Paralegal III

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Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific's Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Accomplishing that Mission includes supporting the values and goals of the company by providing resourceful, innovative, and timely services to mitigate litigation and legal risks worldwide.

Thermo Fisher offers a dynamic and inclusive opportunity for a proactive Litigation Paralegal to support diverse in-house and outside litigation teams.

This role can be based in the Company’s Pittsburgh, PA (Pittsburgh area) or Waltham, MA (Boston area) locations.

What will you do?

• Assist internal and external litigators with a diverse portfolio of civil litigation matters, including early case assessment, discovery, trial, and appeals.
• Support litigation projects, lead fact investigation, document collection, review and production; discovery requests; and conduct witness interviews and deposition preparation.
• Support responses to demands, threatened claims, and requests for information from third parties, and subpoenas.
• Lead insurance reimbursement process for defense and indemnity costs
• Lead all aspects of litigation holds, new case intake process, database management; coordinate litigation dockets.
• Perform legal research and fact investigation.
• Support legal projects, including data management, process improvement and litigation spend.
• Collaborate across business functions and geographic boundaries, building scalable processes

How will you get here?

• 5+ years of commercial litigation experience at a major law firm or in-house legal department.
• Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent knowledge and experience.
• Consistent track record of leading strategic projects.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Experience with eDiscovery tools (knowledge of Relativity a plus).
• Understanding of federal, state and local civil procedure
• Project management skills in either legal or scientific/engineering context.
• Goal and detail oriented; self-directed and skilled in prioritization and multitasking.
• Inquisitive mentality and desire to grow and learn new skills and step outside traditional paralegal tasks
• Experience with Microsoft Office Tools such as Teams, Excel, Power Point, Power BI, Smartsheets
• Strong interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills, strong initiative, results-orientation, collaborative/team instinct, and can-do approach.

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