Paralegal
Job Description
Senior Paralegal – Mass Tort / Personal Injury
Location: Chicago, In Office
We're looking for an experienced Lead Paralegal with a strong background in mass tort or complex personal injury litigation to join a high-growth legal operations team. This is a senior-level role where your expertise will shape workflows, guide other paralegals, and influence how legal technology is built and deployed.
What You'll Do:
- Oversee high-volume mass tort workflows, including fact sheets, complaints, deficiency responses, and discovery materials.
- Review and audit case files for completeness, accuracy, and compliance.
- Serve as a point of escalation for complex cases and documentation issues.
- Apply deep subject-matter expertise across the mass tort lifecycle and identify qualifying criteria, risk indicators, and causation patterns.
- Collaborate with product teams to translate real-world paralegal workflows into actionable platform improvements.
- Mentor junior paralegals and work cross-functionally with operations, intake, and client teams.
Qualifications:
- 3–5+ years as a paralegal in mass tort or personal injury litigation.
- Experience managing high-volume plaintiff-side casework.
- Strong knowledge of medical records, causation, and discovery processes.
- Comfortable with case management systems and workflow-driven environments.
- Proficiency in Excel and metrics-driven operations.
- Excellent communication skills and sound judgment in complex or ambiguous situations.
- Experience with legal technology or SaaS platforms is a plus.
If you're ready to take ownership of critical workflows, mentor others, and bring your mass tort expertise to an innovative legal operations team, we want to hear from you.