Conagra Brands

Associate Litigation Support Specialist

Chicago, Illinois Full time

Reporting to the VP and Chief Counsel, you will play a key role in supporting litigation and discovery processes across the organization. You will manage legal holds, coordinate with internal teams and external partners, and ensure compliance with discovery workflows. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment and enjoys balancing detail-oriented tasks with problem-solving.

Your Impact

  • Support ongoing operation of legal holds and use of third-party legal hold system (Exterro) to manage and track compliance with legal holds, including communication with custodians, IT, outside counsel, and other internal stakeholders.
  • Manage e-discovery processes to support litigation matters and responses to subpoenas, including document preservation, collection, data transfer, and review processes.
  • Coordinate with IT, HR, in-house legal team, other corporate functions, third-party e-discovery vendors (such as Epiq), and outside counsel to facilitate discovery and litigation-related activities.
  • Support litigation team’s matters and as needed, the broader in-house legal team’s matters, including coordinating with outside counsel, third-party vendors (such as Epiq), IT, and other corporate functions on discovery and investigations.
  • Support proactive management of discovery and litigation-related expenses, coordinating with corporate procurement employees, discovery vendors, and manager as needed. Support tracking and reporting on discovery-related spend.
  • Maintain awareness of industry best practices for e-discovery project management. Make recommendations for process improvement, where appropriate.
  • Other support activities as directed by manager.

Your Experience

  • Associates degree required; legal studies or related field preferred.
  • 2+ years of experience in litigation support, legal operations, or a similar role.
  • Preferred experience in a law firm or in-house legal department, or with an e-discovery services provider.
  • Strong understanding of e-discovery management, litigation processes, and discovery workflows.
  • Strong understanding of e-discovery tools for data collection, processing, document review, and secure transmittal of data and documents, such as Relativity and Microsoft 365 e-discovery tools.
  • Strong organization, analytical, and communication skills.
  • Ability to build relationships with internal and external constituents.
  • Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment.

Number of Days in Office: 3
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Compensation 

Pay Range:$59,000-$78,000

The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

Our Benefits

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

  • Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement

  • Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan

  • Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement

  • Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

Our Company

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.