Foreclosure Paralegal

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Padgett Law Group (PLG) is an elite, full-service creditors' rights law firm with practices in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Alabama, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Illinois. Additionally, PLG offers national bankruptcy, replevin, and loss mitigation services. The firm’s practice provides exclusive representation to institutional clients such as lenders, mortgage servicers, credit unions, banks, hedge funds, investors and other financial services industry stakeholders.  Leveraging technology in our partnerships with forward-thinking clients gives PLG the ability to focus on the aggressive management and processing of delinquent or under performing loans, providing our clients with an edge when curing or resolving these complex legal matters. In 2019, PLG was recognized by The M Report , a leading default services industry publication, as a Top 25 Company to Work For. 

At Padgett Law Group, our mission is simple: to attract and retain the most talented individuals within our industry while delivering high-quality legal services to our clients. We understand our crucial role as our clients strive to provide an ethical and empathetic experience. We contribute to that through our long-standing and recognizable firm culture that is visible during every interaction with PLG—and amongst ourselves. At PLG, we stand on our decades-long tradition of merit, respect, hard work, and excellent results, and we use that foundation for every service we provide. As a firm, we believe that our mission can only be truly realized through investment in our core values of People, Precision, and Performance. 

At Padgett Law Group, we're not just looking for talented employees to join our growing team. We're looking for leaders who cultivate those around them and contribute to our path forward; we're looking for individuals who appreciate our culture and commit to our shared goals; we're looking for people who want to be more than employees, processors, or paper pushers. 

Our vision is to build the most compelling law firm that is home to the industry’s best talent, as we are today and as we grow in the future.

What’s in it for you? Padgett Law Group believes in investing in our employees and ensuring that they have all the resources necessary to succeed - including a competitive, comprehensive, and valuable benefits package. As a full-time PLG employee, you will receive: 

• 4 weeks of PTO from day one (which increases with tenure) 
• Paid Parental and Grandparent Leave
• 7 Paid Company Holidays and your birthday off every year
• Full suite of healthcare insurance options including health, dental, vision, STD, LTD, Accident, Critical Illness, Voluntary Life and AD&D coverage, and more 
• Company-covered Term Life Insurance, AD&D Insurance, and Employee Assistance Program 
• 401k (with company match)
• Extensive Training and Development Opportunities

Position Summary

The Foreclosure Paralegal is responsible for executing critical tasks within the litigation process to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and compliance with all clients, state, and federal requirements. This role supports the overall operations of the foreclosure department by handling daily casework, coordinating with internal teams, and ensuring timely file progression. The position plays a key role in maintaining service quality and adhering to performance standards. This will be on-site in our Memphis location.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:  

• Drafting, preparing, assignments, motions, affidavits, and various other legal documents. 
• Ensuring timely, courteous, and thorough responses to a heavy volume of email correspondence. 
• Developing and maintaining congenial relationships with business associates and clients. 
• Providing exceptional customer service to clients at every level of interaction. 
• Providing support to attorneys in a high volume, time-sensitive atmosphere. 
• Preparation and filing of status updates prior to scheduled hearing 
• Providing regular and timely client status updates, as well as continual follow-up on outstanding documents and/or services. 
• Review expired Notices of Default and communicate with the client to ensure most updated figures have been received 
• Monitor for executed client declarations 
• File client declarations with the court 
• Researches and analyzes law sources such as statutes, recorded judicial decisions, legal articles, treaties, constitutions, and legal codes.  
• Prepares legal documents such as briefs, pleadings, appeals, contracts, initial and amended articles of incorporation, stock certificates and other securities, buy-sell agreements, closing papers and binders, deeds, and trust instruments for review, approval, and use by VP, general counsel.  
• Investigates facts and laws to determine causes of action and to prepare case documents accordingly.  
• Performs other clerical duties such as scheduling appointments, providing information to callers, taking dictation, composing and typing routine correspondence, and reading and routing incoming mail  
• Prepares affidavits of documents and maintains document file 

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Experience with client systems such as LPS, Tempo, Vendorscape and others is preferred. 
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• Must be committed to providing exceptional customer service. 
• Ability to communicate courteously and effectively with borrower, clients, attorneys, other internal employees, and outside parties. 
• Must be able to work with others in a congenial and team-oriented manner. 
• Must possess exceptional organizational skills; the position requires the ability to multi-task and be adaptable to continual change. 
• Attention to detail is a must. 
• High-level proficiency in MS Office suite. 
• Proficiency in internet research activities. 
• Good understanding of the legal process surrounding foreclosure preferred 

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.  

• Prolonged time sitting at a desk typing, using, and looking at a computer. 

Note

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) of this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. 

To perform this job successfully, the employee(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.