Paralegal / Office Administrator

About the role

Nearby Legal Support of Kansas City, Inc. (“NLS”) is a non-profit law firm dedicated to empowering neighborhoods, reducing blight, and promoting affordable housing in Kansas City’s urban core. We have a seven-year history of working closely with neighborhoods and numerous community partners to abate blight, create affordable housing, and revitalize neighborhoods.

Responsibilities

• Assist attorneys with property-related civil litigation matters, including Abandoned Housing Act, nuisance abatement, quiet title, and other real estate-related cases.
• Prepare, format, file, and organize pleadings, motions, notices, discovery, correspondence, exhibits, and other legal documents.
• Maintain litigation calendars, case deadlines, hearing dates, service deadlines, and internal tracking systems.
• Cook up service of process, publication, title searches, court filings, certified mailings, and related procedural requirements.
• Aid with property, ownership, tax, title, recorder of deeds, and court record research.
• Communicate with courts, process servers, title companies, neighborhood representatives, public agencies, and other external partners.
• Maintain organized physical and electronic case files, including pleadings, correspondence, title materials, photographs, inspection records, and property documents.
• Support the development and refinement of internal legal systems, including templates, workflows, checklists, case tracking tools, and document management practices.
• Attend and assist with neighborhood meetings, community forums, and partner meetings as needed.
• Perform additional duties as assigned by the General Counsel or other supervising attorneys.

Requirements

• Paralegal certificate, associate’s degree, bachelor’s degree, or equivalent relevant legal experience.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple matters, deadlines, and priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to produce accurate, polished work product.
• Ability to work effectively with attorneys, staff, community partners, neighborhood leaders, public agencies, and residents.
• Demonstrated commitment to community development, housing justice, neighborhood revitalization, public interest work, or similar mission-driven work.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Adobe, and general case/document management tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior paralegal experience in civil litigation, real estate, title, housing, land use, municipal, or public interest law.
• Experience with Missouri court filings, e-filing systems, docketing, and litigation deadlines.
• Experience with quiet title, nuisance, abandoned property, foreclosure, tax sale, or other property-related legal matters.
• Familiarity with recorder of deeds records, county property records, tax records, GIS systems, and title documents.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish.
• Prior work with nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, neighborhood groups, or residents in disinvested neighborhoods.
• Experience helping create or improve legal templates, workflows, tracking systems, or case management processes.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Paid Professional Development
• Paid Time Off: Vacation, Sick, and Holidays
• To Apply
• Please submit a resume and cover letter detailing your interest in the position and relevant experience to Brandon Mason, General Counsel for NLS, at Brandon@nls4kc.org.