Title Legal Assistant

SUMMARY

Manage administrative tasks including title review, curative, and conveyance processes for GA, AL, MS, and TX. Duties include drafting legal documents, coordinating with staff and attorneys, and providing exceptional customer service.

Responsibilities

• Drafting, preparing, and formatting memoranda, correspondence, forms, affidavits, deeds, assignments, and other legal documents.
• Ensuring the effective and timely delivery of outgoing mail, messenger deliveries, overnight deliveries, and facsimiles.
• Fielding calls from and making calls to outside parties in a courteous and effective manner.
• Ensuring timely, courteous, and thorough responses to email correspondence.
• Developing and maintaining congenial relationships both internally and externally.
• Consistently and accurately updating the firm’s internal case management system, as well as all client systems.
• Reviewing title reports, court websites, and recorded documents.
• Updating Client Systems (Tempo, BKFS, etc.).
• Providing exceptional customer service to clients at every level of interaction.
• Proofreading legal documents as required.
• Providing support to attorneys in a high volume, time sensitive atmosphere.
• Providing regular and timely client status updates, as well as continual follow-up on outstanding documents and/or services.
• Coordinating with title contacts to complete outstanding tasks such as recordings and retrieval of missing documents.

Education & Skills

• Minimum associate degree, Paralegal Certificate, or at least 2 years of experience as an administrative assistant or legal assistant.
• Default law firm experience is preferred but not required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Commitment to providing exceptional customer service.
• Ability to communicate courteously and effectively with internal and external parties.
• Exceptional organizational skills; ability to multi-task and adapt to continual change.
• Self-starter and able to function independently.
• High-level proficiency in MS Office suite.
• Proficiency in internet research activities.
• Familiarity with case and document management software.
• Experience with client systems such as BKFS, Clairfire, and Tempo is preferred.
• Good understanding of the legal process surrounding foreclosure and title preferred.
• Experience with review of title reports and identifying chain of title issues preferred.
• Ability to proficiently operate computer, fax machine, scanner, photocopier, typewriter, and telephone.

Physical Demands

• Frequent sitting for extended periods of time.

Work Environment

• Normal office working conditions, with quiet to moderate noise level within the work environment.

COMPENSATION

A salary commensurate with experience and accomplishments.

APPLICATION INFORMATION

To apply, submit your resume in confidence. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for further consideration. No employment sponsorship or support will be given for this position. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLP will not consider any employment immigration sponsorship or support. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States now and in the future. The company does not provide visa sponsorship or any immigration support (including STEM OPT training plan) for this position. Because of the high volume of calls received, only qualified candidates will be contacted for consideration.