General Litigation Attorney

Spectraforce Technologies
United States, Illinois, Chicago
Feb 13, 2025
Job Title: General Litigation Attorney Location: Chicago, IL 60602 Work Model: Fully onsite Duration: 11 months Assignment Shift/Hours: 40hours/week, M to F, 8am to 5pm CST Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Responsible for all aspects of litigation support, including collecting, organizing, and producing documents in response to all types of discovery requests including third-party subpoenas and drafting written responses to discovery requests. Job requires analytical skills to identify applicable laws and understand aspects of the client relationship. Thorough knowledge of applicable litigation principles. Perform independently a variety of relatively complex legal tasks related to miscellaneous litigation matters, including independently negotiating and responding to subpoenas, levies, garnishments, court orders and wage deduction orders in multiple jurisdictions. Understands field organizational structure and identifies key stakeholders to efficiently respond to discovery requests and third-party subpoenas. Review of documentation to determine deadlines and ensure conformity with legal requirements. Conduct independent legal research on specific issues. Communicates with clients, government agencies or officials on a regular basis to answer questions related to service of process and to collect and assemble information. Provides case management support, including monitoring and following up on case calendars, filing deadlines, and paper and electronic docket search. Knowledge of state and federal court process and e-filing. Qualifications: Must have a valid license to practice law in Illinois. Must have experience with subpoena and discovery responses, including document identification, collection, and production. A successful candidate will understand written and electronic discovery well-enough and will learn client's data map to spot problems with discovery suggestions from outside or opposing counsel and advise senior internal counsel accordingly. Must have familiarity with legal holds, document management applications (such as Everlaw, Relativity, Concordance, Nebula, etc.) and secure electronic document sharing (such as FTP sites). This role requires collaboration, confidence, insightfulness, written and oral communication and being tech-savvy. Candidate must have strong leadership, analytical abilities and judgment. Position requires exceptional organizational skills to work effectively and cooperatively with internal and external clients, management and staff and to coordinate business functions with other departments on dozens of matters simultaneously. Demonstrate professionalism and skill working in a team environment and coordinating workloads. Ability to multi-task and consistently meet aggressive and time-sensitive deadlines.