Paralegal - Family Law

Company: McKINNON LEGAL
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Posted on: November 3, 2024

Job Description:

Do you love digging into research and helping people? We're hiring a paralegal to assist our legal team in preparing legal documents, filing motions, coordinating law office activity, and conducting legal research. Applicants should be experienced, highly-organized professionals with great attention to detail. If this sounds like a job you'll love, apply below.

Responsibilities:

--- Draft legal documents, pleadings, and correspondence such as interrogatories, subpoenas, deposition notices, complaints, pretrial orders, legal briefs, and affidavits under the guidance of a lawyer
--- Hold client interviews to gather information about their legal problems
--- Coordinate law office activity, including the drafting subpoenas and coordinating with process servers
--- Help lawyers prepare for trial by preparing and organizing exhibits, assisting with client meetings, filing motions, conducting research on legal articles, and organizing and coordinating witnesses
--- Organize our case filing systems to ensure all documents are properly sorted and easy to locate, and other administrative duties as needed


Qualifications:

--- At least 3 years of experience in legal services under an attorney or lawyer in a law firm setting
--- Strong preference for candidates who have completed a paralegal professional certification or have an advanced paralegal education
--- Must have strong interpersonal skills and talent for writing and grammar
--- Candidates should possess high-level organizational skills, and time-management skills
--- Candidates must have completed an ABA-approved paralegal certificate program such as an Associate's degree or proprietary school program in paralegal studies, Bachelor's degree preferred


About Company:
McKINNON LEGAL's passion lies in bringing about better solutions for the family litigation clients we serve. We aspire to expand the practice to a multiple-lawyer organization to serve more families going through hard times coping with and resolving a myriad of issues, including co-parenting, timesharing, the amicable division of assets acquired during the marriage, support, and other ancillary matters related to the family. We enjoy bringing people out of difficult situations and are grateful when they let us know how our firm has made a huge impact on the trajectory of their futures. We love bringing resolution to acrimonious situations and helping post-divorce parties live better.

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