Job Description

Salary- 55k- 70K

We seek a Worker's Compensation Paralegal to join our clients team in Trenton, NJ. If you are committed to winning, maximizing client recovery, and improving our client's quality of life, this is your place! Role will be a hybrid schedule.

The successful candidate will possess and be responsible for the following:

• Have experience supporting Prelitigation and Litigation in the Worker's Compensation arena.
• Provide administrative support to the lawyer to enhance law office effectiveness.
• Interact and contact existing clients daily.
• Manage a caseload of up to 80.
• Respond to incoming calls and voicemails daily.
• Assist in preparing for depositions, mediations, arbitrations, and trials.
• 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.
• Assist attorney with depositions calendaring and maintain court dates.
• 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 (Intake coordination with New Client Team).
• Conduct research as needed.
• Maintain case status notes in our case management system.

The successful candidate will possess the following requirements:

• High School Diploma, Paralegal Certificate or equivalent.
• Possess at least five years of working experience as a legal assistant or paralegal in the WC 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 office
• Computer literacy with proficiency in M.S. Office and Outlook.
• Fluency in the English and Spanish languages, both verbally and in writing

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