Litigation ParalegalNew$120K–$195K

Perplexity
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The opportunity

Perplexity AI is looking for a highly organized and resourceful Litigation Paralegal to serve as the operational backbone of a fast-moving, high-stakes litigation docket, with a particular focus on eDiscovery and related processes. This role reports to the Senior Counsel,…

What you'll do

  • Manage eDiscovery workflows end to end across multiple matters, including: issuing and tracking legal hold notices, maintaining custodian lists and acknowledgments, coordinating custodian interviews, and overseeing collection, processing, review, and production.

  • Serve as day-to-day point of contact for eDiscovery and litigation-support: vendors, including scoping engagements and statements of work, tracking data volumes and hosting costs, reviewing invoices, and holding vendors to agreed rates and service levels.

  • Support attorneys with case management, including maintaining internal file: management systems, organizing case files and pleadings, docketing and tracking key deadlines and hearing dates, and updating internal stakeholders on matter progress.

  • Own intake for new matters and third-party legal requests, including logging,: triaging, and routing each matter to the right attorney with a clear summary of the claim, the requester, the matter type, and any immediate deadlines.

  • Process and coordinate timely, accurate responses to subpoenas, summonses,: preservation demands, litigation hold requests, and other third-party legal requests, working from templates and escalation protocols and escalating complex or sensitive matters as needed.

  • Help manage outside counsel relationships and billing records, including: matter budgets, accrual tracking, invoice review against Outside Counsel Guidelines, and matter-management hygiene in our billing systems.

What they're looking for

  • Build and improve the systems behind the work, including intake workflows,: response playbooks, matter templates, trackers, escalation paths, and preservation checklists, so that recurring problems are solved structurally rather than absorbed by heroics.
  • Support broader litigation and legal-operations projects, including tool: implementations, vendor evaluations, and policy rollouts, and assist as needed with other organizational and administrative tasks.
  • + years experience as a paralegal, legal assistant, or litigation coordinator: at a law firm or in-house legal department
  • Deep understanding of civil litigation matters, from inception through resolution