Senior Litigation Paralegal — eDiscovery & Strategy

Starbucks Corp.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Paid time off

Tuition coverage via Starbucks College

401(k) with employer match

Bean Stock equity program

Job summary

Starbucks Coffee Company seeks a senior paralegal to join the Litigation team in Seattle, supporting a broad portfolio of complex matters from intake to resolution. The role emphasizes end-to-end matter management, discovery, and collaboration with attorneys, outside counsel, and business partners.

The ideal candidate has substantial eDiscovery experience, strong project management skills, and the ability to move multiple matters forward independently.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of litigation paralegal, litigation-support, legal operations, or comparable case-management experience in a law firm, corporate legal department, or similar environment.
• Significant experience supporting complex litigation and independently managing multiple matters and deadlines.
• Substantial hands-on eDiscovery experience, including legal holds, custodian identification and interviews, ESI preservation and collection, document review, quality control, and productions.
• Experience supporting sophisticated matters such as general or product liability litigation, consumer class actions, discrimination or accessibility matters, intellectual property litigation, complex commercial disputes, or securities and shareholder litigation.
• Proficiency with matter-management, legal-hold, document-management, eDiscovery, collaboration, and Microsoft Office tools; interest in applying AI and other legal technology to litigation workflows.

Responsibilities

• Manage matters end to end: Coordinate intake, case setup, calendars and deadlines, case files, trackers, budgets, status reporting, and matter closeout across a high-volume portfolio.
• Support complex litigation: Assist through fact development, discovery, motion practice, depositions, hearings, trial preparation, settlement, appeals, and other phases of litigation; organize evidence, chronologies, witness materials, and case information.
• Lead legal holds and eDiscovery: Manage legal holds, custodian and data-source identification, interviews, preservation, collection, processing, review, quality control, and production of electronically stored information in coordination with attorneys, technology and security teams, outside counsel, and discovery vendors.
• Investigate and develop facts: Gather and analyze records, conduct factual and legal research, assist with witness interviews, and prepare clear summaries and reports for attorneys and business partners.

Skills

Litigation experience

Complex litigation management

eDiscovery

Litigation domains

Matter management

Legal holds

Document management

Collaboration tools

Microsoft Office

AI in litigation workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree / Paralegal certificate

Tools

Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/Outlook)

Job description

Starbucks Coffee Company seeks a senior paralegal to join the Litigation team in Seattle, supporting a broad portfolio of complex matters from intake to resolution. The role emphasizes end-to-end matter management, discovery, and collaboration with attorneys, outside counsel, and business partners.

The ideal candidate has substantial eDiscovery experience, strong project management skills, and the ability to move multiple matters forward independently.