Trial Technical Specialist

Job Description

At K&L Gates, we are looking for smart, imaginative and hard-working people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas to join us. Perhaps our search for talented visionaries and your search for important and impactful work lead to the same place.

K&L Gates seeks a Litigation Paralegal with profound trial experience to join the Pittsburgh office. The Trial Litigation Paralegal assists lawyers, performing a variety of data management functions and trial preparation and support tasks. The individual holding this position is responsible for building, updating, and maintaining trial databases in addition to presenting exhibits, videos, and demonstratives in trial seamlessly to enhance lawyers’ presentations and improve jurors’ understanding. The candidate will have significant proven litigation experience and has demonstrated the ability to work under pressure and handle the high-stress environment of trial while being flexible, accurate, calm and professional. This role will involve traveling to the relevant jurisdiction for court proceedings as needed.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS
Supervising partners, practice group chairs, lawyers, Director of Administration, Firmwide Director of Paralegals, Paralegal Manager, Practice Application and Solution Services Manager, paralegals, and external clients

ESSENTIAL DUTIES
• Leverage experience as litigation paralegal to support and advise trial teams as they prepare for and litigate matters up to and through trial and/or final hearing
• Provide litigation support, case analysis, exhibit tracking, and assist with managing witnesses throughout trials, mediations, arbitrations, focus groups, conferences, and other similar events in various jurisdictions

• Assist with creating and presenting PowerPoint demonstratives and summary exhibits for trials, mediations, arbitrations, focus groups, conferences, and other similar events
• Review, revise, process deposition designations, objections, and counters to coordinate exchange with other parties; accurately prepare and refine video clips for trial including: editing, synchronizing when necessary, exporting, delivery and/or play-back of finalized video clips in court-compatible formats; collaborate with trial teams to adjust clips based on evolving rulings and objections; troubleshoot technical issues during clip creation and during trial presentation

• Build, inventory, and present databases of trial exhibits, demonstratives, and deposition designations
• Facilitate logistics, pre-recording, and editing of presentations for virtual focus groups
• Build and operate equipment setup for trials, mediations, arbitrations, focus groups, conferences, and other similar events

• Traveling as necessary to support trial teams

• Assist with scheduling of projects requiring equipment rentals and trial presentation specialists

• Comfortable and conversant with litigation support tools (Nuix Discover, Relativity, Opus2, etc.)