McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC

Foreclosure Legal Assistant

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Alabama

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Salary

💰 $21 - $25 per hour

Job Level

JuniorMid-Level

About the role

  • Manage all administrative tasks associated with the legal process of the nonjudicial foreclosure process, including editing and preparing correspondence, advertisements/postings, and other legal documents.
  • Maintain paper and electronic files and update the firm’s internal case management system and client systems.
  • Field calls and correspondence from clients, borrowers, courts, and other outside parties; ensure timely and courteous responses to high volume email correspondence.
  • Draft, prepare, and format memoranda, correspondence, advertisements/postings, deeds, assignments, and various other legal documents.
  • Ensure effective and timely delivery of outgoing mail, messenger deliveries, overnight deliveries, and facsimiles.
  • Develop and maintain congenial relationships with business associates and clients; provide exceptional customer service.
  • Review title reports and recorded documents; coordinate with title contacts to complete recordings and retrieve missing documents.
  • Provide support to attorneys in a high volume, time sensitive atmosphere; proofread legal documents as required.
  • Provide regular and timely client status updates and continual follow-up on outstanding documents and services.
  • Assist with check down of closed, active, and hold files including forwarding invoices of foreclosures fees and costs, creating chronologies, and retrieving documents.
  • Perform other duties and responsibilities as needed.

Requirements

  • Minimum associate degree, Paralegal Certificate, or at least 2 years of experience as a legal assistant.
  • Default law firm experience is preferred, but not required.
  • Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Must be committed to providing exceptional customer service.
  • Ability to communicate courteously and effectively with borrowers, clients, attorneys, other internal employees, and outside parties.
  • Must be able to work with others in a congenial and team-oriented manner.
  • Must possess exceptional organizational skills; ability to multi-task and be adaptable to continual change.
  • Ability to read and write at a high level for proofreading and editing purposes.
  • High-level proficiency in MS Office suite.
  • Proficiency in internet research activities.
  • Familiarity with case and document management software.
  • Experience with client systems such as ICE/BKFS, Clairfire, Tempo, Vendorscape and others is preferred.
  • Good understanding of the legal process surrounding foreclosure preferred.
  • Experience with review of title reports and identifying chain of title issues preferred.
  • Ability to proficiently operate computer, fax machine, scanner, photocopier, typewriter, and telephone.
  • All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be authorized to work in the United States.