Paralegal - Irvine, United States - Providence

Providence
Providence
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Irvine, United States

2 weeks ago

Mark Lane

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Description

Description

Paralegal
_Hybrid_*:


This position will provide professional legal support to the Department of Legal Affairs ("DLA") attorneys generally and/or in a specific practice area or across practice areas.

This position will be responsible for the coordination, provision, and completion of various legal support tasks as outlined below or requested by a supervising attorney in support of Providence St.

Joseph Health's various operations within its operating footprint.


The Paralegal should enjoy a fast-paced environment and have a focus on the accurate and timely completion of legal tasks.

This position will work in two practice areas, Litigation and Labor & Employment supporting employment related litigation and will interact frequently with internal and external clients, outside counsel, third party vendors and business associates.

Providence caregivers are not simply valued - they're invaluable.

Join our team at Providence Strategic And Management Services and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect.

Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.


Essential Functions
General Paralegal Responsibilities

  • Maintains the strictest confidentiality, trustworthiness and integrity at all times.
  • Understands ABA Model rule 5.3 and how it applies to a Paralegal. Actively avoids the unauthorized practice of law.
  • Enhance own professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, review of current literature, inservice meetings, and DLAorganized CLE offerings.
  • Monitor and assist with all aspects of projects or legal matters including, but not limited to, transactions, investigations, and litigation.
  • At direction of attorney actively takes part in creating, tracking and managing ongoing matters and prioritizing the same.
  • Requests needed documentation and information from business partners at direction of attorney or inline with practice group standards.
  • Identifies issues consistent with experience such that the attorney can focus her/his attention on providing legal advice and counsel to business partners.
  • As requested, act as first line reviewer of legal invoices.
  • Become familiar with and able to independently utilize Legal Tracker, iManage and various other platforms and document management systems used by DLA.
  • May field calls from outside counsel and business partners when requested by the DLA attorney (or when said attorney is not available), as appropriate.
  • Communicate directly and through correspondence with high level internal and external customers.
  • Assemble necessary materials for meetings and presentations as needed.
  • May train new team members on systems.
  • Consistent with DLA's protocols, simple contract drafting and review.
  • Assists with drafting and managing various DLA forms and policies.
  • Compose, edit, and proofread a variety of correspondence, memos, presentations and materials, and directly handle within the assigned scope of authority, knowledge and understanding of activity.
  • Consistent with DLA's protocols, draft position statements, pleadings, subpoenas, declarations, attestations, and other legal documents as directed.
  • Participate in document review as necessary to support various legal matters.
  • As requested, review existing DLA documents/database to determine if preexisting analysis or other work product is available to address a current legal request.
  • Completes simple legal research as requested by attorney, including Internet and other forms of computerized research.
  • Assist in maintaining DLA's website to include keeping model documents and other content located therein current.
  • Assists with the collection of Providence St. Joseph Health (Providence) regional/local information as necessary for various purposes including to update/reflect any changes/revisions thereto for DLA.
  • Special Projects as assigned.

Practice Area Specific Responsibilities
Litigation

  • Assist with the factual development and analysis of cases at direction of lead attorney, including coordination with the relevant business teams, gathering, organizing, documents for review and analysis.
  • Assists with the preparation of early case assessments and preliminary task recommendations.
  • Case schedule calendaring (coordinating with an EA); docketing of deadlines.
  • Enter timely status updates in DLA's matter management system (Legal Tracker), ensure the matter record is complete and accurate, and ensure all documents are filed to the appropriate matter using DLA's document management system (iManage).
  • Assists outside counsel on matter management.
  • Assists with drafting correspondence, status updates, tender letters, and certain pleadings.
  • May assist with training new team members.
  • Assists with gathering information to facilitate and implement legal holds.
  • Assist with eDis
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