Career Area:
Legal
Job Description:
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When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don't just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer's needs. Join us.
Caterpillar Inc. is seeking an attorney to join the Global Litigation Group of its in-house legal division. The successful candidate will provide legal support on a broad range of pre-litigation and litigated matters involving commercial, products liability, and mass torts litigation. The candidate is expected to be familiar with eDiscovery, legal holds, case strategy, taking and responding to discovery, motions practice, trial experience, and/or appellate practice. This role will work directly with outside counsel on matters, including early case assessments, budgets, and review and management of outside counsel billings. The cases often require the attorney to work with Caterpillar attorneys in other practice areas or personnel in the Global Government and Corporate Affairs Division. The attorney will be responsible for working internally with other Caterpillar attorneys, litigation paralegals, engineers, the eDiscovery group, Legal IT and employee witnesses in a variety of roles, and may be expected to participate on cross-functional teams with other members of the legal department. A successful candidate should be comfortable counseling business managers about risk management and commercial issues.
Duties and responsibilities may include:
Providing day-to-day legal counseling on commercial, products liability and mass torts matters;
Drafting, reviewing and monitoring pleadings, briefs and discovery;
Working with paralegals and witnesses to develop cases for trial;
Counseling business clients on litigation risks, as necessary, and providing training;
Working with insurers and Caterpillar Risk Management personnel to establish insurance coverage and working with accounting teams on case reserves;
Working with outside counsel and leading teams of attorneys to develop case strategy; and
Maintaining excellent relationships with outside counsel and work to be a valued member of the Caterpillar litigation program.
We are seeking candidates with a minimum of 5-8 years of active litigation experience, including significant roles in litigated cases, experience managing complex and high exposure litigation matters, experience and familiarity with eDiscovery who is a self-starter used to handling cases with relative independence. In terms of background and experience, the candidate should have:
A J.D. from an accredited law school;
Strong academic credentials;
Membership in the State Bar of any U.S. State and qualifications for admission as in-house counsel under the Texas and/or Illinois rules;
Minimum 5-8 years' experience in legal practice at a top law firm, clerkship, and/or in-house litigation experience;
Familiarity and strong background on eDiscovery issues;
Superior research, writing and communication skills;
The ability to work effectively and efficiently with outside counsel;
Travel is required, and the frequency varies according to the matters on the attorney's docket.
In-person office presence is required.
Additional Information:
Domestic relocation is available. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers .
Employee benefit details:
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just an hourly wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of a monthly bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details
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