Personal Injury Paralegal

We are searching for a detail-oriented, organized, and experienced personal injury paralegal to join our legal team. You will prepare briefs, create legal documents such as affidavits, do legal research for trial preparation, and keep case files and other key materials organized and easily available. To draft a factual response to discovery, we need someone with expertise in ordering, evaluating, and summarizing medical documents. You will also have past experience assisting with family settlement negotiations and mediation in order to avoid lawsuits. We want to hear from you if you want to advance your career in the paralegal profession. Responsibilities :

• Talk with service providers or insurers about possible settlements for liens, bills, and medical expenses
• Resolve disputes without going to court by providing legal representation at family settlement meetings and mediation
• Create legal pleadings, communications, and documents such as interrogatories, subpoenas, deposition notices, complaints, pretrial orders, legal briefs, and affidavits with the assistance of a lawyer
• Assist lawyers with trial preparation by organizing exhibits, aiding with client meetings, submitting motions, researching legal publications, and coordinating witnesses
• Organize our case filing systems so that everything is properly categorized and simple to find, as well as perform other administrative tasks as necessary
• Communicate with clients, opposing counsel, medical professionals
• E-filing
• Drafting shells for motions / pleadings
• Creating Medical Summaries and sending to Client before depos
• Assisting with scheduling Depos, mediations, DMEs
• Getting records from Experts
• Preparing docs (jury fees, CMC statements, subpoenas, meet & confers)Calendar discovery deadlines, depositions, hearings, and all hearing-related deadlines
• Trial preparation (binder, exhibits, ect.) Qualifications :
• ABA-approved paralegal certificate program such as an Associate’s degree or proprietary school program in paralegal studies, Bachelor’s degree desired
• Must have strong interpersonal skills and talent for writing and grammar
• At least 3-5 years of experience in legal services under an attorney or lawyer in a law firm setting, preferably specializing in personal injury law
• Candidates should possess high-level organizational skills, and time-management skills
• Certification from the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) is highly preferred
• Knowledge of the Code of Civil Procedure – Discovery
• Familiarity with legal research
• Deadline and detail-oriented
• Spanish Speaking is a must
• Familiar with Windows operating system and Microsoft Office applications
• Comfortable with a paperless workflow Compensation : $27 - $38 hourly
• Communicate with clients, opposing counsel, medical professionals
• E-filing
• Drafting shells for motions / pleadings
• Creating Medical Summaries and sending to Client before depos
• Assisting with scheduling Depos, mediations, DMEs
• Getting records from Experts
• Preparing docs (jury fees, CMC statements, subpoenas, meet & confers)Calendar discovery deadlines, depositions, hearings, and all hearing-related deadlines
• Trial preparation (binder, exhibits, ect.)