Are you enthusiastic about helping those who are going through a difficult family situation? Do you have a professional background in Family Law? If that is the case, Klie Law Offices has the ideal job for you! Our company is devoted to helping our clients leave a complicated emotional process in a better place with the help of our top-notch services. We want our clients to know that we are always here to back them up and we'll do anything we can to advocate for their rights.
Our Clarksburg and Morgantown offices are on the lookout for an experienced paralegal to become part of our family law team. The perfect candidate should have prior experience working with family law. We are offering a competitive compensation package that ranges from $40,000 to $57,000.
As part of our compensation, we offer health, dental, and life insurance, paid days off, vacation, 401K matching, as well as a structured bonus.
- Communicate with clients, experts, opposing attorneys, and court staff
- Conduct discovery meetings with clients and draft responses to interrogatories, and requests for admission, and gather documentation for requests for production
- Manage and monitor case progress, deadlines, and important timeframes/milestones
- Review, analyze, and summarize the evidence
- Draft documents such as letters, petitions, answers to petitions, financial statements, motions, responses to motions, discovery requests and responses, orders, notices, mediation statements, indexes, and other various documents needed
- Prepare child support, spousal support, and equitable distribution calculations with assistance from attorneys
- Help identify inconsistencies in financial and other documents provided to us by opposing counsel
- Help attorneys prepare cases for depositions, mediations, hearings, and trials
- Coordinate witness testimony and draft subpoenas
- Research laws and judicial decisions about current as well as past cases
- Assist attorneys with proofreading and finalizing documents for filing
- Assist lawyers in the courtroom
- Maintain records and information in our digital case management system
- Enter billable and non-billable times in the case management system on a daily basis
- You smile when you answer the phone
- You see a possibility for an organization where other people see a mess
- You are persistent
- You are compassionate and want to make a difference
- You are a “go-getter”
- You are able to think outside of the box and have great problem-solving skills
- You are a team player and will never say “That’s not my job!”
- You adapt to change and embrace growth
- You conquer case management systems and the Microsoft Office suite, including but not limited to calendars, e-mail, word processing, and the Internet
- You are an extraordinary juggler of tasks and can change gears quickly
- You are responsible, accountable, and take pride in your work
- You can deal with a boss who is always busy, might not give much direction, might get distracted by new exciting things, and hates dealing with admin tasks
- You take ownership of your mistakes. You learn from them and use constructive feedback as fuel to better yourself
- You have a good eye for detail and impeccable organizational skills
- You like challenges