This position is responsible for providing administrative and legal support for our attorneys in litigation, with a focus on family law. Duties include document drafting, typing dictation from attorneys, research, client interaction, monitoring hearing schedules, and managing case files.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Draft affidavits and complaints and attach necessary supporting documentation to prepare files for filing of lawsuits.
- Prepare replies to counterclaims, serve and answer discovery, process consumer disputes and complaints, and draft memorandums of law.
- Prepare requests for extensions of time and prepare continuances.
- Communicate with the client to obtain responses to discovery.
- Summarize discovery responses from adversary attorneys/defendants.
- Work closely with attorneys on escalated matters, arbitrations, trial prep, and witness requests
- Assist in trial preparation, including making, copying and organizing exhibits and compiling exhibit notebooks.
- Record and track deadlines through docketing and calendaring processes
- Negotiate and prepare settlement agreements.
- Ensure files are ready for hearings by reviewing case notes, drafting appropriate motions and orders, and labeling documents.
- Provide case updates via email to clients by monitoring, updating, and reviewing account information regularly.
- Screen telephone calls, incoming mail and other correspondence from court personnel, sheriff deputies, local counsel, defendants, and adversary attorneys
- Monthly online compliance training/testing
- Perform legal research.
- Performs other related duties as assigned by management and/or supervising attorney(s)
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Minimum of 1-3 years of paralegal experience with knowledge of Rules of Civil Procedure a plus.
- Associate degree and/or Paralegal Certification for North Carolina preferred
- Knowledge of hearing or litigation laws with an understanding of the litigation process.
- Intermediate to advanced skill level in Microsoft Office products, including Word, Outlook, and Excel.
- Experience using electronic filing systems.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Proven ability to work in a team.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong ability to analyze and problem-solve.