Legal Specialist, Litigation
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of litigation support experience as a Paralegal or Legal Assistant at a law firm or in-house legal department.
Preferred qualifications:
- 8 years of relevant work experience as a Paralegal or Legal Specialist, including experience with electronic discovery, Internet technology, antitrust matters, regulatory investigations and general litigation.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with an ability to review and organize numerous documents in legal matters.
- Excellent people management and communication skills.
About the job
Google's legal department is at the center of an information law revolution, and you're at its core. As a Legal Assistant, you are driving behind the success of your Legal team, ready to create and improve processes, maintain records, conduct legal research and coordinate communications across the team. As you closely support your team, you may find yourself working with multiple groups within the Legal Department, internal clients across Google, and external parties. You're an independent thinker who isn't afraid to ask questions, and you're organized in a way that never overlooks the details.
20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $102,000-$145,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Assist Litigation Counsel in managing document preservation, collection, review and production procedures, including evaluating new technologies and vendors.
- Work collaboratively with the Litigation and Discovery teams, as well as other groups at Google, to ensure our internal systems work well with our discovery procedures.
- Supervise document retrieval and document production, coordinating with external legal counsel in litigation matters.
- Coordinate with external legal counsel on specific assignments, review preliminary advice and provide internal recommendations.
- Support special project work, including data analytics and tooling development.
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