Paralegal
Department: Legal
Office: Pittsburgh
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Description
Grant Street Group is a small, growing software company in downtown Pittsburgh. We are actively seeking a Paralegal for Software Patent Litigation.
Responsibilities:
* Researches law sources by identifying applicable statutes, judicial decisions, and codes; initiating patent and trademark searches.
* Compiles evidence and supporting information by searching records, discovery documents, transcripts, libraries, and databases;
* Prepares legal documents for attorney's approval and use by identifying forms and formats; producing text; proofreading; maintaining document control system.
* Oversees cases by managing files and documents; coordinating with support services and clients, opposing law firms, and courts; managing court docket calendar; expediting paper flow; maintaining schedules and deadlines; generating status reports, logs, and indexes
* Prepares for trial by preparing trial notebooks, exhibits, and witness files; obtaining jury list and background information
* Composes legal abstracts by summarizing deposition, arbitration, hearing, trial, and other transcripts.
* Maintains database by organizing document control; designing retrieval systems; summarizing, coding, and storing documents; updating system.
* Experience with Intellectual Property preferred.
Skills/Qualifications:
Research Skills, Analyzing Information, Dealing with Complexity, Administrative Writing Skills, Reporting Skills, Telephone Skills, Multi-tasking, Organization, Legal Administration Skills
Initially a 4 - 6 month contract (40 hours a week) that could be renewed or extended for long term contract work
For more information, visit our Web site at http://www.GrantStreet.com.
Grant Street Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, sex, religion or national origin.
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