Legal Assistant

About the role

Do you love digging into research and helping people? We’re hiring a paralegal to assist our legal team in preparing legal documents, filing motions, coordinating law office activity, and conducting legal research. Applicants should be experienced, highly organized professionals with great attention to detail. If this sounds like a job you’ll love, apply below.

Pay

$45,000

Qualifications

• High-level organizational skills, and time-management skills
• Strong preference for candidates who have completed a paralegal professional certification or have an advanced paralegal education
• 3+ years of legal service experience under an attorney or lawyer in a law firm setting
• Talented communicator and writer
• Must have completed an ABA-approved paralegal certificate program such as an Associate’s degree or proprietary school program in paralegal studies, Bachelor’s degree desired

Responsibilities

• Gather information about legal issues from the client in interviews
• Prepare legal documents, correspondence, and pleadings such as complaints, interrogatories, subpoenas, deposition notices, pretrial orders, legal briefs, and affidavits, under the supervision of a lawyer
• Arrange law office activity such as drafting subpoenas and coordinating with process servers
• Work with lawyers to prepare for trial by conducting research on legal articles, preparing and organizing exhibits, organizing and coordinating witnesses, filing motions, and assisting with client meetings
• Perform administrative duties such as answering phone calls and keeping our case filing system organized so all documents are readily accessible