Full-Time
LITIGATION PARALEGAL
Job Summary:
The Litigation Paralegal will work with our attorneys by providing clerical and research support to the cases they are handling to include document preparation, coordination, and review, trial preparation assistance, and other duties, as assigned. This role has moderate supervision as it relates to daily activities and work product production and prioritization.
Englander Fischer is a highly rated AV by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory – the highest available – which is determined by other attorneys in the area and is based on experience, expertise, and commitment to the highest ethical standards. The clients Englander Fischer represents vary from single employee entrepreneurs to large multi-state corporations. Our skilled transactional and trial lawyers have over one hundred (100) years of knowledge and experience. Lawyers are board certified in business litigation, regularly recognized in Super Lawyers and Florida’s Legal Elite, and known for focused, client-based advocacy.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Meet with attorneys, clients, staff, and other professionals to discuss assigned cases or projects
- Draft legal documents such as motions, notices, briefs, pleadings, appeals, wills, contracts, etc.
- Research and analyze statutes, regulations, recorded judicial decisions, legal articles, treaties, constitutions, legal codes, and other legal sources
- Work on tasks of varying complexity within the scope of the Paralegal role while continuing to grow in this area and begin to take on more complex assignments/projects as time goes on
- Document and exhibit review and preparation
- Ability to discern important details in client and opposing party documents
- Prepares, organizes, stores, and retrieves case files, which may include evidence, exhibits, depositions, pleadings, exhibits, and other items
- Maintain a good working relationship with attorneys, other paralegals, staff, and management
- E-filing documents within the e-filing portals of the local, state, and federal courts
- Schedule meetings and hearings
- Maintains records regarding billable hours spent on specific cases
- Heavy calendering
- Performs other related duties, as assigned.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Clearly understand legal terminology and principles
- Excellent interpersonal and client service skills
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Function well in a high-paced and sometimes stressful environment
- Manage multiple priorities
- Maintain confidentiality, and exercise discretion and good judgment.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software
- Proficient with Adobe Software
Education and Experience:
- Associate degree in Paralegal Studies or related field required; Bachelor’s degree in Paralegal Studies or related field preferred.
- Florida Paralegal Certification
- Experience with Action Step software preferred, but not required.
- 3 to 7 years’ experience as a paralegal in a litigation environment
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