Litigation Paralegal – Hybrid (Dublin, OH)

Oliver Law Office | Full-Time | Personal Injury · Wrongful Death · Product Liability · Mass Torts

Are you the person who knows exactly what is due, when it is due, and what has to happen before it is? Do discovery deadlines make you organized instead of anxious?

Do you like technology, want to use AI well, and get frustrated working somewhere that still does everything the way it was done in 2012?

If so, you might be the Litigation Paralegal we are looking for.

Why Oliver Law Office?

Award-Winning, Woman-Led Firm

Oliver Law Office is a successful and rapidly growing, woman-led Personal Injury & Wrongful Death law firm headquartered in Dublin, Ohio. Founded in 2000 by CEO Jami S. Oliver, our mission is to provide the ultimate client experience through unparalleled communication and unrelenting advocacy.

• Named in Best Law Firms in America by U.S. News, 2023 through 2027
• Jami S. Oliver named Lawyer of the Year for Product Liability – Columbus for 2024 and for Medical Malpractice for 2027.
• Jami S. Oliver selected to three 2027 Super Lawyers lists: Top 50 Columbus, Top 50 Women in Ohio, and Top 100 Ohio

We handle complex, high-stakes cases including automobile and trucking collisions, defective products, nursing home/med mal and mass torts involving recalled drugs and defective devices. We value professionalism, strong communication, and a detail-driven approach to every case—and we are growing.

The Role: Litigation Paralegal

This is a new position, created because our filed caseload has outgrown the team. You will be the person who owns the litigation side of our docket—active cases in Ohio common pleas and district courts.

You will not be juggling intake, client relationship management, or settlement disbursement. Those belong to other people here. Your job is to keep filed cases moving: deadlines, discovery, depositions, and trial prep.

You will work in a hybrid environment (currently 3 days in-office, 2 days remote).

What You’ll Do

• Own the litigation calendar—case schedules, discovery cutoffs, dispositive motion deadlines, hearings, and trial dates—and the Filevine task chains behind each of them.
• Draft written discovery and responses from our templates: interrogatories, requests for production, requests for admission, and objections, for attorney review.
• Assemble and verify discovery responses, including gathering documents, coordinating client review and signature, and managing productions.
• Support depositions: scheduling, notices, subpoenas, records for exhibits, court reporter coordination, and summaries. We expect our litigation paralegal to attend depositions and assist the lawyers.
• Prepare medical chronologies and damages summaries for filed cases.
• E-file in Ohio common pleas courts, federal courts, and coordinate with local counsel on out-of-county matters.
• Draft routine motions from our forms—extensions, protective orders, leave to amend—and proposed entries.
• Run trial preparation: exhibit lists, witness lists, trial binders, subpoenas, and logistics.
• Use AI and technology inside our approved tools and templates to draft faster, summarize records, and keep data clean—with the judgment to know what has to be verified before it goes anywhere.
• Keep the file current in Filevine so the whole team is always “in the know.”
• Improve our SOPs—including training videos and Looms—so the next person has it easier than you did.

What We’re Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 3–6 years of civil litigation paralegal experience, plaintiff or defense. Defense-side experience is genuinely welcome here—if you have been running a defense litigation docket and want to work for people instead of carriers, we want to hear from you.
• Demonstrated ownership of a litigation calendar and discovery deadlines on an active docket.
• Hands-on experience drafting written discovery and responses, deposition notices, subpoenas, and routine motions from templates.
• E-filing experience in Ohio courts.
• Comfort with a cloud case management system (Filevine, Litify, SmartAdvocate, Clio, or similar), including automated task workflows—not just document storage.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High level of organization, accuracy, and professionalism.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.
• Our clients are going through some of the worst moments of their lives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Personal injury, wrongful death, product liability, medical malpractice or mass tort experience.
• Filevine specifically.
• Experience through an actual trial, not only cases that settled on the courthouse steps.
• Notary Public certification, or willingness to obtain.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish).

Not Required

A paralegal degree or certificate. Ohio does not license paralegals, and some of the best litigation paralegals in this state came up through firms rather than programs. If you have the experience, apply. If you want certification, we have an education program in place to help pay for it.

Technology and AI

We are serious about this, so we will be specific.

We run Filevine and LeadDocket, we build automated task chains, we draft from our own form library, and we use AI tools inside firm-approved systems and templates.

We are looking for someone who is genuinely eager to use these tools—and who also understands where they stop. If you can explain what you would never let AI touch without verifying it, you are speaking our language. If you have never used AI at work but are excited to learn, say so; we would rather train an eager learner than convert a skeptic.

Personal Qualities

• Exceptional organization & follow-through: You love lists, deadlines, and details—and you hate letting things slip.
• Ownership: Nobody should have to ask you whether the responses went out.
• Grit and determination: You are reliable, proactive, and enjoy solving problems before they turn into fires.
• Curiosity: You want to know why we do it this way, and you will say so when you think there is a better way.
• You are a happy person and are excited to come to work each day with a smile.

Where This Role Goes

We are not hiring a seat-filler. We are hiring the person who will run our litigation team.

The path is Litigation Paralegal → Senior Litigation Paralegal → Litigation Team Lead, with a formal review at twelve months and compensation that moves with it. As our filed caseload grows, this role grows into supervising the paralegals and clerks who support it. If you want to be doing the exact same job in five years, this is not the right fit. If you want to build something and lead it, it is.

What We Offer

We value and reward excellence. The salary range for this position is $72,000 to $80,000, commensurate with experience, plus:

• Eligibility for bonuses and monthly incentive programs
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k) program
• Generous paid time off & holidays
• Paid paralegal certification or other educational advancement benefits, if you want it, plus CLE and professional development
• A hybrid work schedule combining in-office collaboration with remote focus days
• Real technology—Filevine, automated workflows, a form library, and closed-end AI tools you are encouraged and expected to use
• A supportive, collaborative, client-focused environment where high performers grow with the firm

How to Apply

Ready to take the next step in your legal career?

Please email your résumé to [email protected] with the subject line:

“Litigation Paralegal – Oliver Law Office – [Last Name, First Name]”

In your email, please include:

• A case you kept on track that could easily have gone sideways—and what you did.
• One workflow, automation, template, or process you built or improved at a firm. What was broken, and what did you change?
• How you have used AI at work, and one thing you would not use it for.
• Three things you love to do in your spare time.

Attention to detail matters. Applications that do not follow these instructions may not be considered.

Please do not call the firm or contact the CEO directly about this position.

WE DO NOT ACCEPT INQUIRIES FROM PLACEMENT AGENCIES.