What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Assistant position at Clarity Recruiting?
Personal Injury Paralegal
Our client, a Plaintiff side Personal Injury law firm with 12 offices in New Jersey, is looking to hire a paralegal for their team for an onsite 5 day in office role.
Job Responsibilities :
- Provide administrative support to the lawyer to enhance law office effectiveness.
- Communicating with clients, law offices, insurance adjusters, medical offices, and experts.
- Manage Prelitigation and Litigation matters from start to finish.
- Open and close files. (Medical records, police reports, and more)
- Interact and contact existing clients daily.
- Manage a caseload of up to 80.
- Respond to incoming calls and voicemails daily.
- Assist in preparing for depositions, mediations, arbitrations, and trials.
- Prepare and file complaints, motions, briefs, and arbitration statements; prepare special packages, discovery demands, and answers to interrogatories. Review the discovery provided and summarize deposition testimony.
- Assist attorney with depositions calendaring and maintain court dates.
- Compose e-mails and correspondence.
- Monitor deadlines and be proficient in maintaining the law office calendar.
- Prepare disbursement of settlement funds and request checks from the accounting department.
- Meet and greet walk in clients and conduct intakes as needed.
- Answering inquiries from potential new clients (Intake coordination).
- Conduct research as needed.
- Maintain case status notes in our case management system
Requirements
The successful candidate will possess the following requirements :
