, addressed, and followed through to completion.
• Manage a heavy caseload/high-volume litigation desk with multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Maintain regular client communication, including status updates, document requests, scheduling, and follow-up.
• Monitor litigation dockets, calendars, deadlines, hearings, depositions, discovery dates, and other case events.
• Track outstanding assignments, attorney requests, client deliverables, discovery obligations, and upcoming deadlines.
• Review incoming correspondence, pleadings, and notices for deadlines and required action.
• Proactively follow up with attorneys, clients, staff, experts, vendors, and other parties.
• Coordinate discovery, depositions, hearings, mediations, expert activities, and other litigation events.
• Maintain organized and accurate case files and matter information.
• Escalate urgent deadlines, unresolved issues, and potential problems to the responsible attorney.
• Close the loop on outstanding requests and assignments and anticipate upcoming case needs.

Baker Sterchi offers competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.

• medical
• dental
• vision
• basic life insurance
• voluntary life insurance
• long-term disability insurance
• 401K matching

Committed to promoting diversity within our organization and the legal community, we encourage candidates from all backgrounds.

About Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice LLC

Founded in 1982, Baker Sterchi is a civil defense litigation and trial law firm with offices in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Washington, Oregon and Wisconsin. The firm provides comprehensive legal services across a broad range of practice areas, including commercial and business litigation, construction, employment and labor, insurance coverage and defense, law enforcement and civil rights, government liability, medical malpractice, premises liability, product liability, professional and management liability, trial practice and consulting, and transportation litigation. With a team of attorneys who bring decades of courtroom experience, Baker Sterchi is widely recognized for its trial skills and commitment to client service. For more information, visit www.bakersterchi.com.