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Litigation Counsel 12346

A leading professional development and networking company is seeking a Litigation Counsel. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing all kinds of litigation and pre-litigation disputes. The ideal candidate has combined litigation experience at a law firm, in-house, and/or governmental agencies. The company offers a great work environment!

Litigation Counsel Pay And Benefits

• W2 Employment, Group Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement Savings Program, PSL
• Worksite: Leading professional development and networking company (San Francisco, CA 94105 or Sunnyvale, CA 94085)
• 40 hours/week, 5 Month Assignment
• Hourly pay: $130-$140/hr

Litigation Counsel Responsibilities

• Support offensive litigation to enforce our TOS against abusive tools and services.
• Engage and manage outside counsel and vendors to ensure the delivery of practical, efficient, and expert litigation advice.
• Drive good business results by providing practical legal advice on a range of product issues impacted by active or threatened litigation matters.
• Collaborate with technical investigators to send cease and desist correspondence to stop abuse on the platform such as data scraping, fake accounts, and copyright infringement.
• Handle subpoenas and regulatory inquiries, and other litigation-adjacent matters.
• Handle subpoenas and regulatory responses, oversee eDiscovery on your matters, support our TOS enforcement, and provide litigation risk counseling related to the business issues.
• Manage a global docket of all kinds of litigation and pre-litigation disputes for the company, including privacy and consumer class actions, patent and other IP disputes; individual platform user and customer disputes, employment disputes, and more.
• Work to establish internal practices to mitigate litigation risks and ensure effective responses when such risks materialize.
• Develop the best possible evidentiary record for your cases.

Litigation Counsel Qualifications

• Experience and comfort with highly-technical subject matter is preferred.
• 5+ years of combined litigation experience at a law firm, in-house, and/or governmental agencies.
• Broad litigation experience including discovery, motion practice, oral arguments, trials, drafting compelling briefs, pre-suit activity, offensive litigation, mediation, and settlement negotiations.
• Cease and desist correspondence and TOS compliance negotiations are preferred.
• Litigation experience with DMCA, CFAA, and/or California Penal Code Section 502 is preferred.
• Good judgment and strong communication, both written and verbal.
• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize competing work streams in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively both independently and in cross-functional teams is preferred.
• Comfort with eDiscovery support software and complicated eDiscovery issues is preferred.
• Litigation process management.
• Editing and improving legal briefs.
• Experience working in-house at a technology company or working closely with global technology clients is preferred.
• Excellent judgment and analytical abilities, impeccable integrity, and a good sense of humor are preferred.
• Ability to quickly identify, understand, and resolve legal and business issues is preferred.
• Experience with class actions and/or patent infringement litigation is preferred.
• Ability to distill legal and factual issues into concise explanations.
• Ability to deliver clear and concise legal advice and direction is preferred.
• Facility learning new technologies.
• Discovery nuts and bolts: written discovery, document collection, and witness depo prep.
• J.D. and admission to the California bar or the ability to practice in-house in your office location.

Compensation: From $130.00 to $140.00 per hour