What are the responsibilities and job description for the Paralegal- Personal Injury position at Stark & Stark?
Job Description
Since 1933, Stark & Stark has developed innovative legal solutions to meet our client's needs. With experienced attorneys in more than 30 practice areas, and a philosophy of putting the law to work for our clients is the basis for building and maintaining our practice.
Stark & Stark is actively recruiting for a Paralegal- Personal Injury, for our Yardley, PA office. The right candidate will have the extraordinary opportunity to continue their professional development in a challenging, but collegial, environment.
Responsibilities
Stark & Stark is committed to the health and well-being of its staff members. The firm offers a full range of benefits, including traditional major medical and hospitalization coverage, a prescription plan, a dental plan, a vision plan, life insurance, accidental death, and dismemberment coverage, a profit sharing, and a 401(k) plan, paid vacation, and paid holidays.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Stark & Stark’s policy is to make employment decisions based on merit, ability, and competence. Except where required by law, employment practices shall not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or staff member’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or any other characteristic provided by law. Qualified minorities, females, veterans, and attorneys with disabilities are encouraged to apply. It is also our policy to provide a work environment that is free of harassment of any kind, including that which is sexual, age-related, or ethnic.
Mansfield Rule
As part of its continued efforts to actively recruit and advance the recruitment, development, and promotion of diverse lawyers, Stark & Stark is participating in Diversity Lab’s Midsize Mansfield Rule initiative. The Mansfield Rule is named for Arabella Mansfield, the first woman admitted to practice law in the United States. It measures whether law firms affirmatively consider diverse lawyers for hiring, advancement, and significant leadership roles.
Under this initiative, we strive for a candidate pool consisting of at least 30% women, attorneys from underrepresented racial and/or ethnic groups, lawyers with disabilities, and/or LGBTQ attorneys. The Mansfield Rule initiative also includes a commitment by Stark & Stark to be transparent in our internal governance, particularly with our selection guidelines and job descriptions for firm management roles and committees.
Company Description
Since 1933, Stark & Stark has developed innovative legal solutions to meet our client's needs. With experienced attorneys in more than 30 practice areas, and a philosophy of putting the law to work for our clients is the basis for building and maintaining our practice.
Since 1933, Stark & Stark has developed innovative legal solutions to meet our client's needs. With experienced attorneys in more than 30 practice areas, and a philosophy of putting the law to work for our clients is the basis for building and maintaining our practice.
Since 1933, Stark & Stark has developed innovative legal solutions to meet our client's needs. With experienced attorneys in more than 30 practice areas, and a philosophy of putting the law to work for our clients is the basis for building and maintaining our practice.
Stark & Stark is actively recruiting for a Paralegal- Personal Injury, for our Yardley, PA office. The right candidate will have the extraordinary opportunity to continue their professional development in a challenging, but collegial, environment.
Responsibilities
- Preparing and drafting discovery demands and responses, and other legal documents.
- Correspondence and communication with defense counsel, clients, and others relevant parties.
- Managing project timelines, and performing legal research
- Working with clients, addressing issues as to medical treatment and temporary disability.
- Preparing cases for court, limited drafting pleadings, discovery demands and responses and other legal documents.
- Trial preparation.
- Experience in Plaintiff’s Personal Injury matters REQUIRED, with practical knowledge of litigation in Personal Injury, for example, auto and truck accident, etc.…
- Detail oriented.
- The individual should be well organized and able to see an assignment through to completion when given proper direction.
- The right candidate will have a minimum 5 years of experience.
- A comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel and Outlook are REQUIRED.
- Ability to read, write and speak in Spanish is a plus.
- Paralegal Certificate or associate degree required.
Stark & Stark is committed to the health and well-being of its staff members. The firm offers a full range of benefits, including traditional major medical and hospitalization coverage, a prescription plan, a dental plan, a vision plan, life insurance, accidental death, and dismemberment coverage, a profit sharing, and a 401(k) plan, paid vacation, and paid holidays.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Stark & Stark’s policy is to make employment decisions based on merit, ability, and competence. Except where required by law, employment practices shall not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or staff member’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or any other characteristic provided by law. Qualified minorities, females, veterans, and attorneys with disabilities are encouraged to apply. It is also our policy to provide a work environment that is free of harassment of any kind, including that which is sexual, age-related, or ethnic.
Mansfield Rule
As part of its continued efforts to actively recruit and advance the recruitment, development, and promotion of diverse lawyers, Stark & Stark is participating in Diversity Lab’s Midsize Mansfield Rule initiative. The Mansfield Rule is named for Arabella Mansfield, the first woman admitted to practice law in the United States. It measures whether law firms affirmatively consider diverse lawyers for hiring, advancement, and significant leadership roles.
Under this initiative, we strive for a candidate pool consisting of at least 30% women, attorneys from underrepresented racial and/or ethnic groups, lawyers with disabilities, and/or LGBTQ attorneys. The Mansfield Rule initiative also includes a commitment by Stark & Stark to be transparent in our internal governance, particularly with our selection guidelines and job descriptions for firm management roles and committees.
Company Description
Since 1933, Stark & Stark has developed innovative legal solutions to meet our client's needs. With experienced attorneys in more than 30 practice areas, and a philosophy of putting the law to work for our clients is the basis for building and maintaining our practice.
Since 1933, Stark & Stark has developed innovative legal solutions to meet our client's needs. With experienced attorneys in more than 30 practice areas, and a philosophy of putting the law to work for our clients is the basis for building and maintaining our practice.
