Paralegal - Fort Worth, TX

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you are empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together. The Litigation, Enforcement, and Internal Investigations teamencompasses several areas, including litigationandarbitrations, regulatory defense,internal investigations, and crisis-type situations.We are recruiting aLegal Support Senior Specialistto join a team of attorneys and professionals who are responsible for litigation and arbitration matters filed against the Company. The position involves directly supporting multiple senior leaders of the Legal Services Department as well as using in-house systems and resources to perform research tasks and provide project support for the team members in Legal Services.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration. The selected candidatewillwork on site in ourWestlake, Texaslocationandin the office at least 4 days a week.

What you’ll do:

• Support:Provide legal and administrative support to attorneys by assisting with case management, legal research, documentand casepreparation, and coordination with internal stakeholders and external counselin order toensure legal matters are handled efficiently, accurately, and in compliance with applicable laws and internal policies.

• Research: Locate electronically stored information (ESI) across the company for handling high-stakes litigation and arbitration mattersatthe direction of attorneys and other members of the litigation support team. 

• Organize: Review, analyze, and prepare ESI, documents and other material for delivery to recipients in litigation and regulatory matters. 

• Monitor andmanage:Monitor for new legal matters filed against the company and initiate the company’s defenses by using the team’s processes and matter management software;provide administrative help with correspondence, file transfers, trial and hearing exhibits, team calendar management, and internal reporting.

• Collaborate: Support the team by skillfully lending assistance in matters across multiple operating teams.

• Learn:Youand the teamwillwork on cutting edge financial and regulatory issues essential to Schwab’s business strategy: ourportfolio ofmattersincludesa remarkable variety, includingthose based in securities law, contract law,employment law,antitrust law, insurance law,intellectual property law,andconstruction law—justto name a few.And you will continuously expand your knowledge and skills to bestadviseon issues essential to Schwab’s business strategy.

• Have fun:Culture is important to us!You’ll be joining a terrific teamand some of the best professionals in the industry.While this is serious work, none ofustakeourselvestoo seriously.

• Other duties as assigned: IYKYK.And when you’reon alitigation team, you know it’s impossible to capture everything in a simple job description.

What you have

• BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience.

• Minimum5years of legal support experience (or a general understanding of legal documents and processes), or familiarity with Schwab’s computer systems.

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat, and comfort with learning new technologies and new technological skills.

• Excellentresearch and analytical skills, through which youcan identify issues and collect, organize, and distill information from multiple sources and systems. 

• Strong organizational techniques and attention to detail, where you areagile and manage a diverse set of priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. In other words,you can juggle (metaphorically speaking) while smiling.

• Excellent emotional intelligence andoutstandingclient relationship management skills.You have alove for service and collaborationwith a“can-do” attitude towards solving problems and are a team player.You eagerly seek different views and delight in fresh perspectives.

• Extraordinary interpersonal and communication skillsandexcellenceatcommunicatinginformation effectively internally and externally, including to non-legal audiences.

• Excellent judgment andcomfortmaking critical decisions under challenging circumstances and compressed timelines.Youare confident and decisive, and youbelieve in excellent work, are efficient, and meet tight deadlines with little supervision.

• A lovefor challenges and solving problems, taking pride in your work, and finding joy in the process.

• Didwemention joy.Let’s say it again!We love what we do. So should you! Our team isawesome,positive, enthusiastic, and kind. And thatmakes each workday fun and each matter uniquely interesting.