Employment Litigation Manager/Paralegal (Legal)

General Purpose

The Employment Litigation Manager contributes to the success of PACS operations and client relations by

managing all aspects of pre-litigation and litigation cases, including ensuring high quality and expeditious

investigation and record collection efforts, preparing legal information and responses, providing support to the

client and acting as liaison between the client and outside counsel.

Essential Duties

• • Perform initial intake of cases including fact investigation and development.
• • Conduct interviews and monitor all work associated with assigned projects to ensure record collection
• efforts, case coordination efforts and work product creation meet client needs.
• • Act as liaison between client and outside counsel to facilitate case.
• • Coordinate responses to demand letters, subpoenas and discovery requests, including responsibility for
• communicating with personnel and collecting and producing responsive documentation.
• • Generate regularly scheduled client reports, status updates, and ad hoc reporting as required by project
• parameters or upon request.
• • Drafting responses to administrative case claims and charges (EEOC, DOL, DIR, CCRD) and attend
• administrative hearings and mediations.
• • Knowledge of key US employment laws such as EEO, FMLA, ADA, ADEA and California Wage
• and Hour laws desirable.
• • Monitor and support case management activity to alert General Counsel and escalate issues as needed.
• • Ensure compliance with legal standards with authorization assignment and requesting of records
• • Other projects as outlined by supervisor.

Supervisory Requirements

This position does not have supervisory requirements.

Qualification

-Education and/or Experience

• • Bachelor degree from an accredited college required. • 3-5 years of experience in litigation defense, particularly healthcare liability/personal injury and employment litigation with a fast-paced large law firm or corporation.

Language Skills

• Must possess the ability to make independent decisions, to follow instructions, and to accept constructive criticism. Ability to deal tactfully with client, personnel, residents, family members, visitors, government agencies/personnel, and the public. Ability to seek out new methods and principles and be willing to incorporate them into existing maintenance practices.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Paralegal certificate a plus

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Prolonged use of a desktop or laptop computer. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand; walk and talk, read or hear. Frequent use of all office related equipment to include; copier/scanner/fax, telephone, and calculator.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

Additional Information

Note: Nothing in this job specification restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and

responsibilities to this job at any time. Critical features of this job are described under various headings above.

• They may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. The above statements are strictly intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees in this position.