Senior Claims & Litigation Paralegal - Transportation
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Charger Logistics Inc
US
Summary
The Senior Claims & Litigation Paralegal will manage a portfolio of transportation-related litigation and claims while coordinating with in-house and outside counsel. Responsibilities include evidence preservation, drafting litigation documents, managing discovery, and maintaining case files and deadlines.
Job Description
Charger Logistics Inc. is a world-class asset-based carrier with locations across North America. With over 20 years of experience providing the best logistics solutions, Charger Logistics has transformed into a world-class transport provider and continues to grow.
Charger Logistics is seeking an experienced Senior Claims & Litigation Paralegal – Transportation to join our in-house Legal Department. This person will work closely with in-house counsel and outside litigation counsel in managing a significant portfolio of U.S. transportation-related litigation and claims.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and support commercial-auto bodily injury, catastrophic-loss, property-damage and transportation litigation/claims.
- Coordinate immediate evidence preservation following significant accidents, including driver qualification/personnel records, ELD/HOS, telematics/GPS, ECM data, dashcam/video, maintenance/inspection records, dispatch communications, bills of lading, photographs, police reports and witness information.
- Review accident reports, demand packages, medical records and claim documentation and prepare litigation chronologies.
- Under attorney supervision, prepare first drafts of answers, responses, affidavits/declarations, notices, motions and other litigation documents.
- Assist with interrogatories, requests for production/admission, subpoenas, discovery, document collection and legal holds.
- Prepare exhibits, document and medical summaries, deposition/mediation materials and trial binders.
- Maintain complete litigation files and calendars and track pleading, discovery, deposition, mediation, motion and trial deadlines.
- Maintain concise case summaries identifying allegations, damages, exposure, defence strategy, deadlines and next steps.
- Coordinate with outside counsel, monitor case strategy/budgets/deadlines and assist with review of outside counsel invoices and litigation expenses.
- Coordinate with Claims, Safety, Operations, Maintenance, Insurance/Risk Management and other departments.
- 5+ years of litigation, claims or senior paralegal experience. Strong preference for trucking/transportation litigation, commercial-auto liability, catastrophic-loss or insurance-defence experience.
- Experience with a motor carrier, insurer, TPA, self-insured transportation company or transportation-defence law firm is highly desirable.
- Candidate should have strong U.S. litigation/discovery knowledge, legal drafting ability, docket/file management skills and familiarity with trucking evidence and FMCSA-related documentation.
- Competitive Salary
- Healthcare Benefit Package
- Career Growth
- A stable and structured work environment, ideal for experienced law clerks looking for a balanced, well-organized workload.
- Focus on internal legal matters and file support — no external client development or business-generation pressure.
- The opportunity to apply your expertise across a genuinely varied litigation, enforcement, corporate, and regulatory caseload within a growing North American organization.
Charger Logistics' strives to offer the best client focused logistics solution. We start with flexibility. By offering various safe and efficient solutions for all product sizes, weights and sensitivities our limits are minimal. Additionally, our network, various locations throughout North America and fleet size allow us to offer our clients what they need every time.
Charger Logistics was founded in the early 2000's and has grown by leaps and bounds since then. From owning a single truck to owning a fleet of over eight-hundred trucks, two-thousand trailers including reefers, dry vans, chassis, flat beds, step decks and more! A lot has changed however, our commitment to our clients will never change.
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Truck Transportation
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Brampton, Ontario