Paralegal, Litigation & eDiscovery in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland at PayPal

Job Description

Job Description

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.
The PayPal Legal Team is looking for an experienced paralegal to join its Litigation Group. In this role, you will closely work with the Litigation team attorneys and paralegals with a heavy focus on eDiscovery.
Paralegal Litigation & eDiscovery (m/f/d)

The PayPal Legal Team is looking for an experienced and dynamic paralegal to join its Litigation Group. In this role, you will closely work with the Litigation team attorneys and paralegals with a heavy focus on eDiscovery. This position reports to the Senior Director, Associate General Counsel, Global Head of eDiscovery and Technology.

This eDiscovery and litigation paralegal will assist attorneys in all phases of case development, including document collection, review, and preparation for production, deposition preparation, and document organisation. The role provides the central European contact between members of case and business teams, the global eDiscovery team and vendors to promote communication, design and implement efficient discovery workflows to ensure projects are timely completed.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assist with the management of litigation including preparing hold notices, researching, and analysing claims, gathering documents, and reviewing pleadings and discovery responses. Also responding to discovery, trial preparation, and settlements.
• Develop a thorough understanding of, and proficiency with, PayPal eDiscovery and data subject access request workflows and perform data collections from a variety of data repositories, including Office 365, Slack, shared files and folders. You will also provide support to attorneys, paralegals, and law firm personnel regarding practice support software and tools (e.g., Relativity, Eclipse, NUIX, iPro, etc.).
• Review and handle small claims court hearings and represent PayPal and its subsidiaries.
• Maintain and manage information relating to litigation and other matters handled by PayPal’s Litigation team and use that information to drive better processes and efficiencies.
• Prepare metrics, reports and presentations for internal stakeholders.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Prior in-house or law firm experience as a litigation paralegal directly related to complex commercial litigation. High proficiency/certification in iPro, Relativity, NUIX, Brainspace, or other processing and document review related tools preferred.
• Proficiency all aspects of litigation lifecycle, case management and the eDiscovery Reference Model (“EDRM”).
• Knowledge of underlying processes of EDRM (e.g. early case assessment, processing, productions, and review protocols).
• Proficient in Relativity workspace set-up including, but not limited to, analytics, user set-up and group permissions, coding layouts, running complex keyword and dtSearch queries, and workflow customisation such as indexing, set-up of views, field/choices, persistent highlighting sets, etc.
• Sound understanding of EU and US discovery and disclosure law and practice. Knowledge of issues arising from foreign languages and character sets, ability to advise on forensic preservation, collection and processing of data in the US and EU countries preferred, experience with Asian region a plus.
• Fluent English required, German and Hebrew language skills a plus

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Who We Are:

Click Here to learn more about our culture and community.

PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

As part of PayPal’s commitment to employees’ health and safety, we have established in-office Covid-19 protocols and requirements, based on expert guidance. Depending on location, this might include a Covid-19 vaccination requirement for any employee whose role requires them to work onsite. Employees may request reasonable accommodation based on a medical condition or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.

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