Litigation Paralegal, Assistant Vice President

Position Overview

State Street’s Litigation Team is seeking an experienced litigation paralegal to support litigation, investigations, discovery, legal process, and related litigation operations across the company. This role will work closely with Litigation Team attorneys and collaborate with business personnel, outside counsel, and other stakeholders on a broad range of matters affecting State Street’s businesses and functions.

The successful candidate will bring strong litigation experience, sound judgment, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to independently manage multiple matters and projects in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior paralegal and litigation operations support to the Litigation Team on matters affecting business units and functions across State Street.
• Manage the intake, tracking, and appropriate routing of legal process and other formal legal requests received by State Street, including complaints, subpoenas, court orders, and regulatory requests.
• Coordinate responses to subpoenas, discovery requests, and other legal demands, including the identification, preservation, collection, review, and production of documents and electronically stored information (ESI).
• Coordinate litigation holds and other preservation activities, including custodian identification, issuance and tracking of legal hold notices, and coordination with relevant business, technology, records-management, and other personnel.
• Maintain accurate litigation matter information and track significant developments, deadlines, case status, and other key information.
• Assist in the preparation of periodic litigation reports, management presentations, and other reporting for senior management and the General Counsel.
• Support internal investigations and responses to regulatory and governmental inquiries, including document collection, information management, factual research, and coordination among relevant stakeholders.
• Partner with Litigation Team attorneys, business personnel, outside counsel, and third-party service providers in connection with litigation, investigations, discovery, and related matters.
• Conduct legal and factual research as needed in support of litigation and investigations.
• Support the development and maintenance of litigation-related policies, procedures, training materials, and continuing legal education programs for the Legal Division and business personnel.
• Identify opportunities to improve litigation processes, information management, reporting, and the effective use of technology.
• Support other litigation, investigation, and legal operations initiatives as needed.
• Education
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Paralegal certification preferred, or substantial relevant litigation paralegal experience.
• Experience
• Minimum of five years of litigation paralegal or comparable litigation-support experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple complex matters, projects, and competing priorities simultaneously.
• Experience with eDiscovery, including the identification, preservation, collection, review, and production of electronically stored information.
• Experience supporting litigation holds, subpoena responses, discovery requests, or other formal legal and regulatory information requests.
• Experience maintaining litigation or matter-management information and supporting management reporting.
• Experience supporting internal investigations or regulatory matters preferred.
• Experience within a large financial institution or other highly regulated organization preferred.
• Familiarity with State Street’s businesses and organizational structure is a plus.
• Skills and Qualifications
• Excellent organizational, project-management, and time-management skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to independently manage multiple time-sensitive matters and competing priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with attorneys, senior leaders, business personnel, outside counsel, and third-party service providers.
• Strong legal research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft 365 and the ability to work effectively with litigation, eDiscovery, matter-management, document-management, legal-research technologies, artificial intelligence, and automation technologies.
• Strong judgment and discretion in handling confidential, privileged, and sensitive information.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively across functions and business units.
• Demonstrated initiative, adaptability, and a commitment to improving processes and ways of working.

About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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