Litigation Services Manager (Docketing and E-Discovery)

Location: Hybrid; primary location Palo Alto, with listed pay locations including San Francisco, Century City, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Seattle.

Salary: $131,750–$178,250 per year in Palo Alto and San Francisco; $119,000–$161,000 per year in Century City, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Seattle. Compensation may also include a discretionary year-end merit bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a legal advisor to technology, life sciences, and other growth enterprises, representing organizations from entrepreneurial start-ups to global corporations, as well as venture firms, private equity firms, and investment banks.

What you will do

• Oversee firmwide national docketing, calendaring, and e-discovery operations, including centralized process rollout and software recommendations.
• Supervise docketing and e-discovery staff, including interviewing, training, workload direction, evaluations, overtime approval, budgeting, and recommendations on hiring, promotion, compensation, and bonuses.
• Maintain litigation docketing service levels, automated rule sets, reminders, deadline calculations, and critical-date reporting.
• Maintain docketing database integrity and quality-control procedures, and participate in testing system improvements, applications, and future calendaring technologies.
• Assess and further develop e-discovery resources, and advise attorneys and staff on litigation support procedures.
• Manage client chargebacks, invoice coding, reimbursement approvals, and communication with the litigation department leader.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant litigation support experience.
• Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local court rules.
• Expertise in Case Management/Electronic Case Filing (CM/ECF) procedures and docketing and calendaring procedures.
• Proficiency with docket databases such as ALN/eDockets, CompuLaw, and CPI, as well as Microsoft Office and PACER.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to interpret and analyze complex source data and prepare correspondence, training materials, and documentation.
• JD, master’s degree, bachelor’s degree, and/or paralegal certificate preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice to have

• Managerial experience in the docketing or e-discovery department of a large law firm.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work schedule.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Potential discretionary year-end merit bonus based on performance.