Job Description
Job Description
Do you love helping people? We’re hiring a paralegal to assist our legal team in preparing legal documents, filing court pleadings, coordinating law office activity, and keeping our matters moving forward. Applicants should be experienced, highly-organized professionals with great attention to detail. If this sounds like a job you’ll love, apply below.
Compensation:
$60,000 - $70,000 yearly
Responsibilities:
- Take care of administrative tasks such as answering phones and maintaining an organized filing system for all legal documents
- Conduct interviews with clients to gather information about their legal issues
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Draft and prepare legal documents with precision and clarity, ensuring compliance with legal standards.
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Coordinate and manage the filing of court pleadings, keeping our cases on track and organized.
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Maintain and update case files, ensuring all information is current and accessible.
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Communicate effectively with clients, providing updates and gathering necessary information with empathy and professionalism.
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Schedule and coordinate appointments, meetings, and court appearances, optimizing our team's time and resources efficiently.
Qualifications:
- Strong preference for candidates who have completed a paralegal professional certification or have an advanced paralegal education
- At least 3 years of experience in legal services under an attorney or lawyer in a law firm setting
- Candidates should possess high-level organizational skills, and time-management skills
- Talented communicator and writer
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Experience with estate planning, probate, and/or elder law is strongly preferred.
About Company
We help people with some of their most important decisions, so building a good relationship, delivering great results, and taking ownership of the process while helping clients have a great experience is exactly what we do. We are an enterprising estates and trusts firm in Andover, on track for growth. We are a lifestyle firm that believes in achieving a work-life balance. Our current team consists of three attorneys, an administrative assistant, a paralegal, a legal assistant, and an office manager.
We offer health, vision, and dental insurance, disability and life insurance, paid vacation time, paid holidays, and 401(k) retirement with matching.