Crescent City Law, LLC
Do you love digging into research and helping people? We’re hiring a Paralegal to assist our legal team in preparing legal documents, filing motions, coordinating law office activity, and conducting legal research. Applicants should be experienced, highly-organized professionals with great attention to detail. If this sounds like a job you’ll love, apply below.
Responsibilities
- Conduct interviews with clients to gather information about their legal issues
- Take care of administrative tasks such as answering phones and maintaining an organized filing system for all legal documents
- Arrange law office activity such as drafting subpoenas and coordinating with process servers
- Assist lawyers in preparing legal documentation, pleadings, and correspondence including correspondence such as interrogatories, subpoenas, deposition notices, complaints, pretrial orders, legal briefs, and affidavits
- Help lawyers prepare for trial by preparing and organizing exhibits, assisting with client meetings, filing motions, conducting research on legal articles, and organizing and coordinating witnesses
- Organizing files
- Docketing/scheduling events
- Filling out legal forms and assisting clients in filling out forms
- Drafting letters and simple court documents for Attorney review
- Writing reports and legal documents for Attorney review
- Thorough legal research into new/novel issues, verifying case law, and reviewing legislation as it develops
- Preparing and responding to discovery
- Communicating with clients to provide updates and gather information
- Assisting Lawyers in court (Trial Assistant)
- Back up for Legal Assistants including but not limited to: checking e-fling, updating files, answering phones, and scheduling
- Other tasks as assigned
Qualifications
- Must have completed an ABA-approved paralegal certificate program such as an Associate’s degree or proprietary school program in paralegal studies, Bachelor’s degree desired
- At least 3 years of experience in legal services under an attorney or lawyer in a law firm setting
- Strong preference for candidates who have completed a paralegal professional certification or have an advanced paralegal education
- Candidates should possess high-level organizational skills, and time-management skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills
Compensation
$30 hourly
About Crescent City Law, LLC
Crescent City Law, LLC opened in 2010 and started the firm by representing the accused in criminal courts. Later, we expanded our practice to traffic tickets. We also help people hide their criminal records with expungements. And, of course, we help people who have been injured because of an accident recover compensation for their injuries.
We are rapidly growing--we grew over 100% in 2021 and foresee an additional 31.6% growth in 2022. We need a star who can play many positions and grow with the firm.