Scheduling Paralegal

Key Responsibilities

• Effectively manage a case load of 75 – 100 cases.
• Schedule hearings, trials, depositions, and mediations.
• Schedule client meetings including discovery meetings, deposition prep, and trial prep.
• Maintain case notes regarding scheduling in case management program (Filevine).
• Accurately manage attorney’s calendar.
• Verify and confirm attorney’s appointments daily.
• Draft deposition notices, hearing notices, and scheduling orders.
• Prepare client letters, supplemental demand letters, and misc. correspondence.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Proficient in personal injury law involving motor vehicle accidents.
• Excellent time management, multi-tasking, and critical thinking skills.
• Detail oriented with exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Previous experience working in a fast-paced high-volume environment (minimum of 2 years, 5 preferred) working in high volume personal injury case litigation.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Outlook, Adobe, and Case Management (Filevine).
• Working knowledge of common deadlines and protocols of personal injury litigation.
• Professional appearance and behavior.
• Able to work overtime as required in order to timely accomplish work expectations.

Physical Requirements

• Office environment with normal business hours necessary to satisfactorily perform job functions.
• Stationary Position – Must be able to remain in a stationary position up to 50% of the time.
• Occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, meeting rooms, office machinery, etc.
• May occasionally ascend/descend the stairs to get to other floors, cafeteria and parking area.
• Constantly operate a computer and other office machinery such as a copy machine/printer.
• Occasionally move supplies weighing up to 10 pounds for various presentation and event needs.
• Communicate, detect, converse with, discern, convey, express oneself, exchange information.
• The ability to observe details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

Benefits And Perks

• Medical, dental, vision.
• Company paid Life and AD&D Insurance.
• Company Paid STD (with no waiting period) and LTD Insurance.
• Option to purchase additional Life and AD&D Insurance.
• Voluntary Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital Indemnity Coverage.
• 401(k) with company contributions.
• Paid Time Off.
• 10 Company Holidays.
• Tuition Reimbursement.