Lead Advanced Records Center Paralegal - Best Best & Krieger LLP

Best Best & Krieger LLP is a nationally recognized law firm focused on delivering effective and client-service oriented solutions to complex legal issues facing public agencies, businesses and individuals across the U.S. BBK is proud to trace the firm's success back to the groundwork of professionalism and community service laid by its founders 135 years ago. Today, with nearly 250 attorneys in offices throughout California and in Oregon and Washington, D.C., we efficiently and meaningfully assist our clients with complex, multi-disciplinary issues and provide creative solutions.

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SUMMARY:

The Advanced Records Center (ARC) Lead Paralegal performs a variety of substantive legal work focused on the California Public Records Act (CPRA) for public agency clients. This position may be based out of any of the BBK offices.

The Lead Paralegal works directly with public agency staff members and BBK relationship attorneys on all aspects of CPRA requests, which includes:

• Analyze CPRA requests and assisting public agency staff to determine the scope of records to be collected and reviewed.
• Create search parameters for the public agencies to conduct physical and electronic searches for records.
• Supervise review of records by ARC paralegals to identify responsive records and separate responsive records from exempt or privileged records.
• Develop and oversee quality assurance standards for the identification and redaction of personally identifiable information (PII), confidential information, and legally protected data, ensuring consistent application of privacy requirements, statutory exemptions, and client-specific protocols across all document review projects.
• Prepare written responses for the public agency client to provide to the requester, or sending responses directly to requesters if directed by the public agency.
• Track deadlines for providing written responses and productions of records for CPRA requests.
• Respond to questions from public agency staff and BBK relationship attorneys regarding the CPRA.
• Respond quickly to questions and concerns from public agency clients regarding CPRA requests.