senior paralegal- litigation

Starbucks Coffee Company; 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

Now Brewing - senior paralegal senior - Litigation! #tobeapartner

From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but that also brought a feeling of connection. We are known for developing extraordinary leaders who share this passion and are guided by their service to others.

As a Starbucks paralegal senior - Litigation, you will be an integral member of the Litigation team supporting a broad portfolio of complex, high-impact matters. The portfolio may include general and product liability matters, slip-and-fall and burn claims, customer-facing discrimination and accessibility matters, consumer class actions, patent and other intellectual property litigation, complex commercial and supplier disputes, securities and shareholder litigation, and other significant matters.

You will partner with Starbucks attorneys, outside counsel, business and technology teams, and discovery vendors to provide end-to-end litigation and eDiscovery support from matter intake through resolution. The successful candidate will bring substantial litigation and eDiscovery experience, sound judgment, strong project-management skills, and the ability to independently move matters forward.

As a senior paralegal senior, you will:

• 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.

We’d love to hear from people with:

• 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 competing 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 responsibly applying AI and other legal technology to litigation workflows.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and/or paralegal certificate from an accredited program
• In-house experience supporting a national or global company with a broad and active litigation docket

Benefits

• As a Starbucks partner, you (and your family) will have access to medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits.
• Partners have access to short-term and long-term disability, paid parental leave, family expansion reimbursement, paid vacation from date of hire*, sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked), eight paid holidays, and two personal days per year.
• Starbucks also offers eligible partners participation in a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, a discounted company stock program (S.I.P.), Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock), incentivized emergency savings, and financial well-being tools.
• Additionally, Starbucks offers 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, student loan management resources, and access to other educational opportunities.
• You will also have access to backup care and DACA reimbursement.
• Starbucks will comply with any applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, and in accordance with its plans and policies.
• This list is subject to change depending on collective bargaining in locations where partners have a certified bargaining representative.

If you are working in CA, CO, IL, LA, ME, MA, NE, ND or RI, you will accrue vacation up to a maximum of 120 hours (190 in CA) for roles below director and 200 hours (316 in CA) for roles at director or above. For roles in other states, you will be granted vacation time starting at 120 hours annually for roles below director and 200 hours annually for roles director and above.

The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will be based on multiple factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, and internal equity. At Starbucks, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the high end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

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Starbucks Coffee Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.

Starbucks Coffee Company is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [e-mail] or 1(888) 611-2258.