Civil Litigation Paralegal at Klie Law Offices in Remote

Civil Litigation Paralegals perform substantive legal work under the direction of one or more attorneys in the office. A Civil Litigation Paralegal’s primary goal is to support our Civil legal team, which mainly focuses on personal injury and employment law cases in the litigation stages by conducting legal research, reviewing/analyzing/summarizing evidence, drafting memos, pleadings, motions, and orders, as well as preparing for hearings and trials.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with clients, experts, and other parties to provide updates, gather information, and answer basic questions about the status of the case.
• Lead discovery meetings with clients.
• Manage and monitor case progress, deadlines, and important timeframes/milestones.
• Review, analyze, and summarize evidence (such as crash reports, medical records, medical bills, subrogation liens, employment files, workers' compensation files, unemployment compensation files, and other various documents received throughout the pre-litigation and litigation process).
• Draft documents such as letters, chronologies, summaries, damage calculations, complaints, motions, responses, replies, discovery requests and responses, orders, notices, mediation statements, and other various documents needed throughout the litigation process.
• Negotiate subrogation liens and repayment of clients’ medical bills.
• Help attorneys prepare cases for depositions, mediations, hearings, and trials.
• Coordinate witness testimony and draft subpoenas.
• Research laws and judicial decisions about current as well as past cases.
• Assist attorneys with conducting research on clients, defendants, and/or witnesses as requested
• Assist attorneys with proofreading and finalizing documents for filing.
• Assist attorneys in the courtroom.
• Maintain records and information in our digital case management system.
• 14. Assist with case wrap-up after settlements. In personal injury cases, verify/negotiate, under the supervision of attorneys, subrogation liens, outstanding medical bills, negotiate reductions on medical bills, track reductions in the medical specials sheet, draft Exhibit B of the settlement statement, draft letters to accompany checks for final payment of liens and bills as directed by attorney
• Enter time in the case management system on a daily basis.
• Ensure that clients receive case status updates on a routine and monthly basis
• Attend quarterly case status meetings
• Assist Civil team in meeting monthly goals
• Meet all court-ordered deadlines

Qualifications

It is not required, but it is preferred that a Paralegal have completed a course of study offered by a college or university, especially for paralegals, and possess certification as a trained paralegal.

• 5 years of paralegal experience required for a remote role.