Pittsburgh

The Pittsburgh office is seeking a highly motivated and industrious Attorney to work in the firm’s Product Liability practice area.

The ideal candidate must have the following skills for consideration:

• At least 5 years’ experience in litigation areas such as products liability, class actions, and multi-district litigation.
• Excellent academic credentials as well as strong organization, writing, and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of county, state, and federal courts and related rules of civil procedures.
• Experience in active participation in depositions, oral arguments, and courtroom experiences.
• Strong attention to detail in all work, along with the ability to manage multiple files and to prioritize workloads to effectively meet all deadlines.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with all levels of management, staff, and clients.
• Forward thinking, organized, and a team player.
• Ability to independently solve problems and exercise sound judgment with minimal direction.

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The Pittsburgh office is seeking a highly motivated and industrious paralegal to provide direct support for the Senior Partners in the Commercial Litigation practice area.

Job responsibilities would include:

• Managing the lifecycle of active matters/cases and monitoring case progress.
• Deposition and trial preparation by way of:

-Conducting legal research for litigation or legal briefs,
-Identifying, compiling, researching, and analyzing information prior to preparing reports and exhibits,
-Preparing case files, binders, summaries, and other paper/electronic case materials such as witness binders, pre-trial binders, and compilation of trial exhibits, and
-Coordinating and preparing witnesses testimony at trial and depositions.

• Preparing general motions, pleadings, subpoenas, and other documents as requested.
• Responding to discovery requests.
• Electronic filing of pleadings such as Appearances, Answers, and all pretrial and dispositive Motions in state and federal courts.
• Logging and entering in billable time to Prolaw billing system.

The ideal candidate must have the following skills for consideration:

• At least 7 years’ experience supporting attorneys in complex litigation.
• Experience with county, state, and federal courts, including knowledge of CM/ECF filing.
• Strong attention to detail in all work.
• Ability to manage multiple files and to prioritize workloads to effectively meet all deadlines.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with all levels of management, staff, and clients.
• Forward thinking, organized, and a team player.
• Ability to independently solve problems and exercise sound judgment with minimal direction.
• Experience with litigation technology applications such as eDiscovery Point, Case Notebook, and Relativity.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Paralegal Certificate preferred.
• Experience with iManage and Prolaw a plus.

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The Pittsburgh office is seeking a highly motivated and experienced legal assistant to provide secretarial and administrative support for up to three attorneys in the Commercial Litigation practice group.

Job responsibilities would include:

• Transcribing, composing, formatting, editing, proofreading, and finalizing all forms of documents, correspondence, pleadings, and reports.
• Opening of new files, file set up and organization, preparing conflicts checks, and updating glance sheets and litigation profiles as needed.
• Preparing and filing of pleadings such as Appearances, Answers, and all pretrial and dispositive Motions in state and federal courts.
• Coordinating, maintaining, and calendaring upcoming trial dates, arbitrations, jury trials, depositions, inspections, and all corresponding status notes.
• Managing incoming mail, entering daily time entries, submitting vendor invoices for payment.
• Maintaining attorney calendars, travel arrangements, and expense reporting.
• Reviewing and editing prebills per client guidelines.

The ideal candidate must have the following skills for consideration:

• At least 5 years’ experience assisting attorneys in complex litigation.
• Experience with both State and Federal courts, including knowledge of CM/ECF filing.
• Strong attention to detail in all work.
• Ability to manage multiple files and to prioritize workloads to effectively meet all deadlines.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with all levels of management, staff, and clients.
• Forward thinking, organized, and a team player.
• Ability to independently solve problems and exercise sound judgment with minimal direction.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Experience with iManage & Prolaw a plus.

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The Pittsburgh office has an immediate opening for a full-time Receptionist.  As a key member of the Firm, this individual will provide general administrative support to all members and guests of the office. The ideal candidate must be punctual, friendly, organized, have excellent phone etiquette, and be able to handle multiple responsibilities. 

Job responsibilities would include:

• Answering firm telephone and greeting guests.
• Maintaining firm conference room calendar and assist in preparing and setting up conference rooms for internal meetings, conferences, and events.
• Entering time and submitting expenses for various attorneys and administrators.
• General secretarial duties, including drafting, copying, faxing, scanning, and filing of incoming and outgoing correspondence and documents.
• Providing administrative support as needed including preparing correspondence, redacting documents, and preparing spreadsheets.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Strong attention to detail in all work.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with all levels of management, staff, and clients.
• Forward thinking, punctual, organized, and a team player with customer service skills.
• Ability to independently solve problems and exercise sound judgment with minimal direction.
• Professional office experience a plus.

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Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Center City office is seeking highly motivated and industrious Associates to work in the Firm’s Labor & Employment and Commercial Litigation practice areas.

The ideal candidates will possess:

• At least 3-5 years’ experience in litigation areas such as labor & employment, commercial litigation, higher education & Title IX, class actions, or multi-district litigation.
• Excellent academic credentials as well as strong organization, writing, and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of county, state, and federal courts and related rules of civil procedures.
• Experience participating in depositions, oral arguments, and courtroom experiences. Experience conducting internal investigations preferred.
• Strong attention to detail in all work, along with the ability to manage multiple files and to prioritize workloads to effectively meet all deadlines.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with all levels of management, staff, and clients.
• Forward thinking, organized, and a team player.
• Ability to independently solve problems and exercise sound judgment with minimal direction.

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The Philadelphia Center City office has an immediate opening for a full-time Administrative Coordinator. As a key member of the Firm, this individual will provide general administrative support to all members and guests of the office with primary day-to-day responsibility for organizing, indexing, maintaining, and retrieving information relative to, and in support of, all practice groups. 

Job responsibilities would include:

• Answering firm telephone and greeting guests.
• Maintaining firm conference room calendar and assist in preparing and setting up conference rooms for internal meetings, conferences, and events.
• Coordinating daily attendance reports.
• Entering time and submitting expenses for various attorneys and administrators.
• Sorting a regular flow of documents by case and by document type from all members.
• Preparing file folders, creating indexes and databases for the management of large volume cases.
• Managing file room and organizing files office-wide, including labeling, indexing, and preparing records for storage.
• Anticipating upcoming case events, i.e. scheduled depositions and updating the files accordingly for attorney review.
• Seeking information on short notice, across all open and closed matters, as requested by attorneys.
• General secretarial duties, including drafting, copying, faxing, scanning, and filing of incoming and outgoing correspondence and documents.
• Providing administrative support as needed including preparing correspondence, redacting documents, and preparing spreadsheets.

The ideal candidate must have the following skills for consideration:

• Associates degree preferred with two years clerical or administrative job experience in a professional office environment.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products – Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Strong attention to detail in all work.
• Ability to manage multiple files and to prioritize workloads to effectively meet all deadlines.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with all levels of management, staff, and clients.
• Forward thinking, punctual, organized, and a team player with customer service skills.
• Ability to independently solve problems and exercise sound judgment with minimal direction.
• Law firm experience with familiarity of general legal terminology a plus.

Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP offers a collegial work environment with competitive salary and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, life and long-term disability insurance, and a 401(k) program.