Paralegal/ Legal Assistant

Need for a litigation paralegal with excellent organizational skills and experience managing voluminous case files. The primary areas of focus will be defense litigation, personal injury, and administrative law. The ideal candidate will have experience billing as an insurance defense paralegal and have strong written and oral communication skills. A positive and professional demeanor is required at all times in the office. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES "Essential functions" are primarily job duties that incumbents must be able to perform unassisted or with some reasonable accommodation made by the employer. Document management of the client’s files, expert documents and communications, production responses, depositions, and other discovery documents Responsibility for record ordering, preparing initial responses to discovery for attorney review, preparing documents for production to include redaction and bates labeling, and supplementing discovery Reviews discovery production to identify key documents for attorney review, prepare chronology of key events, and ensure proper indexing of the discovery production and evidence Communication as needed with the client, retained expert witnesses, trail court coordinator, records retrieval company, forensics company and other service providers as part of the case workup Conduct background investigations and searches of parties and witnesses as well as perform searches on government websites Research as needed on Facebook, Instagram, Google Earth or other websites in support of the case workup Involved in scheduling hearings, mediations and trials, and coordinating key dates with other law firms, witnesses, and service providers Assist in the preparation of pleadings, motions, affidavits, exhibits, orders and all notices Acts as a team player to accomplish daily tasks Completes the input of billing daily Job Type: Full-time Benefits 401(k) Dental insurance Employee assistance program Flexible spending account Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Vision insurance Schedule: 8 hour shift Monday to Friday Education Associate (Required) Experience Paralegal: 3 years (Required) Work Location In person #J-18808-Ljbffr