Legal Assistant
McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Roswell • Alabama • United States
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About the role
- Drafting, preparing, and formatting memoranda, correspondence, advertisements/postings, deeds, assignments, and various other legal documents
- Ensuring the effective and timely delivery of outgoing mail, messenger deliveries, overnight deliveries, and facsimiles
- Fielding calls from borrowers, clients, courts, and other outside parties in a courteous and effective manner
- Ensuring timely, courteous, and thorough responses to a heavy volume of email correspondence
- Developing and maintaining congenial relationships with business associates and clients
- Consistently and accurately updating the firm’s internal case management system, as well as all client systems
- Reviewing title reports and recorded documents
- Providing exceptional customer service to clients at every level of interaction
- Proofreading the legal documents as required
- Providing support to attorneys in a high volume, time sensitive atmosphere
- Providing regular and timely client status updates, as well as continual follow-up on outstanding documents and or services
- Coordination with title contacts to complete outstanding tasks such as recordings and retrieval of missing documents
- Assisting with check down of closed, active, and hold files including forwarding invoices of foreclosures fees and costs, creating chronologies, and retrieving documents
- Performing 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; the position requires the 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.
Benefits
- Comprehensive compensation package
- Salary commensurate with experience and accomplishments
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
legal document preparationproofreadingemail correspondence managementcase managementinternet researchtitle report reviewcustomer servicemulti-taskingorganizational skillsediting
Soft Skills
verbal communicationwritten communicationcourteous communicationteam-orientedadaptabilityrelationship buildingeffective communicationcustomer service commitmentcourtesythoroughness
Certifications
associate degreeParalegal Certificate