# Litigation Paralegal

**Company:** [Perplexity](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/perplexity)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $120k – $195k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Ediscovery, Edrm, Legal Holds, Document Preservation, Document Collection, Document Review, Document Production, Litigation Support, Docketing, Legal Billing, Matter Management, AI Tools
**Posted:** 2026-08-17

> Supports civil litigation and eDiscovery operations across multiple matters, coordinating legal holds, collections, vendors, subpoenas, deadlines, billing, and legal-operations systems. Requires at least three years of paralegal or litigation coordination experience and strong discretion with confidential material.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Manage eDiscovery workflows end to end across multiple matters, including legal hold notices, custodian lists and acknowledgments, custodian interviews, collection, processing, review, and production.
- Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for eDiscovery and litigation-support vendors, including scoping statements of work, tracking data volumes and hosting costs, reviewing invoices, and enforcing agreed rates and service levels.
- Support attorneys with case management, including file management, case files and pleadings, docketing, key deadlines, hearing dates, and matter updates.
- Own intake for new matters and third-party legal requests by logging, triaging, routing, and summarizing claims, requesters, matter types, and deadlines.
- Coordinate responses to subpoenas, summonses, preservation demands, litigation hold requests, and other third-party legal requests.
- Help manage outside counsel relationships and billing records, including matter budgets, accrual tracking, invoice review against Outside Counsel Guidelines, and billing-system hygiene.
- Build and improve intake workflows, response playbooks, matter templates, trackers, escalation paths, and preservation checklists.
- Support litigation and legal-operations projects, including tool implementations, vendor evaluations, and policy rollouts.

## Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a paralegal, legal assistant, or litigation coordinator at a law firm or in-house legal department.
- Deep understanding of civil litigation from inception through resolution.
- Hands-on eDiscovery experience across the EDRM lifecycle, including legal holds, document preservation, collection, processing, review, and production.
- Experience working directly with eDiscovery and litigation-support vendors, including statements of work, budgets, and invoices.
- Experience managing a high volume of concurrent matters and deadlines.
- Strong organizational skills and exacting attention to detail.
- Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Discretion and sound judgment when handling confidential and privileged material.

## Nice to Have
- Paralegal certificate, associate’s degree in paralegal studies, or bachelor’s degree.
- Experience with eDiscovery review platforms, legal research and docketing databases, document management systems, and legal billing or matter management software.
- Experience processing subpoenas, summonses, and other third-party legal requests.
- Demonstrated fluency with AI tools used to build real workflows.
- Experience at a high-growth technology startup.
- Interest in artificial intelligence laws and regulations.

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