Senior Family Law Paralegal

Description

Gravis Law, PLLC is seeking a Senior Family Law Paralegal to join its team in the Boise (Shoreline) office. Gravis Law serves people and communities across the nation by providing uncomplicated access to world-class legal services. Since 2019, Inc. Magazine has recognized Gravis Law as one of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies and for the second year in a row, Gravis Law was ranked No. 1 as the Fastest-Growing Law Firm on its annual Inc. 5000 list.

As a Senior Family Law Paralegal, you will perform a variety of paralegal and administrative tasks in our collaborative team-oriented culture. You will support your local attorney(s) and team by assisting with case planning, development, and management, legal research, client communication, drafting and filing legal documents and making recommendations to attorneys. The successful candidate has a passion for famliy law and is motivated to help create a pleasant workplace. As a Senior Paralegal, you have more knowledge and experience than other support staff. It is expected that you can successfully complete complex job duties.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Senior paralegals perform legal assignments with a higher degree of independence and their responsibilities are greater than other legal assistants within the firm.
• Managing attorney dockets to ensure that all deadlines are met in a timely manner.
• Reviewing files and conferring with attorneys to discuss the status of the file as well as upcoming deadlines.
• Assisting attorneys with preparing for client meetings, depositions, mediations, arbitrations, pre-trial, trial, etc.
• Drafting letters, briefs, memorandums, discovery, and other legal documents.
• Filing and e-filing briefs, memorandums, discovery, and other legal documents.
• Maintaining client files both electronic and physical files.
• Communicating with clients on a very regular basis.
• Conducting legal research and drafting.
• Efficiently providing top-notch legal products and superior service to clients.
• Contributes and maintains SOP, forms, and workflow process improvements.
• Exercise leadership in coordinating the work, training, and mentoring of internal office staff and other admin staff in their area(s) and across other transactional practice areas.
• Covering the front desk and phones when necessary to ensure that clients and other office visitors receive prompt and professional service.
• Maintaining a well-respected reputation amongst clients, opposing counsel, Judges, Court staff, and colleagues.
• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS :

FULL TIME EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AT GRAVIS LAW :

Gravis Law offers a professional work environment, a competitive salary including bonuses, along with generous benefits which generally include :

Wage : $26.00 - $30.00 per hour

Benefits :

Other Compensation : Opportunity to cross train and grow within the organization

Bonus Program : Paralegals are also eligible to participate in the Paralegal Bonus Program.

Equal Pay.

WORK ENVIRONMENT / CONDITIONS / PHYSICAL DEMANDS :

Duties will be performed in a standard office environment. Employees must have the ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with Gravis policy. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will occasionally be required to work weekends, holidays, be on call, and some employees could be required to travel overnight on occasion.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of a Senior Paralegal. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice. These are considered essential duties and are illustrative of those job tasks that are fundamental. Employees may be required to perform additional related duties as may be assigned by management. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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