Legal Support, Litigation

Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience working with legal or related environments.
- Ability to speak and write in English and Portuguese fluently.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working on complex fact-finding, internet technology and general litigation.
- Ability to effectively and efficiently manage numerous cases and/or projects under time-sensitive deadlines.
- Ability to be flexible and adapt in a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative environment.
- Excellent communication skills and a commitment to professionalism and collegiality.
- Effective problem-solving skills and excellent project management skills.
**About the job**:
As a Legal Specialist, you will complete tasks and provide support to the Legal Department on various legal and administrative matters within the scope of a larger project. You will act as a point person for internal or external clients, prepare preliminary drafts of legal documents, create process documentation, and lead training sessions. You will own well-defined projects and handle legal and business/non-legal matters of low to moderate risk of complexity with some guidance including managing information and documentation, conducting legal reviews, advising clients on risks and solutions, and improving processes. You will interact with multiple groups within the Legal Department, with internal stakeholders across Google, and with external parties and articulate legal and operational needs with parties who may have competing priorities. You will engage in the community to improve and sustain our culture and operations - making Google a better place to work.
20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
**Responsibilities**:
- Work alongside cross-functional Legal and non-Legal teams to conduct fact-finding investigations to gather information, documents and data in response to regulatory agencies and other third-parties requests.
- Help scale operations as Google grows. Identify areas for increased efficiency where new or existing technological or/and process solutions can be deployed to creatively solve problems or develop time-saving workflows for medium risk and complexity matters.
- Investigate and respond to consumer complaints, small claims complaints, gather facts and supporting materials/information, prepare responsive letter briefs and collaborate with outside counsel.
- Process legal matters for both internal and external parties, with some guidance.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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