Paralegal

Bluestein Law Firm • Full-time • Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States • $40k - $60k / year • 2m ago

Small Mount Pleasant Law Firm near foot of Ravanel Bridge looking for a full time paralegal. Must have prior personal injury paralegal experience. The job also requires assistance with rental properties.

Job Purpose:
Saves attorney's time by researching, obtaining, compiling, and preparing information. Most of the cases you will be working on are maritime personal injury and marine related workers' compensation cases.

Duties:
* Researches law sources by identifying applicable statutes, judicial decisions, and codes; initiating patent and trademark searches.
* Compiles evidence and supporting information by searching records, discovery documents, transcripts, libraries, and databases; interviewing clients, third parties, and expert witnesses.
* Prepares legal documents for attorney's approval and use by identifying forms and formats; producing text; proofreading; maintaining document control system.
* Begins legal actions by arranging for notice and subpoena service.
* Oversees cases by managing files and documents; coordinating with support services and clients, opposing law firms, and courts; managing court docket calendar; expediting paper flow; maintaining schedules and deadlines; generating status reports, logs, and indexes; processing settlement papers and payments.
* Prepares for trial by preparing trial notebooks, exhibits, and witness files; obtaining jury list and background information; preparing questions for jury selection.
* Prepares witnesses by detailing background information; interviewing witnesses; preparing interview summaries and statements.
* Composes legal abstracts by summarizing deposition, arbitration, hearing, trial, and other transcripts.
* Maintains database by organizing document control; designing retrieval systems; summarizing, coding, and storing documents; updating system.
* Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing publications.
* Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Skills/Qualifications:
Legal Compliance, Research Skills, Analyzing Information , Dealing with Complexity, Administrative Writing Skills, Reporting Skills, Telephone Skills, Multi-tasking, Organization, Legal Administration Skills, Client Relationships

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $40,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year

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