Paralegal Administrator

Overview

Nelson Mullins, an AmLaw 100 Law Firm, is seeking a Paralegal Administrator to support the Paralegal Services team. The Paralegal Administrator provides day-to-day guidance to the paralegal coordinators to serve as a key support to the Paralegal Manager. This role helps ensure consistent onboarding, training, workflow coverage, and adherence to firm policies while monitoring performance, workload distribution, and service delivery across assigned practice groups.

A Day in the Life

This role supports the Paralegal Manager in the day-to-day oversight of the Paralegal team, including managing, coaching, and mentoring paralegal coordinators. Responsibilities include assisting with performance evaluations, recruiting, and compensation processes, while serving as a liaison between coordinators, management, attorneys, and the paralegal committee. The position also monitors team workloads, coordinates staffing coverage, and identifies work allocation opportunities to ensure continuity of service. Additionally, this role helps assess ongoing training needs, partners with management and training resources to support development initiatives and communicates firm policies and procedures while appropriately escalating team concerns and operational issues.

We Know You

The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor’s degree and at least eight years of paralegal experience, along with demonstrated experience in coaching, training, mentoring, or other leadership responsibilities. Candidates should have a strong understanding of law firm timekeeping practices, utilization concepts, and professional standards, as well as the ability to manage competing priorities, coordinate team coverage, and make sound recommendations regarding workload distribution and overtime needs. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Outlook, and Excel, along with experience using matter management and document management systems, is required.

Who We Are

With more than 1,000 attorneys, policy advisors, e-discovery professionals, and other business professionals across offices in California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and throughout North Carolina and South Carolina, Nelson Mullins has strong roots in the business community and an appreciation for new directions in the business world.