Junior Paralegal

1 week ago

Tucson, United States Zanes Law Injury Lawyers LLC Full time
Job DescriptionJob DescriptionBenefits:
  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Profit sharing
  • Vision insurance

Zanes Law Personal Injury Lawyers is seeking a full-time Litigation Legal Assistant to join our expanding firm. Ideal candidates will be detail-oriented, highly organized, and efficient. Currently, our litigation team consists of two attorneys who each have 25-years of litigation results and both have a proven track record or seven-figure case resolutions and one attorney with approximately 20 years of experience working on million dollar cases. Each of our litigation attorneys have individually recovered seven-figure case resolutions either at our firm or prior to joining Zanes Law. We regularly litigate large value civil rights cases, wrongful death cases, and catastrophic injury cases.

Experience with Filevine and Outlook is a plus. You will record dates and deadlines from court notices into the firm's case management system, for all relevant events, such as motion submission and return dates, discovery, depositions, and trial. You will create tasks for these events, assigning them to firm personnel. The successful candidate will work in a friendly, collaborative environment and be responsible for coordinating all filings, docketing, and calendaring. Additional administrative duties to assist our Litigation Paralegals will be assigned as needed and this is an excellent opportunity for a candidate with 1-3 years of experience who appreciates an opportunity to learn from and assist our team of experienced Litigation Paralegals.

Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Use of Outlook to add all events to firm calendar and FileVine practice management program
  • Use of Outlook to add all Statute of Limitations dates to firm calendar and FileVine practice management program
  • Assist paralegals with deposition preparation, and medical records summarization
  • Assist paralegals with preparing pleadings, and handling the discovery and disclosure process on Tier 2 and Tier 3 trial cases.
  • Assist the firm's Paralegals with other tasks as assigned
  • Synchronize firm calendars across various programs
  • Ensure firm document system contains all filed case documents
  • Familiarity with court rules in federal and state court related to filing documents
  • Contacting court clerks and chambers to confirm dates
  • Familiarity with local rules for federal district courts and state courts, including individual rules of Judges and Parts
  • File pleadings and paperwork with court to make deadlines
  • Draft correspondence, discovery requests and certain pleadings
  • Correspond with clients, insurance adjusters, doctors and attorneys
  • Serve all documents filed within the courts, discovery, documents produced to clients, opposing counsel, experts, judges and court officials
  • Create notebooks for attorneys pertaining to mediation, hearings, trial and depositions
  • Organize claim files
  • Respond to firm personnel questions about calendared dates and events, court procedures and compliance dates
  • Familiarity with court rules for filings and service of documents, such as service of courtesy copies, font size, spacing, word counts
  • Stay informed on procedural rule changes
  • Management of the firmss conservatorship cases-prepping all paperwork, sending notifications and copies of all paperwork, and maintaining contact with these clients every 4 weeks
  • Maintaining and organizing all the firms Litigation files
  • Any other duties as may be assigned
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
  • Knowledge of PACER, CM/ECF, AZ TurboCourt
  • Knowledge of Federal and Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure, Arizona Civil Practice Law and Rules, Arizona Rules of Court, Appellate Court Rules (Ninth Circuit, Federal and AZ State) and local practices
  • Knowledge of MS Office Suite, Kofax and Filevine Docs Plus
  • Demonstrated ability to complete complex filings in paper and electronic forms
  • Able to work courteously/effectively with others
  • Able to raise potential defects with filings based on experience and knowledge
Experience:
  • Minimum 1-3 years' experience in a high volume Personal Injury litigation office
Qualities:
  • Self-motivated, dependable, able to multitask and work well under pressure.
  • Accuracy and high attention to detail
  • Reliability to be in the office for all workdays.
Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $24.00-28.85 per hour Depending on Experience

Benefits:
  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance
Schedule:
  • 8 hour shift Monday-Friday
Work Location:
In person - 4222 E. Thomas Road, Suite 100, Phoenix, AZ 85018