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• Manage your time to ensure that billable hour targets (120 per month) are met or exceeded • Communicate with clients, experts, and other parties to provide updates and gather information; answer basic questions about the status of the case • Monitor case progress, deadlines, and important time frames/milestones • Draft documents, indexes, and chronologies; prepare marital settlement agreements; draft pleadings, motions, and court documents; fill out legal forms; write reports, etc. • Help attorneys prepare cases for mediations/hearings/trials • Manage discovery: prepare and organize discovery and responses to discovery demands • Research laws and judicial decisions about current as well as past cases • Assist attorneys in the courtroom as needed • Enter billable and non-billable time in the case management system contemporaneously
Compensation:
$64,000-$90,000 per year
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