Job Title: Litigation Legal Assistant
Job Status: Full-time | Non-Exempt | Hourly
The Mukerji Law Firm is a personal injury law firm specializing in motor vehicle accidents. Our attorneys and staff are committed to helping our injured clients in ways uncommon in the legal industry and we never stop until they receive the service and support they rightly deserve. We will continue to serve everyone we come into contact with and promise to give our clients the best care so they can focus on healing, taking care of their families, and getting their lives back together.
Responsibilities:
· Ability to multi-task and perform under deadlines.
· Working with legal assistants to ensure deadlines are met and cases are proceeding to trial or mediation on timely basis.
· Preparing for and attending trials - organizing exhibits, files, and all other case documents, coordinating trial set-up and logistics, assisting attorneys in the courtroom by taking notes, handling exhibits, and marking documents referred to by counsel, assisting in the preparation of witness testimony and serve as liaison between trial attorneys and in-house staff.
· Calendaring appointments, deadlines, scheduling meetings, depositions, and mediations.
· Consulting with expert witnesses and vendors.
· Creating, organizing, and maintaining case files.
· Tracking, creating, and maintaining medical bill summaries for each client.
· Writing and responding to discovery and drafting petitions and other non-substantive legal motions.
· E-Filing in State and Federal Court.
· Communicating with clients on a regular basis to keep them apprised of case developments and to ensure they are attending all appointments.
· Copying, scanning, and mailing case documents and correspondence.
· Creating binders for mediations, depositions, and trial.
Qualifications:
· 5+ years experience (within past 3 years) working on personal injury cases as Paralegal.
· Ability to work overtime when necessary.
· Ability to multitask with little to no supervision.
· Excellent writing, organization, and communication skills.
· Paralegal certification (preferred but not required)
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Schedule:
Work Location: In person
Working Conditions
Office environment with normal business hours necessary to satisfactorily perform job functions. Some overtime may be required in order to timely accomplish work demands.
Disclaimer:
This job description is intended to describe the primary duties and functions of the job but is not intended to be all-inclusive of the tasks and duties that may be assigned. Other tasks necessary to the daily functions of the firm may be required of the individual in this position
Job Type: Full-time
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person