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Abbott · 6 days ago

Paralegal, Commercial Litigation

Illinois, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$55K/yr - $111K/yr

4+ years exp

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. The Litigation Paralegal will perform a variety of legal activities to protect the organization's reputation and ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations, working with attorneys on complex legal matters and managing discovery for commercial litigation.

BiotechnologyEmergency MedicineGeneticsHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedicalMedical DeviceNutritionPharmaceutical

Responsibilities

Assists attorneys to resolve routine and moderately complex to complex legal matters that involve various functional areas or divisions within Abbott with minimal supervision

Independently identifies problems, performs analysis and proposes solutions to a more experienced paralegal or attorney

Possesses solid knowledge of Abbott’s businesses supported and knowledge of the broader business impact

Represents Legal Division internally to clients; and

Reviews invoices associated with payment for services, ensuring costs are reasonable, in scope of work performed and meet outside counsel billing guidelines

Independently manages discovery for commercial litigation matters, having a substantial impact to the Company, and performs all tasks timely :

Assists with initial fact investigation for potential and pending litigation

Prepares and sends out legal holds to the appropriate employees within the company and manages legal hold compliance and questionnaire responses

Schedules and attends witness interviews

Identifies relevant document and data sources, coordinates collection of company documents for discovery and other requests

Assists in deposition preparation of company witnesses by analyzing the information and determining relevancy; and

Assists counsel with trial preparation

Responds to subpoenas and requests for information with minimal supervision, including identification, collection, review and preparation of documents for production

Manages outside counsel, outside paralegals and vendors and eDiscovery vendor budget for assigned matters

Provides support on periodic and special projects

Executes core job responsibilities in a timely manner

Assigned matters generally have a significant impact on business activities and operations

Interacts across all levels of management within the Company

No direct department budget responsibility; must however operate within budget. Develops estimates for outside counsel fees for assigned legal matters with supervision from more experienced paralegals and/or attorneys

Requires discretion, independent judgment, and critical thinking

Requires strong computer, communication, writing, organizational and project management skills and ability to multitask in a demanding legal environment

Demonstrates strong leadership competencies

Qualification

Commercial litigationEDiscoveryParalegal certificateLegal researchLeadership competenciesProject managementCommunication skillsOrganizational skillsAttention to detail