Paralegal - Tax

The role

DLA Piper seeks a Paralegal - Tax Controversy & Salt with 1 year of experience to join their Tax practice in New York. This role supports attorneys by performing substantive case duties, drafting documents, and coordinating with various parties.

What you'll do

• Prepare drafts of legal and other documents and correspondence for attorney review
• Compile, analyze, and summarize information
• Coordinate efforts between attorneys, clients, outside legal counsel, opposing legal counsel, other parties, and outside vendors
• Drafts simple pleadings and/or assists attorneys with major motions and filings
• Performs cite-checking, fact-checking, and Blue Booking of legal memoranda and Shepardizing cases
• Organizes all necessary documents for witness interviews, depositions, hearings, trials or arbitrations
• Reviews, organizes and maintains document databases for case tracking, discovery and document productions
• Utilizes legal software such as Relativity and litigation technology including eDiscovery and data rooms
• eFiles documents in State and Federal Courts and coordinates service of documents
• Locates and reviews information applicable to a particular case, person or subject via online research or document reviews
• Assists in the preparation of pretrial motions, trail binders, trial exhibits, etc
• Assist attorneys at depositions, hearings, trials or arbitrations
• Manage data rooms and matter files

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