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Legal.io lists this Legal Assistant, Litigation, Legal Hold & Matter Management opportunity in wichita, Kansas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
A Fortune 50 company in the energy, gas, and renewables space is seeking a Legal Assistant to support their Litigation, Legal Hold & Matter Management processes.
This is a 9-month, fully remote role. The ideal candidate has experience with Exterro, CSC, and CounselLink.
Scope of Work
Title: Legal Assistant, Litigation, Legal Hold & Matter Management (contract)
Experience: 4+ Years
Location: Remote - US
Hours: 40 Hours / Week
Duration: 9 Months, starting end of October 2026
Benefits:
Vision, medical, dental, 401k
Pay Rate: $40 - $60 / hr ($80,000 - $120,000 annualized)
A leading global energy company is seeking a legal operations or legal assistant to help keep its legal systems and operations running smoothly. In this role, you'll monitor service-of-process notifications through CSC, maintain matters in CounselLink, support legal hold workflows in Exterro, and be the first point of contact for team questions across these platforms. The work is varied, from administering user permissions and processing hold releases to routing subpoenas and preparing recurring reports.
The team is looking for someone who is detail-oriented, responsive, and comfortable working within established processes. You'll be a good fit if you communicate clearly, follow through on requests, and enjoy supporting a collaborative legal team.
Responsibilities include:
Exterro:
System admin duties: add/update users and user permissions
Assist paralegals, e-Discovery Operations, and Law IT Analysts/EMIT
Work with Law IT analyst on issues with custodian legal hold release, access to links and/or issues with responding to a legal hold notice, update legal hold templates and/or legal hold training
Update and send twice-yearly consolidated legal hold reminder
Review monthly licensing report and update user permissions
LH 06 reports and twice-monthly meetings with Law IT analysts to reconcile legal hold systems
Legal hold release tickets
Legal hold offboarding notice (sent to assigned paralegal)
Company-owned device (COD) requests
Consolidated hold reminder shared mailbox
Corporation Service Company (CSC):
Point of contact for service of process questions
Forward service of process documents (subpoenas, notices, liens, etc.) to contact for handling and assist with opening lawsuits in CounselLink
Approve weekly CSC report and acknowledgment
Run reports and work with CSC to update attorney access to matters
Troubleshoot vendor access
Risk assessments
CounselLink
Open/update matters
Check tasks and intakes
Matter Management
Law Matter Management shared mailbox: field various requests
Litigation Hold Law shared mailbox: field various questions and requests, including legal hold questions
Public Information Requests shared mailbox
Business Continuity Plan (BCP) contact and monthly report upload (Exterro export), a monthly backup report identifying who needs to be placed on hold in a cyber event
BRG (insurance) cost recovery reports (provide backup data) for MTBE, Asbestos, Benzene, Climate, and Louisiana Coastal Environmental litigation
Medicare quarterly reporting and reporting log updates, relating to settlement payments that may offset Medicare payments
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Who can apply
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