GPAC (Growing People and Companies) is an award-winning search firm specializing in placing quality professionals within multiple industries across the United States since 1990. About the opportunity A well-established, full-service law firm, nationally ranked among the Best Law Firms and serving clients for more than a century, is adding a Litigation Paralegal in Pittsburgh.

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Litigation Paralegal (ERISA & General Litigation), Pittsburgh, PA

About the opportunity A well-established, full-service law firm, nationally ranked among the Best Law Firms and serving clients for more than a century, is adding a Litigation Paralegal in Pittsburgh. You'll work closely with attorneys across the general litigation and ERISA practice groups on a wide range of client matters.

What you'll work on Experience in most of these areas is preferred. If some are new to you, the right attitude to dig in and learn matters just as much.

• The building and construction industry exemption
• Transactions to evade or avoid withdrawal liability
• Successor, alter ego, and single-employer liability
• Partial withdrawals (70% declines, bargaining outs, facility takeouts)
• Calculating withdrawal liability
• Controlled group liability
• How ERISA and the Bankruptcy Code interact
• Enforcing the "pay now, dispute later" rule
• Laches
• Recovering delinquent contributions from active employers

Required

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 3+ years as a paralegal in a related area of law
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel), including complex documents and spreadsheets
• Strong DocuSign and Adobe skills

A plus

• Active notary
• iManage or a similar document management system
• Aderant or similar billing and timekeeping software
• Relativity, CaseMap, TrialMap, or Trial Director
• Experience working to a billable-hours expectation
• Federal court experience
• Clients in the trades (Boilermakers, Ironworkers, Steelworkers)
• Withdrawal liability, delinquent benefit contributions, fiduciary claims, asset and stock sales, employment law, and ERISA matters

Salary commensurate with candidate experience and other job-related factors permitted by law.

How to Apply:
Email your resume to: 

jackie.tucker@gogpac.com

Phone/Text: (605) 305-3814

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations.

GPAC (Growing People and Companies) is an award-winning search firm specializing in placing quality professionals within multiple industries across the United States since 1990. We are extremely competitive, client-focused and realize that our value is in our ability to deliver the right solutions at the right time.