Litigation Legal Assistant - OC

Location: Irvine (Orange County), CA, in-office position

Compensation: $35–$45 per hour (approximately $72,800–$93,600 annualized) DOE

Experience: 3+ years

ABOUT FBFK LAW

For more than 20 years, FBFK Law has been a people-first, entrepreneurial business law firm. With a 150 people across Texas and California, we are growing deliberately under FBFK 2.0, and that growth has been recognized: 18 regional rankings in the 2026 Best Law Firms® guide, #1 Overall Leading Law Firm among Small Firms in Bloomberg Law's 2026 rankings, and a place on Fortune's 2026 America's Most Innovative Companies list. Our Orange County office was named one of the Orange County Business Journal's 2026 Best Places to Work.

THE ROLE

You'll provide day-to-day litigation support from filing through trial and appeal: preparing and finalizing pleadings and correspondence, managing e-filing across federal and state courts, tracking deadlines and court dates, and coordinating the logistics behind depositions, hearings, and trial. You'll work closely with a team of attorneys and paralegals handling business and commercial litigation, employment litigation, real estate litigation, intellectual property litigation, and estate/trust litigation — this is not a personal injury, family law, or immigration practice, and candidates whose litigation background is limited to those areas will not be a fit for the caseload here.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Prepare, proofread, and finalize pleadings, correspondence, and court filings in accordance with court rules and firm standards
• File documents with federal and state courts via e-filing systems (CM/ECF and state portals) and track service of process
• Manage attorney calendars and monitor litigation deadlines — discovery cutoffs, motion deadlines, hearings, and trial dates
• Coordinate logistics for depositions, mediations, arbitrations, and hearings, including court reporters and vendors
• Organize and maintain case files in NetDocs and prepare binders and materials for depositions, hearings, and trial
• Assist with trial preparation, including exhibit and witness coordination and trial notebooks
• Serve as a day-to-day point of contact for clients on scheduling and administrative matters
• Accurately record all time worked, billable and non-billable, on a daily basis