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Litigation Paralegal - Trust, Estate and Probate

CA - Costa Mesa
Pay Rate: $75000 - $120000 per year

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Our client, a premier probate litigation law firm serving clients from around the world in courts throughout California and Texas. Our team is passionate about delivering excellence in trust, estate, probate, and conservatorship litigation, offering comprehensive support to clients navigating complex legal and emotional issues. With a client-centered approach, we prioritize achieving the best possible outcome for our clients while upholding the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, and ethics.

We are seeking an experienced Litigation Paralegal to join our OC Team in Costa Mesa!

• Draft court filings
• Draft discovery requests and responses
• Draft subpoenas to third parties
• Gather and organize client documents
• Prepare and organize document productions (both outgoing and incoming)
• Create indices of client, other party, and third-party documents
• Prepare case timelines
• Prepare exhibits for use at depositions
• Prepare trial documents, exhibits, and other related materials
• Provide trial support to attorneys
• Research rules of legal procedure and substantive law, including cite checking, Shepardizing, and Bluebooking
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications, Preferred Skills, and Experience

• Minimum 2 years experience as a paralegal in probate, trust, estate, or civil litigation
• Strong, team-oriented work habits and ethics
• Excellent judgment and decision-making skills
• Ability to independently manage multiple priorities and time effectively
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills; deadline and detail-oriented
• Ability to analyze legal documents for accuracy and completeness; strong proofreader
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, Outlook, and other legal/office software such as Smokeball , Adobe, etc.

Also important to have:

• The right candidate should be welcoming, confident, patient, and compassionate.
• Paralegal Certificate from an ABA-approved paralegal degree program
• Or Certified Paralegal or Certified Legal Assistant designation
• Bachelor's Degree a plus
• Experience in litigation is required.
• Experience as a legal assistant in the areas of probate, conservatorship litigation and administration is preferred.
• Knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, Excel, Adobe Acrobat Reader, MS Office is required.
• Knowledge of Smokeball is beneficial.

What's In It For You?

• We work hard to foster inclusivity and encourage everyone to bring their best, authentic selves to the office every day. In addition to competitive salaries and bonuses, we offer a variety of programs, reasonably flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees, including:
  • • • Company paid retirement contributions
      • Paid Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
      • Paid Basic life insurance and Short-Term Disability
      • Paid Time Off, including sick and vacation time
      • Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
      • Paid Parking
      • Discretionary, performance-based bonuses

• A Sustainable and Fulfilling Career: Every team member plays an integral role in ensuring our clients' successes, and we value people whose diligent contributions make a difference and allow us all to have meaningful, challenging, and satisfying careers that make a difference in the lives of our team, clients and communities.
• A Supportive, Collaborative Team Environment: Routinely, but at least monthly, we recognize and celebrate team member accomplishments at every level of the firm. We also welcome and reward team member contributions to improving the RMO "way through our RMO Innovates program. Regular individual and firm-wide check-ins and best practice reviews help keep us all stronger together and aware of where we stand and where we can grow.
• Work/Life Balance: Legal work is hard but rewarding, and while like any business we have production goals and sometimes have to work harder than we might plan for, firm leadership's experience in "big law shaped where we set productivity requirements to allow us to "work to live not "live to work. While we work diligently, we encourage and support our team members' lives and commitments outside of work.