Litigation Manager jobs in Garden Grove, CA

Litigation Manager

Litigation Full-Time

In-person, hybrid, or remote available

Are you passionate about social justice and genuinely driven by helping others? Do you have extensive paralegal and leadership experience? Do you wish to use your expertise helping other paralegals and legal assistants learn and grow? If so, you might be a great fit for our team. The Law Offices of Scott Warmuth is hiring a Litigation Manager for our Litigation Team, which supports our Personal Injury and Employment Law departments.

About Us

The Law Offices of Scott Warmuth is committed to five core values: loyalty, integrity, lifelong learning, critical thinking, and collective accountability. We strive to be known for having the best customer service, high character staff, and servant leadership. These values and vision, combined with our decades of experience, have enabled our law firm to achieve great results on behalf of our clients. We are proud of our organization, and our success is due to the dedication and talent of our attorneys and staff. We attract our outstanding team by providing interesting work, a supportive and collegial work environment, personal satisfaction, competitive compensation and benefits, and a pathway for professional development and growth. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Job Description

Our Litigation Manager plays a vital role to the Employment Law and Personal Injury Departments. The role is twofold: You will oversee our Litigation Team, supporting, managing, and training paralegals and other legal support staff. You will also have the opportunity to directly apply your paralegal expertise as the Senior Paralegal assigned to high-value cases. Our clients have sustained life-changing injuries or have faced awful mistreatment including harassment, discrimination, retaliation, sexual assaults, sexual batteries, failure to accommodate, wrongful discharge, and other types of illegal mistreatment. They come to us for legal representation, support, and understanding. Your role is to lead the litigation team that provides outstanding support to our attorneys and excellent service to our clients. The department operates in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

Job Qualifications

• Education: California Certified Paralegal
• Experience: 8 years Civil Litigation experience required; Employment Law and/or Personal Injury experience preferred
• Extensive litigation and trial experience
• Strong leadership, management, and training experience
• Language: English, Spanish strongly preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail
• Analytical and critical thinker
• Excellent hands-on computer skills
• Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work well independently and within a team
• Ability to thrive under pressure, meet deadlines, and maintain accurate files
• Ability to function with a high level of patience, tact, and diplomacy in handling negative or challenging situations
• Familiarity with case management software, Microsoft Word Suite, Adobe Pro, and other legal software required; experience with Smart Advocate preferred

• Familiarity with California Discovery Act and all deadlines and dates

Job Responsibilities

• Manage, train, and oversee team paralegals and other litigation support staff

• Create team and individual Key Performance Indicators for both personal injury and employment law litigation teams
• Evaluate the efficiency of systems and procedures, identify improvements, and establish new practices to meet and exceed organizational objectives
• Identify staffing needs for the personal injury and employment litigation support teams and participate in the recruiting process
• Prepare and execute initial training schedules/plans for litigation support team new hires
• Monitor litigation support team member compliance with firm policies, including attendance, dress codes, work hours, etc.
• Ensure paralegals’ compliance with civil litigation deadlines and internal processes
• Ensure case file managers and legal assistants’ compliance with internal processes
• Serve as liaison between attorneys and support team to address completion of tasks, training needs, or any other performance concerns
• Serve as lead litigation paralegal for high value cases and those preparing for trial
• Oversee Litigation Calendar Clerk who manages personal injury and employment law litigation calendar
• Engage in WarmuthLaw Leadership Training with Executive Coach
• Run and distribute weekly litigation reports
• Assignment of team members to cases
• Assign secondary attorneys/paralegals for cases transferring to litigation
• Assist attorneys with assigning tasks to paralegals

• Maintain thorough knowledge of the California Discovery Act, including all aspects of discovery and law and motion
• Edit and finalize litigation documents
• Maintain filing systems and internal case database (Smart Advocate)
• Respond to emails and correspondence on behalf of the attorneys
• Plan, coordinate, and ensure timelines for department’s legal matters including materials for meetings, conference calls and follow-up items
• Ability to organize and prioritize tasks and complete them under time constraints
• Drafting of court documents and preparation of court filings
• Other duties may be assigned in addition to those listed

About This Position

• Job Type: Full-time; in-office, fully remote, or hybrid available
• In-Office Job Location: City of Industry, CA or San Gabriel, CA
• Competitive salary will be commensurate with experience and education.
• We offer a professional work environment and a benefits package that includes a 401(k), 401(k) employer match, health, dental, and vision insurance, paid holidays, and paid vacation