Legal Assistant

Description

As a legal assistant at Dordick Law, you'll be working with an exceptionally talented team of dedicated legal practitioners. We offer a competitive salary (based on your qualifications and experience) as well as a handsome benefits package that includes our group health, vision, and dental coverage (all 100% paid by the firm), paid sick time, PTO, as well as a 401k program. We also offer bonus pay, professional development assistance, FSA/DCFSA, EAP, electric vehicle charging, and the opportunity to attend our annual trial college in Los Cabos, Mexico!

Key Responsibilities

• Clearing depositions for clients' depositions / pre-depositions / pre-deposition calls
• Contact providers for depositions / pre-depositions / pre-deposition calls
• Completing portions of the 2034 FROG questionnaire / verification forms
• Creating discovery charts
• Serving subpoenas for records / depositions
• Requesting dismissals / requests for default (with direction)
• Preparing IDC statements / forms
• Creating discovery shells, deposition summaries, and discovery response summaries
• Obtaining court call / court connect for hearings
• Executing stipulations to continue trials, etc.
• Proposing notices of joinder to depositions
• Proposing supplemental discovery to defendants (sets 1 and 2, when due)
• Servicing durable medical equipment (DME) - responses / objections / oppositions
• Obtaining mediator availability
• Uploading conforming copies of initial case documents to CMSS
• Serving complaints along with statement of damages (all city or Cal West)

Required Skills & Experience

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in litigation
• A college degree unless your experience exceeds 5 years
• Adaptability in Office365
• Familiarity with California Code of Civil Procedure and local rules
• Experience with CRM/CMS
• Bilingual Spanish is a plus but not required

Pay

$39 - $45 per hour