Paralegal supporting antitrust investigations and litigation at Hogan Lovells. Responsible for document management, client correspondence, and legal research.
About the role
- Paralegal supporting bpx’s litigation and discovery obligations across oil and gas legal issues. Collaborating with legal teams in Denver and Houston corporate offices for effective case management.
Responsibilities
- Work with in-house and external litigation counsel to manage litigation docket
- Administer bpx matter management system
- Analyze incoming discovery requests and outline plan for compliance
- Identify relevant witnesses, including former company employees, and assist with locating witnesses and coordinating interviews
- Participate in interviews of witnesses and document custodians and in meetings with external counsel and business clients related to litigation matters
- Provide hands on support to business custodians during document collection efforts, including guidance on email searches, file transfers, and use of approved bpx systems
- Work with Houston-based bp Legal Discovery Team on electronic discovery collections
- Review written discovery response drafts and provide comments
- Work with vendors and external counsel to ensure adherence to bpx discovery processes and workflows across all discovery phases
- Assist with maintaining litigation files in online matter management system and in Legal department electronic file system
- Coordinate witness deposition preparation, witness trial preparation and trial attendance
- Research cases in state and federal courts
- Work with all bpx in-house counsel in support of a variety of oil and gas, environmental, regulatory, commercial and employment law matters (including legal and factual research, filing preparations and document management)
- Act as administrator and subject-matter expert for the bpx legal hold platform (Guardian); draft, modify, issue and release legal holds, and perform related functions
- Responsible for triage of service of process received by bpx business
- Engage with BP America’s US Corporate Secretary’s Office to maintain slate of officers, board resolutions and powers-of-attorney for the various bpx legal entities, and provide other corporate governance related support to the business
- Assist in the planning and development of materials for legal training of business personnel
- Conduct first level legal review of Confidentiality Agreements and other contracts, audits, Lessons Learned, internal investigation reports, and other business documents
- Provide legal administrative and interpersonal support to aid overall legal team operations
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of paralegal experience in either a law firm or business law department (experience with upstream oil and gas legal issues is strongly preferred)
- Hands on experience supporting sophisticated litigation, legal holds, discovery workflows, and cross functional legal operations
- Strong understanding of current electronic discovery technologies, including e-discovery databases and use cases for AI in discovery, as well as the general discovery obligations imposed on litigants
- Proficiency with online legal research tools, including Westlaw, PACER, and state court docket databases in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma
- Ability to work well with outside counsel, have strong business acumen, excellent attention to detail, and a proven track record as a team player
- Exceptional organizational skills, excellent communication skills (both oral and written), and sound judgment
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Ability to think quickly and analytically and be able to manage multiple priorities under short deadlines
- Prior project management experience in large, sophisticated electronic discovery projects is helpful
- Demonstrated experience in developing, implementing, and using legal department technology solutions (e.g., eBilling, matter management, and eDiscovery tool
Benefits
- health, vision and dental insurance
- flexible working schedules
- paid time off
- discretionary annual bonus program
- 401(k) matching program
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