Litigation and eDiscovery Paralegal
Dropbox
Dropbox is a Virtual First company. For this role, we are hiring in Zones 2 and 3. Please refer to our Compensation section below to see what neighborhoods fall under each Zone.
Company Description
Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today. Wouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots. The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history. Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.
Team Description
Our Legal, Policy, Trust & Privacy teams help keep users and their stuff safe, protect Dropbox, counsel Dropboxers on challenging problems, and are always synced with the Dropbox teams they work with. We deal with novel issues every day while standing up for users and helping the company and product grow.
Role Description
As a Litigation and eDiscovery Paralegal at Dropbox, you’ll be a key member of our legal team, supporting the Litigation team. With no job too big or small, you’ll assist with a variety of projects, including litigation support, matter management, ediscovery, budget management, and more. You must have excellent organizational and communication skills, a strong work ethic, willingness to learn, a positive attitude, and impeccable attention to detail. We’re looking for a proactive self-starter who enjoys working cross-functionally and flexibly in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Prepare intake of new matters, including matter management intake and docketing
- Assist in consumer pre-litigation disputes, including gathering relevant materials and preparing draft responses to litigation threats
- Assist with preparing legal holds and preservation
- Assist with ediscovery, including analyzing discovery requests, third-party subpoenas, and regulatory agency requests, fact gathering, collecting relevant documents and information, documenting ediscovery efforts, and managing ediscovery processes
- Manage case calendars, organize documents and pleadings, prepare team agendas, schedule meetings, and other administrative tasks
- Organize and maintain a knowledge management system for the Litigation team
- Help scale processes for the Litigation team by creating and maintaining internal templates, guidelines, and playbooks
- Assist with managing budgets
Requirements
- 7+ years relevant experience as a litigation paralegal in a law firm or in-house legal department
- Significant ediscovery experience, including with ediscovery tools
- Exceptional written and verbal communication and organizational skills
- Strong attention to detail, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Self-motivator, with the ability to prioritize a variety of competing matters
- Ability to adapt to and thrive in a fast-paced high-pressure environment
- Ability to work effectively in a fully-remote environment with team members located across various time zones
- Comfortable assisting Litigation Counsel on complicated, sensitive, and nuanced issues
- Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with internal and external clients and cross-functional partners and promote the reputation and integrity of the Legal Team and Dropbox
- Excellent computer skills with proficiency in Dropbox, Slack, Google, Microsoft Word, Excel and any practice-related software like Relativity, Google Vault, Onna, Legal Hold Pro, Exterro, etc.
- Associate’s degree, Bachelor's degree or equivalent (including paralegal certificate)
Preferred Qualifications
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Specific experience with the following software tools: Relativity, Google Vault, Onna, Legal Hold Pro, and Exterro
Compensation
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
The range(s) listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE (On-Target Earnings) for this role, subject to change.
Please note, OTE are for sales roles only.
Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
Dropbox takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location/metropolitan area, skillset, and peer compensation. We target most new hire offers between the minimum up to the middle of the range.
Dropbox uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current US Zone locations are as follows:
• US Zone 1: San Francisco metro, New York City metro, or Seattle metro
• US Zone 2: Austin (TX) metro, Chicago metro, California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (outside NYC or DC metro), Washington DC metro, and West Virginia (DC metro)
• US Zone 3: All other US locations
Benefits
Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) plan with a generous company match and immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Volunteer Time Off, and more, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh
- Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance
- Business Travel Protection: Travel medical and accident insurance
- Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food and groceries, and much more
- Parental benefits including: Parental Leave, Child and Adult Care, Day Care FSA, Fertility Benefits, Adoption and Surrogacy Support, and Lactation Support
- Access to over 10,000 global co-working spaces through Gable.to, making it easy to book flexible workspaces for collaboration or individual work
- Quarterly Cell phone and internet allowance
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Disability and neurodivergence support benefits
Additional benefit details are available upon request.