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Civil Litigation Practice Assistant

Wood Litigation, APC
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/4/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/29/2025

ABOUT THE FIRM

Wood Litigation is a small civil litigation firm in downtown San Francisco. The firm specializes in the areas of real estate, employment and commercial litigation. The firm's clients include :

  • Developers, homebuyers, home sellers and property owners;
  • Employers and departing employees in trade secret and compensation disputes;
  • Employers faced with wage, hour and misclassification claims;
  • Business owners in partnership / shareholder and commercial / contract disputes;
  • CPA firms alleged to have negligently performed tax, audit or bookkeeping services with an emphasis in defending firms alleged to have failed to identify embezzlement; and
  • Tech founders and engineers.

THE OPEN POSITION

The firm is looking to hire a litigation secretary / practice assistant to work full-time (or heavy part-time) to perform the following tasks :

  • Filing and service of court documents in state (and less so, federal) courts throughout the Bay Area;
  • Preparing pleadings, motions and discovery shells / templates;
  • Filling out court forms;
  • Proofreading documents in advance of filing / service;
  • Preparing and maintaining proofs of service;
  • Arranging for service of documents by overnight mail and / or through messengers / process servers;
  • Processing documents received and calendaring deadlines;
  • Drafting and sending correspondence, letters, and email;
  • Communicating with court staff, clients, witnesses;
  • Responding to phone messages and interviewing potential new clients;.
  • Onboarding new clients;
  • Managing documents;
  • Using the firm's ediscovery software to receive and produce documents;
  • Maintaining the office, i.e. ordering supplies, arranging for building maintenance.
  • This is an in-office position in downtown San Francisco. There is some flexibility with regard to the schedule.

    QUALIFICATIONS

    The ideal candidate has been serving as a civil litigation secretary / practice assistant doing many of the above tasks for five years. As far as technical skills are concerned, candidates should have expert knowledge of Microsoft Office products and be digitally proficient otherwise.

    TO APPLY

    In addition to applying through this platform, consider emailing your resume to jobs@woodlitigation.com and treat the e-mail as your cover letter. In that cover e-mail, let us know where you gained your experience and what you are looking for out of your next job. Also, please let us know your compensation requirements.

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