Litigation Paralegal / Associate Paralegal

Union Pacific, a Fortune 150 company, has an open position for a Paralegal in Spring, Texas. The Spring office has a team of attorneys and paralegals who defend and try personal injury litigation filed in the state of Texas. The Law office is in Spring, Texas.

This paralegal position supports the Personal Injury Litigation team with a focus on FELA and thrid party, working closely with in-house and outside counsel. The paralegal is responsible for a heavy litigated caseload and drafting pleadings and discovery responses to reduce outside counsel spend. The Paralegal is also responsible for identifying and gathering documents responsible to discovery, preparing legal documents and correspondence, assisting in interviewing witnesses, maintaining electronic files and calendaring litigation deadlines, witness interviews and depositions among others. This position is assigned to the Personal Injury Litigation Team within Union Pacific's Law Department.

Union Pacific has a 50% work from home policy. Benefits include a robust 401K matching plan, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), health, vision, and dental coverage, life and disability insurance, wellness programs, adoption/surrogacy assistance, childcare/support services, parental leave, tuition reimbursement and many other valuable benefits. The long list of benefits can be found under the Benefits section on up.jobs (https://up.jobs/why/benefits/management/index.htm).

Provide substantive case management and advanced paralegal support for litigated matters impacting Union Pacific Railroad.

Accountabilities

• Assist in-house and retained counsel in all aspects of litigation management from inception to conclusion, including matter intake, internal and external communication, pleading preparation and review, discovery management, preparing for and attending trial, settlement and other case management obligations
• Investigate and respond to administrative complaints
• Assist in pre-trial and trial preparation. Assist attorneys during trial as required
• Assist in meet and confer process and draft case specific discovery to plaintiffs and other parties
• Perform legal and non-legal research to assist attorneys in establishing UPRR's position and formulation of strategy
• Assist in interviewing witnesses and deposition preparation
• Proactive, solution-oriented approach to identifying and resolving issues
• Desire and ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Attend mediation and assist with negotiating a case to settlement
• Perform research pertaining to a range of legal and factual issues
• Conduct pre-claim investigations and initial case assessments, collect and review records, and create tools to assist with case analyses
• Draft pleadings, motions and appellate documents and file them with the court
• Excellent attention to detail

Qualifications

Work Conditions

• Benefit information can be found under the Benefits section on up.jobs (https://up.jobs/why/benefits/index.htm)