Bilingual Personal Injury Paralegal

Our client has an urgent need for a Bilingual Personal Injury Paralegal to join their Personal Injury team. If you are dedicated to achieving positive outcomes, maximizing client recovery, and enhancing clients' quality of life, this opportunity is for you! This position is Full Time, and fully on site in Trenton, NJ. This position will start as a temporary position and there is potential for permanent employment if the candidate is a great fit. 

Schedule: Monday – Friday, 9am - 6pm

Pay: $33 - $35/hr.

Please note, only candidates who are Bilingual (Spanish) will be considered for this opportunity!

Responsibilities:

• Provide administrative support to the lawyer to enhance law office effectiveness.

• Communicating with clients, law offices, insurance adjusters, medical offices, and experts.
• Manage Prelitigation and Litigation matters from start to finish.
• Open and close files. (Medical records, police reports, and more)
• Interact and contact existing clients daily.
• Manage a caseload of up to 80.
• Respond to incoming calls and voicemails daily.
• Assist in preparing for depositions, mediations, arbitrations, and trials.
• Prepare and file complaints, motions, briefs, and arbitration statements; prepare special packages, discovery demands, and answers to interrogatories. Review the discovery provided and summarize deposition testimony.
• Assist attorney with depositions calendaring and maintain court dates.
• Compose e-mails and correspondence.
• Monitor deadlines and be proficient in maintaining the law office calendar.
• Prepare disbursement of settlement funds and request checks from the accounting department.
• Meet and greet walk in clients and conduct intakes as needed.
• Answering inquiries from potential new clients (Intake coordination).
• Conduct research as needed.
• Maintain case status notes in our case management system.

Requirements:

• Possess at least five years of working experience as a legal assistant or paralegal in the personal injury area of law.
• Familiarity with New Jersey e-courts and N.J. court rules and legal procedures.
• Computer literacy with proficiency in M.S. Office and Outlook.
• Fluency in the English and Spanish languages, both verbally and in writing
• Excellent administrative and organizational skills
• Must be willing and able to work in a fast-paced office setting.
• Litigation (Personal Injury): 5 years (Required)