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Company Description:
Our client is one of Louisiana's premiere personal injury firms and is located in Baton Rouge. This award winning firm is highly invested in providing a best in class experience for their clients while also supporting their employees through great management, tools and opportunities for growth.
The Position:
You will be the right hand person to busy attorney/s who enjoy the work they do for the community. This is a mid-sized law firm that treats their employees well and we are looking to find the right long term employee to join this friendly, helpful team!
You will be supporting our practice by preparing documents like affidavits and legal correspondence, as well as organizing and maintaining files. You will also be asked to file pleadings with court clerks and help prepare for trials by organizing exhibits and assisting with other tasks as required.
Some of the particulars include:
Preparing and organizing documents including affidavits, legal correspondence, court pleadings, briefs, wills, contracts, real estate closing statements, pleadings, appeals, etc.
Meeting with clients, attorneys, and other professionals to talk about case details and prepare for trial.
Investigating facts and laws of cases and searching public records and other resources to prepare cases and determine causes of action
Directing and coordinating law office activity, including delivery of subpoenas
Gathering and analyzing statutes, decisions, and legal articles, codes, documents and other data
Keeping the law library up-to-date by monitoring legal volumes.
The Candidate (You):
This role offers a lot of variety and a candidate with three or more years of personal injury law experience will do well. The Perfect Candidate would have 3+ years of personal injury law experience, court filing experience, be tech savvy and a desire to continue to learn technology and increase efficiencies, comfortable in a paperless environment,
Paralegal certificate, Associates or Bachelors degree preferred, Ability to multi-task and work independently and within a team.
Soft skills needed are: ambition, self initiative, fast learner, team player, excellent follow through and enthusiasm.
If you dont have all of the above, but you do have legal assistant or paralegal work of three plus years or more, send us your resume and why you think you would be able to step in and hit the ground running with this firm.
Compensation is excellent and DOE.
Please send your resume and salary requirements.
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