CONTRACT | Toxic Tort Paralegal

Duration: 3-6 months, potential for extension

Pay Rate: $40-50/hour, DOE

Location: primarily remote work, but must be able to report to one of these offices as needed: Kansas City, MO, St. Louis, MO, Houston, TX, Miami FL, Orange County, CA, Los Angeles, CA or San Francisco, CA.

Position Overview: In this role, you will be embedded with one or more of the firm's litigation legal teams to support docketing, calendaring, and case management functions across a high-volume litigation portfolio. Responsibilities may include: Monitor, review, and interpret incoming case filings — including pleadings, deposition and hearing notices, and trial-setting orders — applying litigation judgment in coordination with the supervising attorney to determine deadlines and required calendar entries. Direct the calendaring team to update the firm's database, which flows into case trackers and other firm systems, and provide supporting information needed for accurate entry. Perform quality control on calendared work, drawing on substantive asbestos/toxic tort knowledge to confirm that entries accurately reflect submitted filings and that rescheduled or canceled events are updated rather than duplicated. Review and circulate daily docketing reports (generated from the BEC docketing program) to ensure attorneys are informed of new entries and calendar changes. Triage and escalate time-sensitive or high-priority filings — such as motions for trial preference and PMK/representative deposition notices — to the appropriate legal team members. LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better and we encourage all applicants; including people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities to join us so we can do great things together.