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About the Role
This position provides daily supervision and support to patent and trademark paralegals firmwide, ensuring they meet the firm's goals through timely, high-quality work product and client service. The role involves managing and rebalancing caseloads, assessing performance, setting objectives, advising on policies, and collaborating on projects.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of IP paralegals.
- Manage and rebalance paralegal caseloads based on skill, capacity, and urgency to ensure quality work and high utilization.
- Promote continuing education and skills advancement; provide training opportunities.
- Ensure compliance with ethical, procedural, and firm standards.
- Monitor and ensure patent and trademark paralegal work product is timely, accurate, and meets attorney and client needs.
- Manage complex workflows and cross-office coverage, track overtime, promote positive change, and take a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Provide day-to-day supervision, manage time and attendance, approve payroll and expenses, and conduct semi-annual check-ins with goal-setting.
- Provide employee relations support in collaboration with IP Leadership and Human Resources.
- Manage recruiting, hiring, and onboarding of patent and trademark paralegals.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in a law firm or in-house legal department.
- Experience leading in a supervisory/management role.
- Subject matter expertise in rules and procedures in multiple areas of intellectual property (e.g., patent, trademark, and copyright).
- Ability to supervise a team of 20+ paralegals, creating a positive working environment and leading by example.
- General management and leadership skills, including effective communication, interpersonal skills, strong organizational and problem-solving abilities, and the ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organization.
- Outstanding customer service skills, professional demeanor, discretion, and flexibility.
- Ability to manage stressful situations calmly and professionally, anticipating conflicts and reaching satisfactory resolutions.
- High degree of sensitivity for confidential matters.
- Demonstrated ability to use MS Office products, specifically Excel and Word.
Skills
- Intellectual property (patent, trademark, copyright)
- Supervisory/management
- Team leadership
- Caseload management
- Performance assessment
- Goal setting
- Policy advising
- Workflow management
- Budget management
- Recruiting
- Hiring
- Onboarding
- Employee relations
- Communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Organizational skills
- Problem-solving
- Customer service
- Professional demeanor
- Discretion
- Flexibility
- Stress management
- Confidentiality
- MS Office (Excel, Word)
Location
- Seattle
- Portland
- San Francisco
- Los Angeles
- New York
- Washington D.C.
Work Type
- Fully remote (within reasonable commuting distance from any office)
Experience Level
- 8+ years experience
- Supervisory/management experience
Education Level
- Bachelor of Arts degree preferred
- Paralegal certification preferred
Salary/Compensations
- Washington: $157,000 - $178,000
- Los Angeles: $160,000 - $179,000
- San Francisco: $179,000 - $204,000
- New York City: $169,000 - $193,000
- Washington D.C.: $161,000 - $177,000
Benefits
- Choice of health and vision insurance plans
- 2 paid volunteer days
- Dental plan
- Fertility and adoption benefit
- Paid sabbatical after 13 years of service
- Tuition reimbursement
- Commuter benefits
- Retirement contribution
- Bonus eligibility
- Optional HSA
- Long term disability
- 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
- Voluntary accident insurance
- Voluntary life insurance
- Voluntary disability insurance
- Voluntary long term care insurance
- Pet insurance
- Transit programs
About the Company
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is an AmLaw 100 law firm with 9 offices nationwide.
- Relentlessly committed to client service, with empathy for client and lawyer pressures, business objectives, and legal needs.
- Fosters inclusiveness and authenticity, where everyone has a voice and unparalleled support.
- DWT fosters a culture where all talented individuals can have and 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.