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
  • 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
  • Field calls from borrowers, clients, courts, and other outside parties and respond to email correspondence
  • Develop and maintain relationships with business associates and clients
  • Consistently and accurately update the firm’s internal case management system and client systems
  • Review title reports and recorded documents and coordinate with title contacts to complete outstanding tasks
  • Provide support to attorneys in a high volume, time sensitive atmosphere and provide regular client status updates
  • Assist with check down of closed, active, and hold files including forwarding invoices of foreclosure fees and costs, creating chronologies, and retrieving documents
  • Proofread legal documents and perform other duties 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 proof reading 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 is required
  • All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be authorized to work in the United States