Paralegal - Family Law
Company: McKINNON LEGAL
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Posted on: October 18, 2024
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Job Description:
Do you love digging into research and helping people? We're
hiring a paralegal to assist our legal team in preparing legal
documents, filing motions, coordinating law office activity, and
conducting legal research. Applicants should be experienced,
highly-organized professionals with great attention to detail. If
this sounds like a job you'll love, apply below.
Responsibilities:
--- Draft legal documents, pleadings, and correspondence such as
interrogatories, subpoenas, deposition notices, complaints,
pretrial orders, legal briefs, and affidavits under the guidance of
a lawyer
--- Hold client interviews to gather information about their legal
problems
--- Coordinate law office activity, including the drafting
subpoenas and coordinating with process servers
--- Help lawyers prepare for trial by preparing and organizing
exhibits, assisting with client meetings, filing motions,
conducting research on legal articles, and organizing and
coordinating witnesses
--- Organize our case filing systems to ensure all documents are
properly sorted and easy to locate, and other administrative duties
as needed
Qualifications:
--- At least 3 years of experience in legal services under an
attorney or lawyer in a law firm setting
--- Strong preference for candidates who have completed a paralegal
professional certification or have an advanced paralegal
education
--- Must have strong interpersonal skills and talent for writing
and grammar
--- Candidates should possess high-level organizational skills, and
time-management skills
--- Candidates must have completed an ABA-approved paralegal
certificate program such as an Associate's degree or proprietary
school program in paralegal studies, Bachelor's degree
preferred
About Company:
McKINNON LEGAL's passion lies in bringing about better solutions
for the family litigation clients we serve. We aspire to expand the
practice to a multiple-lawyer organization to serve more families
going through hard times coping with and resolving a myriad of
issues, including co-parenting, timesharing, the amicable division
of assets acquired during the marriage, support, and other
ancillary matters related to the family. We enjoy bringing people
out of difficult situations and are grateful when they let us know
how our firm has made a huge impact on the trajectory of their
futures. We love bringing resolution to acrimonious situations and
helping post-divorce parties live better.
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