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Prepares interrogatories, organizes and analyzes discovery materials, including depositions. Coordinates the timely filing of pleadings with the court. Provides paralegal support to attorneys at trial and in the preparation of documents in response to employment and labor matters, including Bus and Police arbitrations, DCR, EEO, PERC and police IAD matters.\nWorks closely with NJ TRANSIT’s IS department to gather and produce electronically maintained January 21, 2026 Version: 4 Page 2 of 3 documents as related to discovery requests/subpoenas issued by courts; reviews the multitude of pages in these electronic documents and creates priviledge logs for deputy review; and ensures that NJ TRANSIT adheres to the legal guidelines and requirements issues by the courts as it relates to electronic information.\nConducts research, investigates, analyzes sensitive, confidential information in support of litigation in all areas handled by the DAG’s office, including employment matters, collections, landlord/tenant and bankruptcy. Summarizes the research, and prepares comprehensive memoranda communicating discussions of legal topics. \nMaintains and organizes the office files and file room. Assures accuracy and confidentiality of data entered into the file databases and the arbitration databases by supervising the input of data by the Senior Legal Secretaries. Reviews and reconciles attorney case tracking reports. Develops and monitors law library and professional services budgets for messenger service, transcription service and special litigation. \nPrepares and reviews leases, contracts and deeds for attorneys. Prepares closing binders and provides paralegal support to attorneys at closings. Reviews title information and acquires title for real estate closings. Reviews maps and survey and processes documents for recording with county register.\nManages the law library, and ensures materials and resource databases are updated. Responsible for acquiring new materials concerning new legal trends that include soliciting input from attorneys and meeting with vendors. Maintains subscriptions and other research tools such as administrative agency advice files, unpublished opinions binders and office brief bank. \nProvides guidance and instruction to clerical support personnel when directly related to the legal functions being performed.\nEducation, Experience & Qualifications\nAssociate's Degree and accredited paralegal certificate from an American Bar Association (ABA) approved paralegal study program. \nFour (4) years of experience as a paralegal in a law firm, legal tribunal or department whose primary function is the research, enforcement, or litigation of legal matters.\nProficiency with Microsoft Office software, including Word and Outlook is required.\nCertifications, Licenses & Registrations\nAccredited paralegal certification from an American Bar Association (ABA) approved paralegal study program.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3249,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"associate","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Public Transport"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-23T15:47:16Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":79,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.84,"p_room":0.945,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":7,"reasons":["conf:4","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nj-transit-senior-paralegal","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nj-transit-senior-paralegal.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T19:52:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":26757,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1762265},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1762265"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnj-transit-senior-paralegal"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnj-transit-senior-paralegal"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnj-transit-senior-paralegal"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/nj-transit-senior-paralegal\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnj-transit-senior-paralegal"}]}