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About the Role
This position supports the firm's litigation practice by ensuring court and agency deadlines are identified, calculated, and calendared accurately. The Specialist reviews incoming court documents and correspondence, saves them to the appropriate case, and calculates and enters deadlines in the docketing software under the applicable rules. The Specialist also reviews calendared deadlines and reports them to the docketing team. The Specialist must pay close attention to detail, understand court rules, and handle a high volume of time-sensitive work.
Responsibilities
- Review and analyze docketing requests and associated documents and accurately calculate critical dates and related deadlines
- Update existing docket entries and review work product to ensure quality control
- Research court rules and judge's orders when needed to supplement automated calculations
- Respond to case teams to ensure that docket entries are accurate
- Have knowledge of applicable court rules in state and federal courts and calculation of deadlines
- Assist with special projects and other duties as assigned to fully meet the requirements of the position
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a docketing specialist, ideally with experience with litigation in a law firm environment
- Knowledge of basic litigation docketing, calendaring and Civil Procedure
- Experience using calendaring software such as Compulaw Vision and/or CourtAlert required
- Superior accuracy and attention to detail and the ability to prioritize tasks in a high-pressure environment
- The ability to interpret and analyze information
- Knowledge of various court websites, docket searching and document retrieval databases (i.e., PACER, Lexis/Nexis, West CourtExpress, and federal/local court websites)
- Excellent communication, time management and organizational skills
- Ability to work independently, but also a reliable, conscientious, and flexible team player
- Proficient with Microsoft Office suite applications, including Outlook, Excel and Word
Skills
- Litigation docketing
- Calendaring
- Civil Procedure
- Compulaw Vision
- CourtAlert
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Outlook
- Excel
- Word
- PACER
- Lexis/Nexis
- West CourtExpress
Location
- New York
- Washington D.C.
Work Type
- Fully remote
- Full time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
Salary/Compensations
- $76,000 to $87,000 (New York City)
- $76,000 to $84,000 (Washington D.C.)
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
- Bonus
- Health insurance with an optional HSA
- Short term disability
- 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
- Employee assistance program
- 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 one of the top law firms in the U.S. and an AmLaw 100 law firm with 9 offices nationwide.
- At DWT, client service means having empathy for each client’s and each lawyer’s work and personal pressures, business objectives, and legal needs; anticipating their needs; and having the capabilities and commitment to deliver what matters most to them.
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP seeks to hire, develop and grow lawyers and business professionals who combine deep legal expertise, technological fluency, business acumen, and emotional intelligence—creating an excellent, inclusive, adaptive workforce that fuels exceptional client outcomes.
Equal Opportunity
- At Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, every employee has the right to work in an environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination.
- It is our policy to hire, promote, transfer, terminate, and make all employment-related decisions without regard to an employee’s sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical condition), race, color, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, religious creed, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, medical condition, military condition, military or veteran status or any other basis prohibited by applicable local, state, or federal laws.
- 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.