Description:
Position Summary...Join our Commercial Litigation team as Senior Counsel and Director, Litigation Operations! This dual role is responsible for managing a docket of consumer and commercial litigation while leading the litigation operations function for Walmart's Commercial, Consumer & Employment Litigation Team. The person in this role will combine hands-on litigation management with people leadership and process excellence. The right person will be an experienced litigator who is passionate about building consistent, scalable, and defensible litigation practices across matters and jurisdictions.
What you'll do...
As Senior Counsel managing litigation:
As Director of Litigation Operations:
What you'll bring…
As Senior Counsel managing litigation:
- Develop legal strategies for commercial and consumer litigation matters
- Retain and manage qualified outside counsel
- Set budgets and closely manage litigation expenses
- Provide actionable, clear, and timely advice to internal clients
- Recognize operational risks and work with stakeholders to remediate them
- Identify emerging litigation trends, spot issues across matters, and ensure consistency of positions
As Director of Litigation Operations:
- Lead and inspire a team of paralegals and other legal professionals
- Establish and enforce standard litigation management protocols and playbooks to drive consistency across jurisdictions and matters
- Champion data-driven matter management, including metrics for cycle times, outcomes, and value
- Ensure teamwide consistency in matter hygiene, such as correct opening, closing, categorization, and reporting
- Develop routine practices that leverage the team's tech stack and artificial intelligence tools
What you'll bring…
- At least seven years of experience in commercial and/or consumer litigation
- At least three years of experience in legal process design and project management
- Leadership with experience building, mentoring, and inspiring teams of legal professionals
- An array of professional experiences, including private practice, in-house counsel, and/or a judicial clerkship
- Thought leadership thinking critically about the law, staying abreast of changes in the legal landscape, and contributing meaningfully to legal discourse and scholarship
- Communicating complicated legal principles in a way that is easily understood and delivers decisive advice that can be acted upon by busy non-lawyers
- Serving as a technologist and early adopter
- The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and work with a sense of urgency
- Excellent legal writing
- Consistent good judgment and keen instincts
- Friendly with a sense of humo