Paralegal

Job Description

Job Description

Salary: Up to $80k

We seek a Bilingual English/Spanish Personal Injury Paralegal to join our Personal Injury team in Freehold, NJ. If you are committed to winning, maximizing client recovery, and enhancing our clients quality of life, this is the place for you!

The successful candidate will possess and be responsible for the following:

• Provide administrative support to the lawyer to enhance the law office's 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 75.
• 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 the attorney with deposition calendaring and ensure court dates are maintained.
• Compose e-mails and correspondence.
• Monitor deadlines and be proficient in maintaining the law office calendar.
• Prepare the 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 with New Client Team).
• Research as needed.
• Maintain case status notes in our case management system.

The successful candidate will possess the following requirements:

• High School Diploma, Paralegal Certificate, or equivalent.
• Possess at least five years of working experience as a legal assistant or paralegal in the personal injury area of law.
• Familiarity with New Jersey e-courts and N.J. court rules and legal procedures.
• Satisfactory knowledge of the day-to-day operations of a law office
• Computer literacy with proficiency in M.S. Office and Outlook.
• Fluency in the English and Spanish languages, both verbally and in writing
• Excellent administrative and organizational skills
• Ability to juggle multiple activities and work under pressure.
• Must be willing and able to work in a fast-paced office setting.

Benefits include medical, vision, dental, FSA, life, long-term disability insurance, 401K plan match, and paid time off policy. Bonuses, birthday lunches, holiday parties, and picnics.

We take care of our clients; they take care of us! If you want to make a difference, we want you!