Docketing Specialist

O’Hagan Meyer, a national insurance defense litigation firm with more than 400 attorneys across 26 offices, is seeking a full-time Docketing Specialist to join its Chicago, IL office. We’re looking for resourceful, detail-oriented candidates who care about the little things, communicate clearly, follow established procedures, and ask questions when unsure. The Docketing Specialist is responsible for calendaring court dates, tracking deadlines, and maintaining dockets across multiple jurisdictions, as well as providing regular reports of response dates and supporting special projects and research assignments in collaboration with legal support staff and other firm docket specialists.

Primary duties include, but are not limited to:

• Perform litigation docketing for state, federal, appellate, bankruptcy, and administrative matters.
• Docket matters in the Circuit Court of Cook County and collar county courts (DuPage, Lake, Will, Kane, and McHenry), the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of Illinois, the Illinois Appellate and Supreme Courts, and the Seventh Circuit.
• Apply the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, Illinois Supreme Court Rules, Cook County Circuit Court rules and General Orders, and N.D. Ill. Local Rules when calculating deadlines.
• Support docketing for other offices, states, and practice areas (e.g., trademark, IP, federal court nationwide), applying each jurisdiction’s rules