Litigation Legal Specialist

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Chicago, IL, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years litigation experience with a law firm or in-house legal department.

• 8 years of relevant work experience as a paralegal or legal assistant, including experience with complex electronic discovery, Internet technology and patent litigation, regulatory investigations and general litigation.
• Excellent analytical skills with a strong ability to review and organize numerous documents in complex legal matters.
• Exceptional communication skills and a commitment to professionalism and collegiality.
• Willingness to lean into ambiguity, new challenges, and problem-solving; finding new solutions, leveraging new tools (such as AI) to meet the moment of increasing scale without equally increased headcount.

About the jobIn the growing tech industry, Google's fast-paced legal department is setting the pace for the rest of the industry to keep up. As a Litigation Legal Specialist (fka Paralegal), you're at the center of the action of Google's dynamic Litigation Team. You are behind the success of your Legal team, ready to work collaboratively across the team to meet deadlines, manage simultaneous projects on a variety of legal matters and help the team wherever needed. You have specialized Litigation knowledge and a bias toward action, problem-solving, and getting things done which will influence some of the most defining legal cases in the information age.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $105000 - $151000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Assist Litigation Counsel in managing document preservation, collection, review and production procedures, including evaluating new technologies and vendors.
• Collaborate with the Litigation and Discovery teams, as well as other groups at Google, to ensure internal systems work well with discovery procedures.
• Supervise document retrieval and document production, coordinating with external legal counsel in litigation matters.
• Coordinate with external legal counsel on specific assignments, review preliminary advice and provide internal recommendations.
• Support special project work, including data analytics and tooling development, leaning into early adoption of AI tooling and process improvement to meet the challenges of scale in a growing docket.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .