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About the Role
This position leads the firm's litigation docketing operations, ensuring accurate and timely management of litigation deadlines and court dates. The role involves team oversight, quality control, technology administration, and process improvement, serving as a key resource for attorneys and legal support teams.
Responsibilities
- Manage the litigation docketing team, including workload distribution, training, quality review, feedback, and professional development.
- Oversee the calculation, entry, review, maintenance, and reporting of litigation deadlines, court dates, filing dates, discovery deadlines, appellate deadlines, and related events.
- Develop and improve docketing policies, procedures, workflows, checklists, best practices, and quality control standards.
- Serve as a resource for attorneys and staff on court rules, local practices, deadline calculations, and docketing protocols.
- Monitor court rule and procedure changes and update docketing practices and reference materials as needed.
- Review docket reports for accuracy, completeness, and timely communication of critical deadlines.
- Assist Director with administering docketing platforms, including calendaring rules, reporting, user adoption, data accuracy, troubleshooting, and vendor coordination.
- Support software updates, enhancements, testing, implementations, and system conversions in coordination with docket team, IT, vendors, practice groups, and end users.
- Deliver training on docketing procedures, software functionality, workflows, and best practices.
- Maintain procedures, training guides, workflow documentation, internal communications, and reference resources.
- Manage escalations involving complex deadline calculations, court notices, disputed dates, and advanced rules analysis.
- Maintain confidentiality and professionalism when handling sensitive client, matter, personnel, and firm information.
Requirements
- 5+ years of litigation docketing, calendaring, or case management experience in a law firm, corporate legal department, court, or similar legal environment.
- Supervisory, lead, or management experience in docketing or legal operations strongly preferred.
- Experience with software upgrades, rule updates, enhancements, data migration, implementations, or system conversions preferred.
- Ability to interpret court rules, analyze complex procedural questions, document findings, and clearly communicate guidance.
- Excellent writing, communication, organization, judgment, discretion, and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage high-volume, deadline-driven work and interact professionally with attorneys, staff, vendors, court personnel, and firm leadership.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications; experience with document management and matter management systems preferred.
Skills
- Litigation docketing
- Calendaring
- Case management
- CompuLaw
- CourtAlert
- Calendaring
- Reporting
- Rules-based calculations
- Matter maintenance
- User support
- Software upgrades
- Rule updates
- Enhancements
- Data migration
- Implementations
- System conversions
- Federal court rules
- State court rules
- Local rules
- Appellate rules
- Court-specific practices
- Microsoft Office applications
- Document management systems
- Matter management systems
Location
- Seattle
- Portland
- San Francisco
- Los Angeles
- New York
- Washington D.C.
Work Type
- Fully remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of litigation docketing, calendaring, or case management experience
- Supervisory, lead, or management experience in docketing or legal operations
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree preferred
- Equivalent litigation docketing, court, or legal operations experience may be considered
Salary/Compensations
- Washington: $136,000 - $145,000
- Los Angeles: $136,000 - $145,000
- San Francisco: $156,000 - $167,000
- New York City: $144,000 - $171,000
- Washington D.C.: $133,000 - $161,000
Benefits
- Choice of health and vision insurance plans
- 2 paid volunteer days for qualifying community service work
- Dental plan
- Fertility and adoption benefit
- Paid sabbatical after 13 years of service
- Tuition reimbursement
- Commuter benefits
- Retirement contribution
- Health insurance with an optional HSA
- Long term disability
- Vision care
- Telemedicine and virtual short term solution based counseling services
- Life insurance
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Subsidized backup care and caregiving resources
- 401(k)
- Vacation
- Sick time
- 11 paid holidays each year
- Employee assistance program
- Short term disability
- Voluntary accident insurance
- Voluntary life
- Voluntary disability
- Voluntary long term care
- Pet insurance
- Commuter and Transit programs
About the Company
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is an AmLaw 100 law firm with 9 offices nationwide.
- Relentlessly committed to client service.
- Fosters inclusiveness and authenticity.
- Everyone has a voice and the support is unparalleled.
- Fosters a culture where all talented individuals can have, and can see, paths to success.
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion sits on four pillars: Community, Growth, Education, and Engagement.
Equal Opportunity
- Davis Wright Tremaine provides reasonable accommodations for those who need them to complete the application or recruiting process and for employees who need reasonable accommodations to perform the essential functions of their positions due to a disability or for religious reasons.
- If you need to request accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please email humanresources_confidential@dwt.com.