Paralegal

About This Role

Providing assistance to lawyers in various types of litigation is the core of this paralegal position. The role involves preparing legal documents, conducting research, compiling data from legal references, and maintaining case files and meeting minutes.

Responsibilities

• Gather, organize, summarize, and index documents from various sources for upcoming, pending, and potential litigation
• Draft correspondence, discovery requests and responses, and other related documents as necessary and assigned
• Prepare and maintain trial notebooks and documents to be used at hearings and proceedings
• Maintain all initial filings of legal records, briefs, and correspondence for the assigned cases
• Research law sources by identifying applicable statutes, judicial decisions, and codes
• Compose legal abstracts by summarizing depositions, arbitrations, hearings, trials, and other transcripts
• May act as an official Notary Public for the Firm
• May perform cite checking and/or bluebooking as assigned
• Provide various administrative support duties for the attorneys
• Work on special projects and project teams for the Firm as assigned
• Contribute to team effort to accomplish related results as needed
• Perform other duties that may be assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school with a certification as a paralegal
• At least three to five years of experience, preferably in a law firm or other comparable combination of experience and education
• Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily and maintain a high standard of ethical conduct
• Excellent interpersonal skills for interactions with all levels of Firm personnel, clients, and vendors
• Detail-oriented with the ability to multitask
• Strong organizing and researching skills, including Internet research
• Strong client service orientation
• Excellent communication and decision-making skills
• Possess and apply a broad basic knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of the law as it applies to the organization
• Experience working with the Internet, computer databases, Windows, word processing, database, and spreadsheet programs in litigation support, legal research, and library applications
• Ability to work independently and as a team player
• Proven ability to maintain composure, high accuracy, and professionalism in a fast-paced, deadline-driven legal environment
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, documents containing legal terminology or governmental regulations
• Ability to draft business correspondence and reports as assigned, demonstrating excellent English language skills and attention to detail
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from lawyers, clients, and employees of the firm
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common factors, and decimals
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
• Basic knowledge of PC and Microsoft Office products such as PowerPoint and Excel and other software programs designed for litigation support
• Regularly required to sit and exhibit finger and hand dexterity
• Frequently required to talk or hear
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus

Important Details

• Schedule: Must be regularly available and willing to work at least 7.5 hours per day, 37.5 hours per week; must be available and willing to work overtime, weekends, and holidays as determined necessary or desirable to meet business needs
• Travel: Must be available and willing to travel to such locations and with such frequency as determined necessary or desirable to meet business needs

About the Company

Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP is an equal opportunity employer.