Litigation Paralegal

About the Role

The Litigation Assistant (Paralegal) will support the U.S.-based legal team by accurately tracking client trade records and verifying investment fund → legal entity relationships inside the firm’s internal database. This position focuses on legal operations support, document verification, legal entity research, reconciliation, and high-accuracy data QA.

Responsibilities

• Track and maintain client trade and settlement records in the firm’s internal database with strong accuracy.
• Conduct fund-to-entity mapping research, verifying relationships between investment funds and their legal entities.
• Monitor and document fund name changes, management/AMC transfers, or entity restructuring.
• Perform QA/QC and troubleshoot financial-legal datasets using Excel and/or Python-based logic.
• Validate data using official sources, internal legal documentation, and document repositories.
• Identify and report discrepancies or inconsistencies in trade logs, fund records, or legal entity data.
• Coordinate document organization, indexing, archiving, and audit-readiness maintenance.
• Support special legal research projects and verification tasks as assigned.
• Liaise with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure up-to-date and consistent data delivery.

Qualifications

• 2–6 years of legal support or litigation operations support experience.
• Exposure or familiarity with securities, investment funds, trade logs, global settlements, or entity verification work is strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in law, Commerce, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
• Prior experience supporting international or U.S.-based legal teams in documentation/data QA roles is a plus.

Skills and Abilities:

• Strong research ability on legal entities, fund structures, and transactional documents
• Experience managing case and data trackers (Excel/Sheets/Google Workspace)
• QA/QC or audit experience on structured legal or financial datasets
• Familiarity with legal terminology and investment fund/entity hierarchies
• Ability to prioritize, verify, reconcile, QA and report inconsistencies independently
• Highly organized, analytical, detail-driven, responsible and dependable
• Strong English communication, documentation writing, and data-accuracy mindset
• Self-motivated, proactive, quick learner, and strong team collaborator

Please note:  This is not an attorney role and does not involve independent client representation or court appearances as counsel.