Foreclosure Paralegal

About the role

Padgett Law Group (PLG) is an elite, full-service creditors' rights law firm with practices in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Alabama, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Illinois. The firm’s practice provides exclusive representation to institutional clients such as lenders, mortgage servicers, credit unions, banks, hedge funds, investors and other financial services industry stakeholders. PLG offers national bankruptcy, replevin, and loss mitigation services, leveraging technology to aggressively manage and process delinquent or underperforming loans.

Position Summary

The Foreclosure Paralegal is responsible for executing critical tasks within the litigation process to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and compliance with all clients, state, and federal requirements. This role supports the overall operations of the foreclosure department by handling daily casework, coordinating with internal teams, and ensuring timely file progression. The position plays a key role in maintaining service quality and adhering to performance standards. This will be on-site in our Memphis location.

Responsibilities

• Drafting, preparing, assignments, motions, affidavits, and various other legal documents.
• Ensuring timely, courteous, and thorough responses to a heavy volume of email correspondence.
• Developing and maintaining congenial relationships with business associates and clients.
• Providing exceptional customer service to clients at every level of interaction.
• Providing support to attorneys in a high volume, time-sensitive atmosphere.
• Preparation and filing of status updates prior to scheduled hearing.
• Providing regular and timely client status updates, as well as continual follow-up on outstanding documents and/or services.
• Review expired Notices of Default and communicate with the client to ensure most updated figures have been received.
• Monitor for executed client declarations and file client declarations with the court.
• Research and analyze law sources such as statutes, recorded judicial decisions, legal articles, treaties, constitutions, and legal codes.
• Prepare legal documents such as briefs, pleadings, appeals, contracts, initial and amended articles of incorporation, stock certificates and other securities, buy-sell agreements, closing papers and binders, deeds, and trust instruments for review, approval, and use by VP, general counsel.
• Investigate facts and laws to determine causes of action and to prepare case documents accordingly.
• Perform clerical duties such as scheduling appointments, providing information to callers, taking dictation, composing and typing routine correspondence, and reading and routing incoming mail.
• Prepare affidavits of documents and maintain document file.

Requirements

• Experience with client systems such as LPS, Tempo, Vendorscape and others is preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Committed to providing exceptional customer service.
• Ability to communicate courteously and effectively with borrower, clients, attorneys, other internal employees, and outside parties.
• Ability to work with others in a congenial and team-oriented manner.
• Exceptional organizational skills; ability to multi-task and be adaptable to continual change.
• Attention to detail is a must.
• High-level proficiency in MS Office suite.
• Proficiency in internet research activities.
• Good understanding of the legal process surrounding foreclosure preferred.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

Prolonged time sitting at a desk typing, using, and looking at a computer. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of PTO from day one (which increases with tenure)
• Paid Parental and Grandparent Leave
• Paid Company Holidays and your birthday off every year
• Full suite of healthcare insurance options including health, dental, vision, STD, LTD, Accident, Critical Illness, Voluntary Life and AD&D coverage, and more
• Company-covered Term Life Insurance, AD&D Insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
• 401k (with company match)
• Extensive Training and Development Opportunities