Legal Assistant – Judgement
McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Fort Lauderdale • Florida • 🇺🇸 United States
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JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Drafting, preparing, and formatting memoranda, correspondence, assignments, and various other legal documents.
- Fielding calls from borrowers, clients, 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 clients systems.
- Communicating with process servers on status of service and ensuring service completion.
- 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.
- Performing other duties and responsibilities as needed.
Requirements
- At least 2-3 years of experience as a legal assistant or paralegal within a foreclosure firm.
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Must be committed to providing exceptional customer service.
- Ability to communicate courteously and effectively with borrower, 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.
- Familiarity with case and document management software.
- Experience with client systems such as LPS, SSE Portal, Tempo, Vendorscape and others is preferred.
- Good understanding of the legal process surrounding foreclosure preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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