Paralegal-Litigation And Legal Operations

About the Role:

Gusto is looking for a talented, motivated, and highly organized Paralegal to support the Legal Employment & Litigation team. In this role you'll be working in a fast-paced, dynamic, environment supporting litigation and employment matters and handling responses to third-party information requests, including subpoenas and escalated customer demands. You'll also support the Legal Operations function, managing outside counsel relationships and building scalable systems and processes to support the Legal & Compliance team.

About the Team:

You will be joining the Legal & Compliance team at Gusto, reporting to the Head of Legal Employment & Litigation and helping to build out the Employment & Litigation and Legal Operations functions. You will work closely with members of the Legal team, as well as various cross-departmental partners throughout the business.

Here's what you'll do day-to-day:

• Provide litigation support to the Legal Employment & Litigation team with management of administrative, pre-litigation, and litigation matters, and external legal requests

• Investigate pre-litigation and litigation matters and draft communications

• Play a key role in handling small claims matters

• Organize, manage and update case management system and case materials; calendar response deadlines

• Coordinate with internal and external partners in handling of requests

• Manage outside counsel relationships, firm onboarding and offboarding, bar admissions, legal subscriptions and tech resources

• Build systems and processes to enhance operational efficiency of the Legal Department

• Provide support on special projects, research, and data analytics tasks

Here's what we're looking for:

• 5+ years of experience as a litigation paralegal

• Experience working on a high volume docket of third-party requests and subpoenas

• Ability to prioritize and be responsive in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to build positive relationships with internal stakeholders

• High degree of organization and attention to detail

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Excellent business judgment

• Ability to learn and take initiative to build tools and processes

• A collaborative approach and demonstrated ability to work well under pressure, cross-functionally, and independently

• A team player mindset (no job is too big or too small)

Bonus Points

• In house experience at a high-growth company

• Employment law experience

• E-discovery experience

• Ability to use G-Suite, Jira, Salesforce, DocuSign, Asana, and Westlaw

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $127,000 - $157,000 in San Francisco and $108,000 - $134,000 in Denver. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.