Open Positions: Professional Staff

The Labor & Employment Paralegal supports multiple attorneys in the firm’s Labor & Employment section. This individual will report to the Manager of Legal Support and will work closely with partners, associates, and other paralegals in the section. This role offers the opportunity to work from a remote location on days when in-person attendance is not required, and as agreed upon by the direct supervisor. It is an essential function of this remote role that the employee be available to attend in-person meetings, trials, professional development sessions, or to come to the office for other reasons, if the need arises. This position requires the individual reside in California, and will have a designation to the San Francisco  Hanson Bridgett office.

A Labor & Employment Paralegal supports attorneys handling matters involving workplace disputes, compliance issues, discrimination claims, class, PAGA, and individual wage-and-hour matters, union/collective bargaining issues, and employment-related litigation. This role requires advanced litigation knowledge, strong research skills, and hands‑on experience preparing cases from intake through trial.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties

• Locate and interview witnesses; gather documents and evidence; create timelines and chronologies of facts; create and maintain case information lists for parties, witnesses and other stakeholders .
• Draft answers and declarations, prepare and assemble exhibits, and support attorneys with accurate and timely court filings, ensuring all submissions meet procedural and formatting requirements.
• Draft interrogatories, requests for production of documents, requests for admissions and responses to same.
• Prepare, serve, respond to and manage subpoenas and related documents.
• Draft correspondence, legal memoranda, discovery summaries, and trial preparation materials under attorney supervision.
• Coordinate communication between clients, attorneys, HR teams, and agencies.
• Function as key support on discovery issues, including collecting, maintaining and preserving client documents; managing, uploading and processing documents in databases; creating searches in databases; reviewing and coding documents for privilege or responsiveness to issues or document requests; and redacting documents.
• Conduct comprehensive cite checking of briefs and other legal filings, verifying accuracy of citations, Shepardizing/KeyCiting authorities, confirming quotation integrity, and ensuring compliance with Bluebook or jurisdiction‑specific citation rules.
• Support labor and other negotiation processes by gathering, organizing, and maintaining comprehensive records of negotiation proposals, ensuring accuracy, accessibility, and seamless coordination throughout all stages of the negotiation.
• Provide transactional support, including assisting with review, revision, and/or creation of policies for handbooks.
• Assist with all aspects of trial logistics and courtroom support, including creating demonstratives for trial; managing exhibits; preparing trial subpoenas; coordinating and liaising with witnesses; preparing and maintaining trial binders; attending trial to assist with jury selection, assisting with witnesses operate the Trial Director, and taking notes.
• Additional Areas: manage deadlines and calendars; attend meetings to take notes, prepare task lists, and attend to post-meeting action items; and assume additional responsibilities, as needed.
• Bill 1500 hours per year, with the expectation that overtime may be needed on occasion.

Required Skills, Abilities, and Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of paralegal experience, with significant litigation and trial exposure.
• Must be available and willing to travel and provide on-site support during trials, including assisting attorneys in the courtroom and managing trial logistics as needed.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college/university and Paralegal Certificate from an ABA-approved paralegal program.
• California B&P 6450 compliance documentation.
• Demonstrated experience with employment-law or labor-law matters (e.g., discrimination claims, class action, wage-and-hour issues, disputes involving workplace policies).
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; positive and driven attitude.
• Must be able to work both independently and collaboratively in a deadline-driven environment with attorneys, other paralegals, and staff.
• Excellent technology skills and knowledge of key software systems, particularly MS Office, Acrobat Pro DC, Smart Sheet, Intapp Time, Trial Director, Everlaw Database, and various payroll software platforms.

Hanson Bridgett offers a competitive salary and benefits package. The annual salary for this California-based role is anticipated to be in the area of $115,000 - $130,000, and represents the firm’s good faith and reasonable estimate of possible compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation is negotiable and will depend upon a number of factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s years of experience, qualifications, and skill set.