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Personal Injury Paralegal
Work Model
📍 Union, NJ
Employment
💼 Full-Time Direct
Recruitment Type
🛡️ Direct to HR Pipeline
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITIES:Provide administrative support to the lawyer to enhance law office effectiveness.Communicating with clients, law offices, insurance adjusters, medical offices, and experts.Manage Prelitigation and litigation matters frrom beginning to end .Assist in preparing for depositions, mediations, arbitrations, and trial.Prepare and file complaints, motions, briefs, and arbitration statements; prepare special packages, discovery demands, and answers to interrogatories. Review the discovery provided and summarize deposition testimony.Compose e-mails and correspondence.Monitor deadlines and be proficient in maintaining the law office calendar.Prepare disbursement of settlement funds and request checks from the accounting department.Meet and greet walk in clients and conduct intakes as needed.Answering inquiries from potential new clients.
REQUIREMENTS:At least 5 (five) years of working experience as a Legal Assistant or Paralegal in the personal injury area of law.Familiarity with New Jersey e-courts and N.J. court rules and legal procedures.Satisfactory knowledge of the day-to-day operations of a law officeProficiency in M.S. Office and Case management systems.Fluency in the English and Spanish languages, both verbally and in writing. (Required).Excellent secretarial and organizational skillsAbility to multitask and manage an average workload of 80 cases.Must be willing and able to work in a fast-paced office setting.
Benefits include medical, vision, dental, FSA, life, long-term disability insurance, 401K plan match, and paid time off policy. Bonuses, birthday lunches, holiday parties, and picnics. We have season tickets to the New Jersey Devils if you love hockey!
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